220 Mr. T. V. Wollaston on Additions to Madeiran Coleoptera. 



antice evanescente impresso ; antennis pedibusque longiusculis 



robustis rufo-ferrugineis. 

 Long. corp. lin. If. 



Mas tarsorum anteriorum articulo basilari magno dilatato. 

 Habitat elevata humida Maderse sylvaticae, in " Boa 'Ventura " 



meuse Decembri A.D. 1858 a meipso repertus. Catops valde 



indigenus, distinctus, et in honorem cl. A. Murray, armigeri, 



hujus generis investigatoris felicissimi, dicatus. 



C. subelliptic, slightly depressed, dark piceous-black, and 

 densely clothed with a coarse decumbent pile, which is yellow- 

 ish on the head and prothorax, but darker on the elytra. Head 

 and prothorax slightly shining ; the former distinctly, and the 

 latter (which is siuuated along its hinder margin) minutely 

 punctulated. Elytra widest a little behind their middle, and 

 rather acuminated at their apex ; each with an impressed stria 

 near the suture, tolerably deep posteriorly, but vanishing in 

 front. Limbs rufo-ferruginous, and rather long and robust : 

 antennae a good deal thickened towards their apex, and with 

 their eighth joint very distinctly smaller than the neighbouring- 

 ones ; tibia (at any rate in the males, for which alone I can answer) 

 a good deal curved. 



Male with the basal joint of the four anterior feet much en- 

 larged, being greatly dilated, and slightly lengthened, in the 

 front pair, and greatly lengthened, and slightly dilated, in the 

 intermediate ones. 



A single specimen (and that a male) of the present Catops 

 was taken by myself at a lofty elevation in Madeira proper (just 

 below the Boca das Torrinhas, at the head of the Boa Ventura, 

 some 4000 feet above the sea), whilst encamped there, with 

 the Rev. R. T. Lowe, during December 1858. It belongs to 

 another section of the genus than its Madeiran ally, the C. 

 velox ; and, apart from the slightly different proportions of its 

 antennal and tarsal joints, and its more evidently curved tibiae, 

 it may be at once recognized from that insect by, inter alia, its 

 larger size, and longer and more robust limbs ; by its more elliptic 

 outline, and less convex surface; by its posteriorly sinuated 

 prothorax, and anteriorly evanescent sutural stria3; as well as 

 by its coarser pubescence and more acuminated elytra. I have 

 dedicated it to Andrew Murray, Esq., of Edinburgh, whose 

 Monograph of Catops has rendered so great a service in deter- 

 mining the numerous species of that somewhat obscure and 

 difficult genus. And I may add that I lately forwarded to him 

 the unique Madeiran specimen described above, and have re- 

 ceived his assurance that it is perfectly distinct from any species 

 with which he is acquainted, adding, " at the same time I have 

 net much doubt as to its affinities : it certainly does not belong 



