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named by him hicidus, and described from a single specimen 

 found in Dalmatia. 



The fifth section has received the greatest increase. Hitherto 

 it had only contained the two species sericeus and vancornis, but 

 Kraatz has added three new species, strigosus, validus, and colo- 

 noides. I have not seen validus, but the others appear to me good 

 and distinct s])ccies. 



Catopsimorphus orientalis he retains as forming a separate 

 genus. 



The number of exotic species which have been described is 

 not great. 



Three species from Algeria, C. marginicollis, C. celer and C. 

 rufipennis have been described in 18 i9 by M. Lucas in the 'Ex- 

 ploration de PAlgerie.' 



M. Motschoulsky described a species from Georgia, C. pusilhis, 

 in the Bulletins of the Imperial Society of Moscow for 1840. 



Kolenati described in the ' Meletemata Ent.' a species, C./un- 

 gicola, from the Russian Province of Elisabethopoleos. 



Menetries described a species (C pallidns) from Balcon in the 

 Caucasus in his ' Catalogue raisonne des Objets de Zoologie re- 

 cueillis dans un voyage au Caucase,^ &c. He also described in 

 the ]\Iem. Acad. Imp. Sciences de St. Petersbourg, 6 ser. vi. 1849, 

 two species, C. lateritius and C. fuscipes, found at Novai'a Alex- 

 androvskaia. 



One species, C. australis, from Van Diemen^s Land, has been 

 described by Erichson in Wiegmann's 'Archiv fiir Naturge- 

 schichte,' 1842. 



The North American species hitherto described are C. basi- 

 laris, C. opacus and C. simplex, described by Say in the Journal 

 of the Academy of Philadelphia, vols. iii. & v. ; C. Spenciana de- 

 scribed by Kirby in the ' Fauna Bor. Americ' ; C. cadaverinus, 

 C. Frankenhaitseri, C. cryptophagoides, C. brunnipennis, and C. 

 hiridipennis described by INIannerheim in the ' Bull, of the Imp. 

 Soc. of Mosc' in 1843, 1852 & 1853; C. terminans described 

 by Leconte in Agassiz's ' Lake Superior/ and C. clavicornis, C. ca- 

 lif amicus, C. strigosus, C. consobrinus, C^oblitus and C. parasitus, 

 described by the same author in the ' Proceedings of the Aca- 

 demy of Philadelphia,' 1853. 



So much for the past history of the genus. We shall now 

 proceed to the examination of the different species seriatim. 



In doing so I shall tirst take the European species of each 

 section, and then give the descriptions of the exotic species. I 

 shall not attempt to intercalate the latter among the European 

 species, because there are a number which I have not seen. I 

 shall content myself with classing them according to their 

 geographical distribution. 



