Mr. A. Murray's Monograph of the genus Catops. 17 



It has gouge-chisel-sha])c(l len£itlioiio(l trochanters in the hinder 

 legs. 



" This species has up to this time been collected in the island 

 of Rugen (Erichson!j, Konigsberg (Hargen !), Leipzig (v. Kicsen- 

 wetter !), S. Wehlcn (Markel !), and Diisseldorf (Hildebrand !). 

 It has also been taken in Austria. For the most part it is 

 found under leaves. C. angustatus, Fab., is not rarely found 

 under stones." 



Var. C. cisteloides, Frohl. 



" Luperus cisteloides, Frcilil. Naturf. 28. 25. 3. t. 2. f. 50. 



" Catops castaneus, Sturm, Ins. xiv. !'. .3. t. 27-3. a. A; Heer, Fn. IIclv. i. 



378. 2; Redt. Fn. Aiist. 143. 4 ; Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xii. 284. 4. 

 " cisteloides, Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiii. 404 ; Fairra. & Laboulb. 



Faun. Ent. Frang. i. 299. 



" Oblongus, nigro-piceus ; thorace nigro-piceo, ante medium vix 

 latiore, angulis posticis obtusiusculis ; clytris substriatis, piceis 

 sen castaneis. 



" Long. 2~ lin. 



" Mas, trochanteribus posticis acuminatis seu latere inferiore 

 deute magis minusve curvato extante. 



" This is readily distinguished from the C. angustatus, Fab,, 

 by the darker colour and the form of the thorax. The antennae 

 are nearly as long as the body*, reddish brown, always darker 

 towards the point. First joint strong, third distinctly longer 

 than the contiguous joints, the fourth somewhat shorter than the 

 third ; fifth, sixth and seventh equal in length, eighth nearly half 

 as long as the seventh, ninth somewhat shorter than the seventh, 

 tenth somewhat shorter than the ninth ; the last joint almost 

 twice as long as the preceding, sharply acuminate. The head is 

 black-brown, extremely finely and closely punctate. The thorax 

 is formed like that of C. angustatus, Fab., but the sides both 

 before and behind are nearly equally strongly rounded, so that 

 the greatest breadth is not before the middle ; the margin is by 

 far less raised up, less broadly spread out, so that the line on 

 each side of the thorax is both shorter and less deeply marked ; 

 the upper side is as a i^ule entirely pitchy black, extremely deeply and 

 finely {fine-shagreen) punctured ; the deep middle line is frequently 

 wanting. The elytra are moderately arched, lightly striated, 

 pitchy black, more rarely pitchy brown. The legs are ferruginous 

 brown. 



" It is spread over the whole of middle and southern Eui-ope, 

 and not rare. In France (according to Latreille) ; in Lombardy 



* This is not correctly expressed. The antennae are longer than the half 

 of the bodv, but cannot be said to be " nearly as long as the body." They 

 are in no degree longer than the antennaj of the other varieties. 



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