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the thorax. Elytra oval, a little broader than the thorax, marked 

 with deep longitudinal striai formed by large deep punctures, 

 and tolerably strongly punctate in the intervals between the 

 striae ; their colour is of a deep brown, marked with a large fer- 

 ruginous blotch at each of the anterior angles ; they are covered 

 by a reddish adpressed and tolerably dense pubescence. Under 

 side of the body finely punctate, blackish, with the edges of the 

 abdominal segments ferruginous. Legs of this latter colour ; 

 posterior thighs partly brown. 



" Upon flowers in the month of June. Arcadia*." 

 This appears to be the proper place to take in this species. 

 I have not seen it. Brulle did not give a figure of it in his 

 work, and on inquiry at Paris I find that his specimens must 

 have been eaten by the larva of the Antkreni so destructive to 

 collections on the continent. The only trace or record of the 

 species, therefore, so far as I know, is his description, of which 

 the above is a translation, and which seems to me to show con- 

 siderable affinity to the preceding species [spadiceus, St.). 



4. C. agilis, Illig. 



Ptomaphagus agilis, Illig. Kaf. Pr. 882. 



Choleva agilis, Spence, Linn. Trans, xi. 1402. 



Catops fuscus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. i. 281. 5. 



Choleva testacea, Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. xi. 28. 2. 



Catops agilis, Erich. Kaf. d. Mark Brand, i. 234. 2; Sturm, Ins. xiv. 7- 



2. tab. 272. n. N ; Heer, Fn. Helv. i. 37.9. 3 ; Redt. Fu. Aust. 1.33. 3 ; 



Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiii. 405 ; Fairm. & Laboulb. Fn. Ent. Franc. 



i. 300. 



Oblongo-ovatus ; nigro-piceus, vel testaceo-piceus ; Fig. 5. 



thorace transversa, postice latiore ; elytris sub- 



striatis, antennis pedibusque ferrugineis. 

 Long. 2| lin. 



Mas, tibiis mediis curvatis ; trochanteribus posticis 

 inferiore dente curvato acuminato armatis. 



Shorter and somewhat broader than C. angustatus. Fab., not 

 very constant in colour, the darkest examples ferruginous brown 

 with lighter antenna?. The antennas are scarcely half so long as 

 the body ; the third joint almost twice as long as the second ; 

 the fourth, fifth and sixth are nearly equally long, the remainder 

 (seven to eleven) are somewhat stronger than the jjrcceding; 

 the eighth is half as long as the ninth ; the ninth equal to the 

 tenth ; the last joint is a half longer than the preceding joint, 

 obtusely acuminate. The head is brown, extremely fine and 

 tolerably sparingly punctured. The thorax is almost twice as 



* BruUc in loc. cit. 



