24 Mr. A. Murray's Monograph uf the genus Catops. 



broad as long, nearly of the breadth of the elytra, narrower in 

 front than behind, the broadest part being decidedly behind the mid- 

 dle; the posterior angles are obtuse and rounded, and the sides are 

 neither spread out nor bent up, so that the moderately dense and 

 very jinelij punctate upper side is entirely smooth. The colour of 

 the thorax is dark ferruginous brown, darker in the middle. 

 Individuals with the thorax entirely blackish occur rarely. The 

 elytra are generally ferruginous or testaceous, sometimes chestnut 

 and sometimes pitchy brown ; they are finely and densely punc- 

 tate ; at the base very feebly, towards the apex more distinctly 

 finely punctate striate. The legs arc ferruginous hrown, the 

 middle tibice of the males are bent strongly inwards, the posterior 

 trochanters are not distant at the base, and arc armed on the 

 inner side with a short strong pointed tooth. 



This species is readily distinguished by the form of the thorax, 

 narrowest in front and widest behind. The other particulars 

 which I have printed in italics are characters also easily seized. 



It is spi'cad over the most part of Europe, in Prussia, Austria, 

 Saxony, Switzerland, France, Sweden, and Britain, but is every- 

 where scarce. 



The only exotic species belonging to this group which I know 

 of is C. lateritius, Menet. (7. Frankenhaueseri, Mann., would also 

 fall into this group, if it is retained in the genus at all, but its 

 pectinate antennae seem to me to require us to create a separate 

 genus to receive it. 



C. lateritius, Men. 



Catops lateritius, Menetries, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sciences, St. Petersburg, 

 6 ser. vi. (1841)), p. 52. 



" Oblongo-ovatus, pallide rufo-ferrugineus, breviter griseo-pubes- 

 cens ; antennis tenuibus longitudine dimidii corporis; thorace 

 transverso subdepresso posticc latiore angulis obtusis, late- 

 ribus subreflexis ; elytris creberrime punctulatis, substriatis, 

 stria suturali profunde exarata. 



" Long. 2 lin., lat. | lin. 



" Near C. agilis, Illig., but proportionately narrower, the thorax 

 is nmch less broad and flatter, and the antennae are much longer. 



" Described from two individuals taken at Novaia Alcxan- 

 drovskaia*.'' 



[To be continued.] 



* Menetries in loc. cit. 



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