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



C. t7-istis*= ? 



C. festinausf= ? {possibly grandicollis, Erich.). 



b. Thorax with the basal marc/in straight near the angles. 



C. chrysomeloides = chrysomeluides, Panz., Lat., Sturm. 



C. LeachiiX^^tristis, Erich. 



C. Kjrbii^ = rotundicollis, Kelhicr. 



C. MarshaniiW = ? (either morio, Erich, or nigrita, Erich.) 



C. dissimulator^ = ? (probably morio, Erich.) 



*** Antenna clavate ; posterior angles of thorax acute ; elytra not 

 striated. 

 {Anterior thighs alike in both sexes, the middle tarsi with the 

 first joint rarely dilated.) 



C. villosa=sericeus, Fab. {villosa, Lat.) {Ptomaphagus trun- 

 catus, Steph.) 



C. velox=velox, Erich. 



C.fumata*'^-= ? (probably scitulus, Erich.) 



C. Watsoni=fumatus, Erich. 



C. anisutomoides = anisotojnoides, Sturm. 



C. lFilkinii=prcecox, Erich. 



C. brunneus= Colon {Mylachus) hrunneus, auct. 



* No species has puzzled British entomologists more to identify than 

 this. The prominence given by Spence and Stephens to the clavate form 

 of the antennae, and Spence describing it as bearing a close general resem- 

 blance to chrijsomeloides, has had the effect of making most of them 

 attempt to find a representative for it out of narrow-clubbed and small 

 varieties of chrysomeloides — and accordingly it is generally so represented 

 in British collections — an en-or which I have seen continental entomo- 

 logists fall into in like manner. I cannot ascertain to my own satisfaction 

 what the species was which Spence had in view in describing this. Jlr. 

 Waterhouse had adopted the usual British view, but Stephens has his 

 tristis wholly represented hy fusctis, Erichs. 



t This s|)ecies is stated by Erichson and Kraatz to be a synonym of 

 fascus, but from what I have already said in the note upon sericea, it ap- 

 pears to me that that synonym is ])reoccupied. Mr. Waterhouse has not 

 this name represented in his collection. In Stephens's it is represented by 

 two specimens oi Irislis and one oi grandicoUis. Little can be made out 

 from Spence's ilescription. 



+ Represented wholly by tristis in Mr. Waterhouse's collection, and in 

 Stephens's collection by two sj)ecimens of tristis and two of grandicollis. 



§ Represented by rotundicollis both in Waterhouse's and Stephens's col- 

 lections. 



II Mr. Waterhouse has this represented by morio ; in Stephens's col- 

 lection it is represented wholly by chrysomeloides. 



T Given as a synonym of morio by Erichson. Represented by tristis 

 in Waterhouse's collection, and by three s])ccimens oi grandicollis and one 

 of nigrita in Stephens's collection. 



** This name (fumata) has been universally applied to the species com- 

 monly known as the fumatus of Erich, and other authors, but a comparison 



