THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SECOND SERIES.] 



" per litora spargite museum, 



Naiades, et circura i-itreos coiisidite foutes : 

 Hollice virgineo teneros h'lC carpite floras : 

 Floribus et pictum, div£B, replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o Nymphae Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 

 V'cllite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, l)e<B pelagi, et pingui coiu-hylia succo." 



N. Parthenii Gianneitafii Kcl. 1. 



No. 10.3. JULY 18.5<>. 



I. — Monograph of the genus Catops. 

 By Andrew Murray, Edinburgh*. 



Notwithstanding Mr. Spcnce's able Monograph of the 

 British species of this genus, and the excellent works of Erichsou, 

 Sturm, Redtenbacher, Kraatz and others, its study is still attended 

 with so much difficulty, that I imagine the following attempt to 

 clear up the synonymy, and to make the species more easily 

 recognizable, will be welcome, particularly to British entomo- 

 logists. 



When I commenced my examination of the genus, with a 

 view to publishing the results, I applied to my entomological 

 friends for their assistance both in the way of information and 

 communication of specimens, an application which was cordially 

 responded to. I have thus had the advantage of carefully ex- 

 amining Mr. Waterhouse's collection, which I believe to be the 

 best representative of the Spencian species extant ; — the deter- 

 mination having been submitted to and approved by Mr. Spence 

 himself, with this qualification, that he (Mr. Spence) had de- 

 scribed some of his species from specimens belonging to others, 

 to whom they had been returned, so that the type specimens 



* Read before the Roval Phvsical Societv of Edinburgh, Jan. 185G. 

 Ann. ^- Mag. N. Hist. " Ser. 2. Vol. xvi'ii. 1 



