1 10 Mr. A. Murray's Monograph of //ir f/fiius Catops. 



distinct, and that C. fnliginosus may have been described iVoiu 

 other speeiinens, ah hough tliey are not now in the collection in 

 the Berlin Museum. 



Still, in the lace of M. Kraat//s deliberate o|)inion, fortitied as 

 it. is by the specimens in the collection of the IJerlin Royal 

 Museum, and also doubtless by the traditions wliich must re- 

 uwin of Erichsou's own views in a place which has only so 

 recently been deprived of him, I have not ventured to carry my 

 difference of opinion further than to submit the above suggestions 

 for the consideration of the reader. 



1 have only to add with reference to this species (C. nigri- 

 caiis, Sp.), that the readiest distinction between it and such 

 others (except C. picipes) as are likely to be mistaken for it, is 

 furnished by the longish almost subtiliform ferruginous antenna*. 

 In my observations on C. picipes 1 have already noticed the 

 prinid -facie differences existing between it and this species. 



Widely distributed, being found in Scotland and England, 

 France, Germany, and most of Europe, but nowhere common. 



11. C. coraciniLS, Kellner. 



Catops coracinm, Kelln. Stett. Ent. Zeit. vii. 177- '■i ; lletlt. I'n. xYust. 771 ; 

 Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiii. 4^1. 12. 



Ovatus, niger ; antcnnis obsolete elavatis, rufo- 

 piceis ; thoracc ti-ansverso, basi latiore, angulispos- Fig. K). 

 ticis distincte rectis; clytris obsoletissiine striatis. 

 Long. l,j lin. 



This has a considerable resemblance to C. nigri- 

 cans, Spence, in the form of the elytra and antennae, 

 but is smaller, and more continuous in its outline : 

 the hinder angles of the thorax are very slightly acuminate, so 

 slightly as to be scarcely observable except by minute exami- 

 nation : the elytra are indistinctly striated. The antennaj are as 

 long as the head and thorax, slightly thickened towards the 

 point, in some individuals a little thicker than in others, reddish 

 brown ; the club usually blackish, but the dej)th of colour varies. 

 The head and thorax are black, densely and finely punctate, 

 tvith a fine short yellowish pubescence. The thoi-ax is almost as 

 broad as the elytra, broadest in the middle, straight at the base, 

 the anterior angles rounded, and the posterior angles right-angled 

 at the very angle ; that is, when looked at superficially the angle 

 would appear obtuse, but when examined more carefully there 

 apj)cars a very short space of right angle before the thorax takes 

 its cui-ved outline : the scutellum is proportionally large, and 

 clothed with the same coloured i)ube.scence as the thorax. The 

 cij^ra are oval, densely and finely punctate, black, clothed with 

 an ashen grey pubescence or bloom indistinctly stiiatcd : no yel- 



