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



low pubescence along the base of the elytra. The legs are reddish 

 brown. 



Its small size, shorter and more thickened antennae, more 

 uniform and less bellied outline distinguish this species from 

 picipes, Fab. Its shorter and more thickened antenna, the 

 yellow pubescence on the tliorax and scutcllum, want of depres- 

 sions on the disk of the thorax, and tlie want of the produced 

 ])osterior angles of the thorax distinguish it from the smaller 

 specimens of nigricans, Spence. Its antennse only slightly 

 thickened, as well as its smaller size, distinguish it from chn/- 

 someloides, Spence. From most of those which have a decided 

 yellow pubescence on the thorax it is distinguished by the want 

 of yellow pubescence along the base of the elytra. This separates 

 it from fristis, Panz., including uhdundnalis, liosenh., mnntivagus, 

 Heer, longuhts, Kelln., grandicullis, Erichs., and rotundicoUis, 

 Kelln., and from neglectus, Kraatz, and nigrita, Erichs. Its 

 yellow pubescence also is finer, shorter and more delicate than 

 in any of these. The only remaining species with which it may 

 be confounded is morio, Erichs., but the more elongate shape 

 and slenderer form of morio and 'the difference in the posterior 

 angles of the thorax distinguish it. Morio has not got the 

 slight acumination which coraciniis has at these angles, and in 

 it they are gently obtuse instead of being at first right-angled. 

 The thorax in morio is also flatter. 



It is found in Scotland and England, and in various parts of 

 the Continent. 



12. C. morio. Fab. 



Catops morio, Fab. Syst. El. ii. 5G-1. 4. 



Clioleva dissimulator, Spence, Liun. Trans, xi. 150. 11. 



Catops sericeus, Gyll- Ins. Suec. iv. 31.*3. 1-2. 



morio, Erichs. Kaf. d. M. Br. i. 240. 11 ; Sturm, Dcutschl. Fn. xiv. 



29. 14. t. 270. tig. 6. B; Ileer, Faun. Ilelv. i^S2. 14; Redt. Faun. 



Aust. 144. l;^; Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiii.43l. 13; Fairm.& Laboulb. 



Fn. Ent. Fran9. i. 301. 8. 



Oblongo-ovalis, niger; antennis obsolete clavatis, 



articulis duobus primis ultiinoque et pcdibus ^' 



ferrugineis ; thorace basi apiceque latitudine 

 subaequali, angulis posticis obtusis; elytrisob- 

 soletissime striatis. 



Long. 1| lin. 



The antenna are as long as the head and 

 thorax, imperceptibly but not greatly thickened 

 towards the point ; the first two joints are ferru- 

 ginous yellow, the rest, with the exception of the 

 last, blackish, the last joint yellow : rarely the whole antenuaj 

 are ferruginous, which Erichson observes is the case with the 

 examples in Fubricius's collection. The body is black ; the 



