Mr. A. Murray's Monograph of the genus Catops. 317 



tellum is large and acutely triangular. The eWtra are very long, 

 being five times the length of the thorax, and taper towards the 

 apex in a wedge-shape. They are very deeply transversely 

 wrinkled, with a profound sutural stria, and seven other striae 

 less deeply impressed but still quite distinct. The apex of each 

 elytron is somewhat rounded. The margins of the elytra are 

 broadly inflexed, leaving a prominent lateral ridge. 



Female. The above description will apply also to the female, 

 with the following alterations : — She is much shorter and com- 

 paratively broader, and the elytra are not so disproportioned 

 in their length. The antennre are shorter and thicker, the base 

 and apex much paler than the middle. The impressed striae on 

 the elytra are much less evident, but the transverse strigations 

 are equally distinct. 



No species that I have seen has the transverse strigations so 

 strongly marked. It may at first sight be mistaken for a very • 

 large pracox, but these strigations and the almost dispro- 

 portionate length and wedge-shape of the elytra in the male 

 distinguish it readily. 



I found three males and one female under this name, marked 

 as coming from Portugal, in the collection of the Count Dejean ; 

 the kindness of M. le Marquis de Laferte Senectere having 

 placed that collection in my hands for examination. 



36. C brunneus, Dahl., Sturm. 



Catops brunneus, Knoch, Dahl. Col. et Lepid. 30 ; Sturm, Deutschl. Fn. 

 xiv. 38. 19. t. 278. f. a. A; Redt. Fa. Aust. 145. 16 ; Kraatz, Stett. 

 Ent. Zeit. xiii. 439. 28. 



Ovatus, piceo-brunneus, fumatus ; capite fusco ; an- Fig. 37- 

 tennis longioribus, obsolete elavatis, ferrugineis ; 

 thorace transverse, basi latiore, margine postico 

 recto, angulis posticis obtusis ; elytris brunneis. 

 Long. 1 lin. 



As large as the preceding species {C.pracox), 

 but of a wholly different shape. It is broad-oval, 

 moderately flat, behind broadly truncate, ferru- 

 ginous-brown and shining. The antennae are as 

 long as the head and thorax, thin, gradually some- 

 what thickened towards the apex, the terminal joint roundish, 

 pubescent, the eighth jonit short. The head broad, pitchy- 

 black, finely punctate; the parts of the mouth ferruginous-red. 

 The thorax is large, broad, as broad at the base as the elytra, 

 only slightly narrowed in front ; the sides lightly rounded ; the 

 posterior angles obtuse ; the basal margin straight ; it is more- 

 over slightly convex, somewhat darker on the back, very finely 

 and densely punctate, and thinly clothed with a fine yellowish- 



