Mr. A. Murray's Monograph of the genus Catops. 397 



A good deal smaller than the preceding (C, monilis), to which 

 it has considerable resemblance, but is more elongate in form. 

 The antcnnfB are not quite so thick ; the joints do not continue 

 thin, short and slender from the second to the sixth, but go on 

 increasing in breadth from the second to the seventh ; the 

 second and third are nearly of equal length ; the fourth and fifth 

 are each shorter than the third, and gradually but slightly 

 increase in breadth ; they are all of nearly the same length ; 

 the sixth is shorter than the fifth, but not very minute ; the 

 seventh is the largest joint in the antenna ; the eighth is minute, 

 but not nearly so much so as in monilis ; the ninth is as broad but 

 shorter than the seventh ; the tenth is a little narrower than the 

 ninth, and the eleventh a little narrower than the tenth, otherwise 

 they are nearly of the same size. The antennae are brown, with 

 the exception of the two first joints which are clear ferruginous, 

 and the three last which become gradually paler to the tip. The 

 head and mouth are broad ; the former is rugosely punctate and 

 darker than the rest of the body. The thorax is short, darkest 

 in the middle, transversely rugose. The elytra are very distinctly 

 transversely strigose; there is a sutural stria impressed on them. 

 The scutellum is small, elongate triangular, depressed, and darker 

 than the elytra. The whole body is covered with a dense fuscous 

 pubescence of the same colour throughout, but throwing a 

 reflexion like a lighter band across the elytra towards the apex 

 when viewed in certain lights. The under side is of the same 

 colour as the upper. The legs are paler ; they are very distinctly 

 spinose, a character which is found in other species, but which, 

 from being very marked here, I have taken to furnish a suitable 

 name to the species. The middle tibiae arc a little bent. In the 

 males the anterior tarsi are widened, but the middle tarsi are 

 not. 



Found at Caraccas by M. Salle, and presented to me by 

 M. Chevrolat. 



Group III. 



Mesosternum heeled ; middle tarsi alike in both sexes. 



1st Subdivision. Body polished and shining; the elytra not 

 transversely strigose. 



49. C. lucidiis, Kraatz. 



C. lucidus, Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiii. 4.'39. 30. 



" Oblongo-ovatus, nigro-])iceus, nitidus ; antennis pedibusque fer- 

 rugineis ; thorace transverso, basi latiore la)vi ad angulos ob- 

 tusos utrinque distincte sinuato ; elytris flavo-testaceis, apice 

 piccis, passim minus profunde punctatis. 



" Long. If lin." 



