Mr. A. Murray's Monograph of the genus Catops. 399 



" One example from Kiibr, probably found m Dalmatia*." 

 I am unable to give any description of the species from Meso- 

 potamia above referred to by M. Kraatz. 



50. C. a'ljptophagoides, IMannerheim. 

 Catops cryptophagoides, Mann. Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. 1852, pt. 2. p. 333. 



" Oblongo-ovatus, convexus, rufo-ferrugineus, nitidus, glaber- 

 rimusj antcnnis extrorsum valde incrassatis pilosis, articulo 

 octavo prjecedeute multo uiinore ; thorace laivi, antrorsum ro- 

 tundato, angulis posticis supra elytra rotundato-productis ; 

 elvtris disperse punctatis, subrugulosis. 



" Long, f lin., lat. ^ lin.f 



I have not seen this species. M. Pippingskold collected it 

 in the island of Sitka under a stone. 



Mannerheim states that in form it comes very near the genus 

 ('olon, but he rather referred it to Coto/js from the structure of 

 the antennrc, although at the same time differing from both by 

 the polished smoothness of its body. From this indication it 

 should probably rank beside lucidus, Kraatz, and I have accord- 

 ingly placed it in this subdivision. 



2nd Subdivision. Body not polished and shining ; ehjtra trans- 

 versely strigose. 



51. C. strigosus, Kraatz. 

 Catops strigosus, Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiii. p. 44\. 31. Fig. 4(). 



Ovatus, rufo-ferrugineus ; autennis longioribus, 

 obsolete clavatis, ferrugineis; thorace trans- 

 verso, angulis posticis fere acuminatis ; elytris 

 substriatis, evidenter transversim strigosis, apice 

 acuminatis. 



Long, li lin. 



The antenna? arc slender, entirely reddish-brown ; first, second 

 and third equal in length ; fifth scarcely longer than those on 

 each side of it, half as large as the first joint ; seventh somewhat 

 longer and stouter than the foregoing, equal to the ninth and 

 tenth ; eighth scarcely half as long and a little thinner than the 

 seventh ; eleventh somewhat longer than the tenth, moderately 

 sharply acuminate. The head is red-brown, densely and finely 

 punctate. The thorax is nearly 2~ times as long as broad ; at 

 the base it is of the same breadth as the elytra ; it is gradually 

 narrowed towards the front, gently rounded on the sides ; the 



* Kraatz in loc. cit. t Mannerhcim in loc. cit. 



