Mr. A. Murray's Monograph of the genus Catops. 457 



orchideous root used in medicine; but neither of this nor of the 

 Bariyalbhera seeds (p. 285) from Chhinachhin in Yumila, a 

 province east of Kumaon, have I any identification to bi'ing 

 forward. 



XXXIX, — Monograph of the genus Catops. 

 By Andrew Murray, Edinburgh. 



[Concluded from p. 404.] 



Exotic Species. 

 56. C. suturalis (mihi). 



Affinis C. sericeo, sed elongatior, lateribus minus rec- 

 tis, et thorace forma breviore ; elytris longioribus. 

 Long. 1^ hn. 



Fuscous; head and thorax with fulvous sericeous 

 pubescence ; elytra ferruginous-brown, with the ante- 

 rior half of the sutural margin and the margins of 

 the elytra darker; inflexed margins of elytra and 

 margins of under side of thorax clear ferruginous, 

 remainder of under side pitchy-black; legs ferru- 

 ginous. Antennae with base ferruginous, club and apex dark; 

 first joint large and long; second not so long ; third and fourth 

 of nearly the same length ; fifth shorter than fourth ; sixth 

 shorter than seventh ; seventh large and broad ; eighth very 

 small ; three last nearly of the same size. Thorax faintly trans- 

 versely strigose, posterior angles obtuse. Elytra deeply trans- 

 versely striguse. Scutellum elongate, Sutural stria shortened, 

 joining the suture at about one-third from the apex. Elytra 

 truncate at the apex; pubescence on elytra darker than on 

 thorax. 



This species has a great resemblance to C. sericciis, but differs 

 from it in the following particulars. In general outline it is 

 scarcely broader in front than behind, while sericeus is usually 

 markedly so. The thorax begins to round-in towards the head 

 almost immediately from the base forward, while in sericeus it 

 does not begin to turn inwards till about the middle of the 

 thorax. Scutellum more elongate than in sericeus. The length 

 of the elytra is 2] times that of the thorax, while in sericeus 

 it is not so much as twice that length. The elytra also are not 

 so broadly truncate at the apex. 



Described from a specimen in IM. Chevrolat's collection re- 

 ceived under this name from M. Motschoiilsky. Locality not 

 mentioned ; supposed to be from Mongolia, 



