Mr. A. Murray's Monoyraph of the genus Catops. 461 



the body. The tliorax forms a continuous or nearly continuous 

 line with the elytra ; its posterior angles do not project behind ; 

 both thorax and elytra are seen under a powerful lens to be very 

 finely though distinctly transversely strigose. The elytra are not 

 truncate, although they are rounded rather rapidly at the apex. 

 The scutelluni is not visible. The sutural stria is distinct at the 

 base, but it draws closer to the suture as it proceeds to the apex, 

 and is lost before it reaches it. Under side and legs ferruginous- 

 brown. 



From Caraecas. I received this species from M. Deyrolle, 

 under the manuscript name of cequinoctialis ; but the advantage 

 of having a name bearing reference to some particular character, 

 when that can be had, is so obvious, that I am sure that that ex- 

 cellent entomologist will excuse my not adopting the name he 

 had destined for it. 



63. C. australis, Erichs. 



Catops australis, Erichson, "Wiegm. Arch. (1842) p. 243. 



Mesosterno earinato, niger, nigro-pubescens ; thorace Fig. 56. 



elytrisque transversim strigosis. 

 Long. 1^ lin. 



Oval, lightly convex, black, with black pubescence. 

 Antennfe of the length of the head and thorax, the 

 apex slightly thickened, the eighth joint narrower 

 than those next it, black, piceous at the base. Thorax 

 about the same breadth as the elytra, with the sides 

 lightly rounded, the posterior angles slightly projecting obliquely 

 behind, nearly right-angled ; the base subsinuate on each side, 

 finely transversely strigose. Elytra transversely feebly strigose 

 the strigations rather widely separated, impressed with a sutural 

 stria, rounded at the apex. Legs concolorous, tarsi piceous, the 

 anterior lightly dilated at the base in the males. Mesosterauni 

 slightly keeled. 



This species seems to come between strigosus, Kraatz, and 

 sericeus. 



It is found in Tasmania, and is the only species yet recorded 

 from the southern part of the hemisphere. 



Genus Catoptrichus, mihi. 



Antennae of eleven joints, the last eight of which are strongly 

 serrated in the males, somewhat less so in the females; the three 

 first are slender; the eighth joint is very slightly, if at all, nar- 

 rower or shorter than those on each side of it. In other respects 

 the characters do not difiFer from those of Catops. 



