Fig. 58. 



Mr. A. Murray's Monograph of the genus Cutops. 403 



membranous, pretty deeply emargiuate. Labial palpi with three 

 cylindrical joints, the last smallest. Tarsi with five joints, the 

 anterior and middle probably dilated in the male. The facies of 

 this genus is couij)letely analogous to that of Catops. It diiFers 

 from it principally in the form of the antennae. AYe know 

 nothing of its mode of life*." 



1. C. orientalis, Aube. 



Catopsimorphuft orientalis, Aube, Ann. Soc. Eut. Fr. 2 ser. viii. 325. 



" Ovalis, convexiusculus, niger, griseo-pubescens ; 

 antennis, ore, elytris pedibusque ferrugineis; 

 thorace antice angustato, angulis omnibus ro- 

 tundatis. — 3i mdl. 



" Head black, somewhat brilliant, tolerably 

 broad, very finely punctate and slightly pubescent. 

 Labrum, palpi and antennae testaceous ; the latter 

 with the first joint longish, cylindrical ; the second 

 almost globular ; the remainder transverse, flat- 

 tened and gradually increasing in size to the last, 

 which terminates in a point ; the eighth scarcely 

 shorter than the seventh and ninth. Thorax 

 black, pubescent and finely punctate and reticu- 

 lated, more than one and a half times broader than long, much 

 narrower in front than behind, cut almost straight at the apex 

 and the base, very broadly rounded at the sides ; the anterior 

 and posterior angles obtuse and rounded. Elytra as broad as 

 the thorax at the base, about one and a half times longer than 

 broad ; broadly rounded behind ; ferruginous, less finely punctate 

 and reticulated than the thorax ; pubescent and marked with 

 a deeply impressed stria on each side of the suture. Under side 

 of body black, with the extremity of the abdomen somewhat 

 ferruginous. Legs ferruginous; thighs slightly brownf.^^ 



Dr. Aube mentions that he had two individuals of this species, 

 both taken in the neighbourhood of Constantinople. He sup- 

 poses them to be both females from their having all their tarsi 

 simple. 



Since the first part of this paper was in print, I have had an 

 opportunity of carefully examining the specimens in the collec- 

 tion of the Count Dejean, now belonging to the Marquis de 

 Laferte Senectere, who kindly placed them in my hands for 

 that purpose; and it may be desirable that I should state the 



* Aube in loc. cit. 



t Aube in loc. cit. 



