88 Proceedings of the 



Var. C. intermedins, Kraatz. 

 C. intermedins, Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiii. 401. 2. 



" Oblongus, fuscus ; thorace postice angustiore, ante medium 

 latiore, angulis posticis obtusiusculis ; elytris substriatis con- 

 coloribus ; antennis pedibusque ferrugineis. 



" Long. 2J lin. 



(i Mas, trochanteribus posticis scalpiformibus. 



" In form tbis species occupies the middle place between 

 C spadiceus, Dahl., and angustatus, Fab., — shorter and broader 

 than the latter, less robust than the former; well distinguished 

 however by its breadth. It is distinguished at the first glance 

 from C. spadiceus, Dahl., by the thorax not being deeply and 

 strongly punctured, as well as by its lighter colour. From C. an- 

 gustatus it differs in the following points : — 



" a. The whole beetle is shorter, more compressed, less equally 

 broad than the C. angustatus, Fab.; the elytra in the middle 

 somewhat bellied out. 



" b. The antennae are likewise uniform in colour, clear ferru- 

 ginous red, but somewhat shorter and stronger, the eighth joint 

 relatively shorter than in C. angustatus. 



" c. The margin of the thorax is somewhat broader, and 

 more bent upwards than in the C. angustatus, Fab. ; it is also 

 to be distinguished by the deepened lines on each side of the 

 thorax. The upper side is moderately finely and densely (coarsely- 

 shagreen) punctured, ferruginous brown, occasionally somewhat 

 darker in the middle. 



" d. The elytra are less equally broad than in the C. angus- 

 tatus, Fab., in the middle somewhat bellied out, entirely of one 

 colour, ferruginous brown. 



" I have at least half-a-dozen females, but only one male before 

 me, which with greater probability belongs to this species. It has 

 gouge-chisel-shaped lengthened trochanters in the hinder legs. 



" This species has up to this time been collected in the island 

 of Rugen (Erichson!), Konigsberg (Hargen !), Leipzig (v. Kiesen- 

 wetter !), S. Wehlen (Markel !), and Dusseldorf (Hildebrand !). 

 It has also been taken in Austria. For the most part it is 

 found under leaves. C. angustatus, Fab., is not rarely found 

 under stones." 



Var. C. cisteloides, Frohl. 



" Luperus cisteloides, Frohl. Naturf. 28. 25. 3. t. 2. f. 50. 



" Catops castaneus, Sturm, Ins. xiv. 9. 3. t. 273. a. A; Heer, Fii. Helv. i. 



378. 2; Redt. Fn. Aust. 143. 4 ; Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xii. 284. 4. 

 " cisteloides, Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiii. 404 ; Fairm. & Laboulb. 



Faun. Ent. Fran?, i. 299. 



