96 Proceedings of the 



It is spread over the most part of Europe, in Prussia, Austria, 

 Saxony, Switzerland, France, Sweden, and Britain, but is every- 

 where scarce. 



The only exotic species belonging to this group which I know 

 of is C. lateritius, Menet. C. Frank enhaueseri, Mann., would also 

 fall into this group, if it is retained in the genus at all, but its 

 pectinate antennse seem to me to require us to create a separate 

 genus to receive it. 



5. C. lateritius, Men. 



Catops lateritius, Menetries, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sciences, St. Petersburg, 

 6 ser. vi. (1849), p. 52. 



" Oblongo-ovatus, pallide rufo-ferrugineus, breviter griseo-pubes- 

 cens ; antennis tenuibus longitudine dimidii corporis; thorace 

 transverso subdepresso postice latiore angulis obtusis, late- 

 ribus subreflexis ; elytris creberrime punctulatis, substriatis, 

 stria suturali profunde exarata. 



" Long. 2 lin., lat. f lin. 



" Near C. agilis, Ulig., but proportionately narrower, the thorax 

 is much less broad and natter, and the antennae are much longer. 



"Described from two individuals taken at Novaia Alexan- 

 drovskaia*." 



Group II. (Subgenus Catops (true).) 



Mesosternum not keeled; body oblong ; antenna more or less 

 club-shaped or thickened towards the apex, eighth joint decidedly 

 smaller than seventh and ninth. The posterior trochanters not 

 more developed in the males. 



1st Subdivision. Base of thorax decidedly narrowed or cut in, 

 so that the thorax and elytra do not form a continuous outline. 

 Middle tarsi widened in the males. 



6. C. acicularis, Kraatz. 

 Catops acicularis, Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xiii. 406. 6. 



Oblongus, ferrugineus ; antennis subfiliformibus ; thorace trans- 

 verso, postice latiore, angulis posticis obtusiusculis ; elytris 

 substriatis transversim strigosis. 



Long. If lin. 



Of the slender form of the species in the foregoing group, but 



* Menetries in loc. cit. 



