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tate, with a slight bloom or hoar-frost on them, sparingly and 

 finely pubescent, brownish -yellow. The under side of the body 

 is pitchy-black. The legs are reddish -yellow*." 



M. Kraatz has established this species upon one example from 

 Sicily, communicated by Zeller to the Royal Museum of Berlin. 



29. C. scitulus, Erichs. 



Choleva fumata, Spence, Linn. Trans, xl. 155. 4. 



Catops scitulus, Erichs. K'af. d. M. Brand, i. 241. 13; Sturm, Deutschl. 

 Faun. xiv. 33. 16; Redt. Faun. Aust. 772; Kraatz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 

 xiii. 437. 24 ; Fairm. & Laboulb. Fn. Ent. Fr. i. 304. 17. 

 Ovatus, fuscus; antennis leviter clavatis, ferru- Fig. 31. 

 gineis ; thorace postice latiore, angulis posticis 

 productis, rectis; elytris pedibusque obscure 

 fusco-testaceis. 

 Long. 1J lin. 



Oval, brown. Antennse as long as head and 

 thorax, ferruginous, a little deeper before the 

 extremity. Head brownish-black, densely punctate. Thorax 

 large, deep brown, densely punctate, only one-third broader than 

 long, as broad at the base as the elytra, narrowed in front from 

 the middle, rounded on the sides; posterior angles pointed, a 

 little projecting behind, which makes the posterior margin 

 visibly sinuated on each side. Elytra oval, slightly acuminate, 

 densely punctate, without vestiges of strise, except the sutural ; 

 testaceous-brown, extremity blackish. Legs ferruginous. 



Resembles C.fumatus, but differs by having the antennae longer, 

 the elytra broader, and the posterior angles of the thorax projecting 

 a little behind, and its colour darker and concolorous ; and covered 

 with a fine silky pubescence, so that when looked at from behind, 

 a paler sericeous band appears to stretch across the elytra. 



Not common. Has been taken near Berlin, in Thuringia, Er- 

 langen, Switzerland, near Paris, near London, and in the south of 

 England. I have not seen any examples taken in Scotland. 



B. Antennae not heavily clubbed; middle tarsi of males rarely 

 widened. Yig. 32.f 



30. C. depressus, mihi. 

 Breviter ovatus, postice attenuatus, ferrugineus ; an- 

 tennis subfiliformibus ; thorace transverso, sub- 

 depresso, postice latiore, lateribus postice leviter 

 inflexis ; angulis posticis fere acutis ; elytris pal- 

 lidioribus, substriatis. 



Long. 1^ lin. 



Entirely of a pale ferruginous colour ; the elytra 



t The sinuations of the thorax and prominence of the shoulders are 

 rather exaggerated in this figure. * Kraatz in loc. cit. 



