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ened ; the last is short and a little acuminate. The head is a 

 little darker than the rest of the body, and the mouth somewhat 

 lighter. The thorax is pubescent, smooth, not punctate, but 

 feebly granulose, broader than long, rounded on the sides, 

 broadest a little behind the middle, bisinuate at the base, with 

 the posterior angles projecting slightly backwards. The scu- 

 tellum is large and acutely triangular. The elytra are very long, 

 being five times the length of the thorax, and taper towards the 

 apex in a wedge-shape. They are very deeply transversely 

 wrinkled, with a profound sutural stria, and seven other stria? 

 less deeply impressed but still quite distinct. The apex of each 

 elytron is somewhat rounded. The margins of the elytra are 

 broadly inflexed, leaving a prominent lateral ridge. 



Female. The above description will apply also to the female, 

 with the following alterations : — She is much shorter and com- 

 paratively broader, and the elytra are not so disproportioned 

 in their length. The antenna? are shorter and thicker, the base 

 and apex much paler than the middle. The impressed striae on 

 the elytra are much less evident, but the transverse strigations 

 are equally distinct. 



No species that I have seen has the transverse strigations so 

 strongly marked. It may at first sight be mistaken for a very 

 large prcecox, but these strigations and the almost dispro- 

 portionate length and wedge-shape of the elytra in the male 

 distinguish it readily. 



I found three males and one female under this name, marked 

 as coming from Portugal, in the collection of the Count Dejean ; 

 the kindness of M. le Marquis de Laferte Senectere having 

 placed that collection in my hands for examination. 



36. C. brunneus, Dahl., Sturm. 



Catops brunneus, Knoch, Dahl. Col. et Lepid. 30; Sturm, Deutschl. Fn. 

 xiv. 38. 19. t. 2/8. la. A; Redt. Fn. Aust. 145. 16 ; Kraatz, Stett. 

 Ent. Zeit. xiii. 439. 28. 



Ovatus, piceo-brunneus, fumatus ; capite fusco ; an- Fig. 37. 

 tennis longioribus, obsolete clavatis, ferrugineis ; 

 thorace transverso, basi latiore, margine postico 

 recto, angulis posticis obtusis ; elytris brunneis. 



Long. 1 lin. 



As large as C. precox, but of a wholly different 

 shape. It is broad-oval, moderately flat, behind 

 broadly truncate, ferruginous-brown and shining. 

 The antennae are as long as the head and thorax, 

 thin, gradually somewhat thickened towards the apex, the termi- 

 nal joint roundish, pubescent, the eighth joint short. The head 



