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on account of the colour of its elytra, which are entirely ferru- 

 ginous. The head is black, granulated. The maxillary palpi, 

 as well as the labial palpi, are reddish. The antennae are ferru- 

 ginous, with the last joints a little brownish. The thorax 

 slightly pubescent, very finely granulated, and tolerably convex ; 

 black, margined with ferruginous on the sides and behind ; 

 the sides are rounded, as are also the angles on each side of the 

 base. The scutellum is black, pubescent, and very finely granu- 

 lated. The elytra very pubescent, ferruginous ; they are finely 

 granulated, striated, and a sutural stria appears pretty deeply 

 impressed on each side of the suture. The whole body below is 

 black. The legs are of the same colour as the elytra, with the 

 thighs marked with brown, and the tibiae finely denticulated*." 

 Met with by M. Lucas on a single occasion, under stones, in 

 the month of January, in the ravines of Djebel Santon, in the 

 neighbourhood of Oran. 



40. C. fungicola, Kolen, 



Catops fungicola, Kolenati, Meletemata Ent. fasc. v. 51. 



" Castaneus, nitidus, pubescens, punctulatus ; capite brunneo, 



antennis pedibusque testaceis. 

 " Long. 0-0025, lat. 0-00133. 



" Head blackish-brown, shining, scarcely punctulated ; tho- 

 rax testaceous or chestnut, pubescent, very finely punctulate; 

 elytra convex, chestnut, shining, narrowed behind, rounded, 

 puDctulate. Scutellum brown, punctulate. 



" Lives in fungi in the woods of Mount Ssarijal, in the pro- 

 vince of Elisabethopolisf." 



This species is unknown to me, and I place it in this group 

 merely from the colour, none of the characters on which I 

 have rested my subdivisions of the genus being mentioned by 

 M. Kolenati. 



41. C. pusillus, Motsch. 



Catops pusillus, Victor Motsehoulsky, Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. 1840,, p. 175. 



" Ovalis, cinnamomeus, sericeo-pubescens ; thorace Fig. 41. 

 transverso, angulis posticis subproductis, lateribus 

 rotundatis; antennis pedibusque dilutioribus pu- 

 bescentibus. 



" Long. | lin., lat. \ lin. 



u One of the smallest species of Catops, and covered 

 with a close golden pubescence. The antennae are a little pilose, 



* Lucas in loc. cit. f Kolenati in loc. cit : 



