Royal Physical Society, 155 



It is found in Tasmania, and is the only species yet recorded 

 from the southern part of the hemisphere. 



Genus Catoptrichus, mrhi. 



Antennae of eleven joints, the last eight of which are strongly 

 serrated in the males, somewhat less so in the females ; the three 

 first are slender; the eighth joint is very slightly, if at all, nar- 

 rower or shorter than those on each side of it. In other respects 

 the characters do not differ from those of Catops. 



1. C. Frankenhcsuseri, Mann. 

 Catops Frankenhceuseri, Mann. Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. 1852, pt. 2. p. 332. 



Elongatus, fusco-piceus, griseo-pubes- Fig. 57. 



cens ; antennis pectinatis, basi ferru- 



gineis, articulo ultimo pyriformi apice 



acuminato ; thorace quadrato, angulis 



rotundatis, obsolete canaliculate, pos- 



tice in medio impresso ; elytris ob- 



longo-ellipticis, subtilissime punctu- 



latis, tenue striatis, stria suturali pro- 



fundiore, rufo-testaceis, cinereo-holo- 



sericeis, pilis longis fuscis prsesertim 



in margine obsitis; pedibus ferru- 



gineo-piceis. 

 Long. 2|-3 lin., lat. l|-ll lin. 



Elongate, having a good deal the form of the first group 

 (subg. Choleva) of the genus Catops : fuscous, clothed with a 

 griseous pubescence. Antennae pectinated, black, ferruginous at 

 the base ; the first three joints slender ; third longer than second ; 

 fourth to tenth each of nearly equal length, globose, with a long 

 spine proceeding outwards. Thorax quadrate, angles rounded, 

 obsoletely canaliculated, impressed behind in the middle. Elytra 

 oblong-elliptic, very finely punctulated, feebly striated, the sutu- 

 ral stria deeper, rufo-testaceous, with a cinereous bloom and 

 clothed with long brown hairs, especially on the margin ; legs 

 dark ferruginous. 



Inhabits the island of Sitka. Several specimens were taken 

 by M. Frankenhseuser in a human body lying in a wood, and in 

 putrid fungi. 



I owe the above figure to Dr. Leconte. 



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