156 Proceedings of the 



Genus Catopsimorphus, Aube. 



Catopsimorphus, Aube, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 2 ser. vol. viii. p. 324. 



" Antennae with eleven joints, very much flattened ; the eighth 

 not narrower and scarcely shorter than the seventh and ninth. 

 Epistome cut almost straight. Labrum broadly and deeply 

 emarginate, and provided in front with a small very slender 

 membrane, strongly emarginate in the middle and ciliated in the 

 emargination. Mandibles denticulated at the extremity and fur- 

 nished within with a ciliated membrane. Maxillae with the 

 internal lobe terminated by a small hook; the external lobe 

 obtuse and hairy at the extremity. Maxillary palpi with four 

 joints, the first very small, the second slightly clavate, the third 

 obconic, the last conical, a half smaller than the third. Labium 

 membranous, pretty deeply emarginate. Labial palpi with three 

 cylindrical joints, the last smallest. Tarsi with five joints, the 

 anterior and middle probably dilated in the male. The facies of 

 this genus is completely analogous to that of Catops. It differs 

 from it principally in the form of the antennae. We know 

 nothing of its mode of life*." 



1. C. orientalis, Aube. 



Catopsimorphus orientalis, Aube, Ann. Soc. Ent, Fr. 2 ser. viii. 325. 



" Ovalis, convexiusculus, niger, griseo-pubescens ; 

 antennis, ore, elytris pedibusque ferrugineis; 

 thorace antice angustato, angulis omnibus ro- 

 tundatis. — 3^ mill. 



" Head black, somewhat brilliant, tolerably 

 broad, very finely punctate and slightly pubescent. 

 Labrum, palpi and antennae testaceous ; the latter 

 with the first joint longish, cylindrical; the second 

 almost globular ; the remainder transverse, flat- 

 tened and gradually increasing in size to the last, 

 which terminates in a point ; the eighth scarcely 

 shorter than the seventh and ninth. Thorax 

 black, pubescent and finely punctate and reticu- 

 lated, more than one and a half times broader than long, much 

 narrower in front than behind, cut almost straight at the apex 

 and the base, very broadly rounded at the sides ; the anterior 

 and posterior angles obtuse and rounded. Elytra as broad as 

 the thorax at the base, about one and a half times longer than 

 broad ; broadly rounded behind ; ferruginous, less finely punctate 



* Aube in loc. cit. 



