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on either side near the eye, placed longitudinally ; there is a short 

 but well defined longitudinal carina on either side of the prothorax 

 close to the hind angle limiting externally the basal impressions 

 which are fairly large ; the 7th, 8th and 9th elytral strise are 

 excessively deep, the 7th and 8th being sinuous, the 6th and 7th 

 being obsolete at the base, the 8th joining the 9th at its base. 

 The tarsi are somewhat stout and not very elongate, the basal 

 joint of the hind tarsi being scarcely so long as the next 3 together. 

 The apical joint of the maxillary palpi is extremely short and not 

 very slender. There are two large setigerous punctures on either 

 side of the apical ventral segment a little behind the apex. 



I cannot place this species in any of the named groups (known 

 to me) of Bembidhim, nor do I know any species resembling it. 

 The prothorax is not unlike that of B. 7-u/escens, Guer., but tlie 

 sculpture of the elytra is totally unlike the sculpture of that insect. 

 The anterior tibise are much like those of a Tachys, but the sutural 

 stria of the elytra is not recurved at the apex, though I am not 

 sure that the apical portion of the 7th stria which is sinuous and a 

 little deepened does not really represent an interrupted piece of 

 a recurved stria, — so that this species seems to hover between 

 Bembidium and Tachys. 



Victorian Alps. 



Bembidium secalioides, sp.nov. 



Sat angustum ; sat elongatum ; nitidum ; supra nigrum, non- 

 nullis exemplis capite prothoraceque obscure rufescentibus, 

 subtus piceo-ferrugineum, palpis femoribusque pallide testa- 

 ceis, antennis tibiis tarsisque sordide testaceis vel potius 

 ferrugineis ; prothorace fortiter transverso, postice quam 

 antice vix latiori, canaliculato, postice utrinque impresso, 

 latitudine majori mox pone marginem anticum posita, sulco 

 antico tranverso arcuato profunde impresso punctulato, 

 lateribus sat anguste marginatis fortiter rotundatis, angulis 

 posticis obtusis (apice summo subdentatis), basi retrorsum 

 valde lobata ; elytris Isevigatis, nihilominus utrinque stria 



