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the base of the fifth ; the legs are wholly black ; the thorax is rather 

 sparsely punctate ; the metanotum is finely and densely obliquely 

 striate; the wings are yellowish hyaline. Length, 18-21 mm. One 

 male, three females, Mason Co., 111. Type in coll. 111. State Lab. 

 Nat. Hist. 



Note 21, p. 256. — Bembidula capnoptera. The single example 

 agrees with the description of this species except that the abdom- 

 inal yellow bands are of good width, about equal to the intervals 

 between them, and all rather narrowly interrupted at middle. 



