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Bembidium anchonoderum, n. sp. 



Elongato-ovatum, CBnescenti-nigrum, politum, palpis, antennis pedihusque piceis; 

 thorace rotundato,angtiUs posticis haud cxplanatis, angustefoveatis, supra lateribus 

 subtiUter alutaceis ; elgtris punctato-striatis, strils prope apicem paulo debilioribus, 

 inlerstitio tertio bipunctato. Mas : tarsorum anticoruni articulis duohus basalibus 

 dllatatis, apice intus productis. Long, lf-2 lin., $ $ . 



J^ariat colore supra ceneo. 



Tairua, near Auckland ; 2 examples (Capt. Broun) . 



Belongs apparently to the same group as H. parviceps ; but the 

 thorax is quite different in shape, being more broadly and regularly 

 rounded at the sides, and rather abruptly narrowed at the base ; the 

 lateral margins very narrow, without projection at the hind angles, 

 which are, nevertheless, rectangular. The frontal furrows are broad, 

 deep, and simple. The head is rather small, and the eyes only mo- 

 derately prominent. The back of the head and the sides of the thorax 

 are very finely shagreened, and there are some wrinkles on the disc 

 of the latter. The elytra are elongate-ovate, rather convex : the 

 striae are tolerably deep, and only a little less impressed on nearing 

 the apex, the 1st and 2nd arc indeed deeper near the apex, the 2nd 

 flexuous, and joining the recurved apex of the 1st ; the 7th is distinct ; 

 the punctures are moderately large, but become much fainter towards 

 the apex. 



Bembidium etjsticttjm, n. sp. 



Elongato-ovatum, supra ceneum, politum; palpis, antennis, pedibusque rufo-piceis ; 

 thorace late rotundafo, angulis posticis distinctis, marginihus postice nullo modo ex- 

 jjlanatis, J'oveolis basalibus angustis ; elgtris ovatis, grosse punctalo-striatis, striis 

 2 — -7 ante apicem evanescentibus ; inlerstitio tertio punctis duobus, anteriori 

 maxima, notato. Long. 14-lf lin. 



Tairua, near Auckland ; 4 examples (Capt. Broun). 



Very closely allied to B. anclionoderuin ; differing only in its 

 rather smaller size, its broader thorax and relatively shorter elytra, the 

 conspicuously larger anterior puncture on the 3rd elytral interstice, 

 and the obliteration of all the middle stria) before the apex. 



Bembidium callipeplum, n. sp. 



Elongato-ovatum, nitidum, ceneum, antennis basi, pedibtis, elyirisqueflavo-testaceis, 



his pione medium plaga communi angulata fusco-csnea ; thorace rotundato-cordato, 



basi angustato, leevi, a^igulis posticis nullo modo explanatis, subobtusis, vixfooeatis ; 



elytris punctato-strialis, striis versus basin vix impressis, tertio tri-jninctato. Has : 



tarsorum anlicorum articulis duobus basalibus dilatatis, apice extus productis. 



Long. I'i lin. 



