254 [November, 



''''Otiorhynchus monticola??'''' is no doubt O. blandus. All the specimens 

 brought back by Mr. Annaudale can be perfectly matched by Scotch 

 specimens, with the exception of the new Bembidium, which is a very 

 interesting form, being allied to species found in Central and Southern 

 Europe on the edges of snowfields at a great elevation. 



Bembidium islandicum, n. sp. 



Nigrum, supcrne suhaneum, antennarum basi pedibusque sordide testaceis, 

 femoribus basi piceo ; elytris subtiliter seriatim pimctatis, versus latera et 

 apicem punctatura ohsoleta. Long., 4|- mm. 



An Bembidium nigricorne, Gyll. ?, Staudiiiger, Ent. Zeit. Stett., 1857, p. 282 ?. 



Kesembles B. glaciate, but readily distinguished by the colour of the legs and 

 base of the antennae, and by the longer terminal joints of the labial and maxillary 

 palpi. Antennae rather slender, the Ist joint and the bases of the three or four 

 following joints yellow. Thorax cordate, much narrowed behind and sinuate at the 

 sides, the posterior angles rectangular, very sharply marked, the base broadly and 

 deeply impressed on eaoh side, but with little punctuation. The sculpture of the 

 elytra is entirely that of the -B. ^Zacja^e group, there being six regular series of 

 punctures, well marked at the base, but becoming quite indistinct on the apical 

 half. The legs are dusky yellow ; the tarsi darker, and also the base of the femora. 

 Three individuals, one male. 



This species belongs to the subgenus Testediolum, Gangl. Al- 

 though Ganglbauer makes entirely black legs and antennae a chief 

 character of the subgenus, it is evidently an unimportant point. If 

 we trusted to it this species would come into the subgenus Peryphus, 

 with which, however, it has little in common. 



The species has some resemblance to B. nigricorne, but belongs 

 to a quite different division of the genus, there being no trace of an 

 angle on the shoulder of the margin of the elytra. Staudinger, in 

 recording with doubt B. nigricorne as amongst his Iceland Goleoptera, 

 says "so determined by Dr. Schaum. Only a few examples ; two of 

 them from the north, found with B. bipunctatum. Certainly not 

 common." Since then the species has apparently not been met with 

 till it was found this year by Mr. Annandale. 



Very little appears to be known as to the Fauna of the Faroe 

 Islands. In Coleoptera I have been able to find only ten recorded 

 species. They were found by Mr. Walker in 1890, and mentioned in 

 the Entomologist for that year, pp. 374 and 375. Mr. Annandale 

 spent several days there in the last half of June, and found 29 species 

 of Coleoptera. His captures were mostly made near Thorshavn : — 



They are Carabus catenulatus, Loricera piticornis, Notiophitus bigttttatus, Ne- 

 bria bremcoltis and N. gyttenhali, Calathus cistetoides, Amara aulica, Pterostichus 



