OU COLEOPTERA. 



Bembiclium o-striatum, Gyll. Ins. Suec. ii. 34; Dawson, 

 Geod. Brit. p. 177. Several examples of this species, gene- 

 rally rare in British collections, were secured by Dr. Power 

 on the 6th of April, 1855, at. the foot of the cliffs, close to 

 Kemp Town, in company with P. ruficollis. 



Bembiclium Bruxellense, Wesmael, Bull. Acad. p. 47; 

 Dawson, Geod. Brit. p. 182. This distinct species has been 

 found plentifully in a small marsh near the Redhill Station, 

 on the London and Brighton Railway, in July, 1855 ; also 

 in swampy places on Woking Common. 



Bembiclium affine, Steph. Mand. v. 386 (Peryplim) ; 

 Dawson, Geod. Brit. p. 190. Found in abundance by Dr. 

 Power below the cliff at the east end of Kemp Town, on 

 the 6th of April, 1855. Also by Mr. F. Bates in Septem- 

 ber and October, 1854, in an old gravel pit, near Leicester ; 

 he found numbers of them concealed in the crevices of the 

 soil several feet below the surface. I believe this to be a 

 perfectly distinct species, and with constant characters which 

 immediately distinguish it from nitidulum. Of the whole 

 number of examples (about eighty) taken by Mr. Bates, not 

 one by any means accorded with the latter insect. 



Bembiclium tibiale, Dufts. Faun. ii. 209 (Elaphrus) ; 

 Dawson, Geod. Brit. p. 191. This species has been found 

 by Mr. F. Bates on the pebbly margins of a brook in Brad- 

 gate Park, Leicestershire, and all the examples have (he in- 

 forms me) a more uniformly brassy tinge than most of the 

 northern specimens, whilst none at all are found to corre- 

 spond with the cyaneous examples so common in the more 

 mountainous districts. The occurrence of this species in the 

 midland counties has not been previously recorded. 



Bembiclium obliquum, Sturm, D. F. vi. 160, p. 161 ; 

 Dawson, Geod. Brit. p. 195, pi. 2, f. E. One example only 

 of this species was to be found in any British collection at 

 the date of the publication of my Monograph, and is therein 



