NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1873. 79 



The species appears to have a wide range in temperate 

 Europe, reaching as far north as Lapland. 



Schanm points out that Dejean had Gyllenhal's serie- 

 pu7ictatus from that author, so that there can be no doubt as 

 to its identity with H. A-piinctatus; though both Gyllenhal 

 and Erichson (Col. March., p. 53) confused the former with 

 Sturm's species of the same name (= impiger, Dufts., 1812). 

 He admits that (more rarely) 3 punctures are found in the 

 3rd interstice; and,^ as there are sometimes 4, as proved by 

 Mr. Blackburn's capture, above mentioned, the difficulty as 

 to Gyllenhal mentioning 4 or o is materially diminished. 

 Thomson evidently considers, that, as Sturm's prior serie- 

 punctatus sinks to the still prior impiger, Gyllenhal's serie- 

 punctatus should stand. He alone quotes Zetterstedt's 

 Icevipes as from that author's " Fauna Insecta Lapponica," 

 instead of the " Insecta Lapponica Descripta." Zetterstedt 

 himself does not in describing that species in the later work 

 refer to the earlier (which I do not possess); but, if Thomson 

 be right, Icevipes would have to stand, having a year's 

 priority over 4-pu?ictatiis, and seriepunctatus (pace Thom- 

 son) being inadmissible. 



o. Bembidium unicolok, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc, 1850. 

 iii., p. 176. 

 Mannerheimii, Schaum (1860), nee Sahlberg. 

 Supposing Schaum to be right in referring Chaudoir's 

 insect to his own Mannerheimii, the name unicolor must 

 stand, since, according to W. F. Miiklin, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 

 xxxiii, p. 245, the eight exponents of B. Mannerheimii in 

 Sahlberg's own collection are composed of seven individuals 

 of 5. guttula and one B. ohtusuml — and B. Mannerheimii, 

 Sahib., is therefore non-existent as a species. From Sahl- 

 berg's description (Ins. Fenn., i, p. 202), it is tolerably 



