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evident that Schaum's insect is not what was intended by 

 the former. Sahlberg says 'that its colour is " 7ii(jro-sub- 

 cBneum^' as against the " nigro-subvirescens" of his giittula 

 (whereas Mannerheimii of Schaum is " nigrum^'' and his 

 guttula " nigro-subcBneum''') ; that its thorax is truncate 

 fore and aft, with rounded angles, omitting any mention of the 

 sub-emarginate posterior angles ; and that its elytra are 

 oblong-ovate and moderately convex (" ovatis, convexiori- 

 bus," Schaum) ; — with all of v/hich characters Miiklin's 

 statement is consistent. 



Schaum originally recorded his species from England. 



6. Bembidium 14-striatum, Thomson, Opusc. Ent., iv, p, 

 361 ; E. C. Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag., x, p. 137. 

 velox, Er., Schiodte, Crotch; Ent. Ann. 1867, p. 107; 

 ?iec Linn. 



Thomson thus names as a good species the insect usually 

 considered to be a variety of B. lamjwos ; Erichson's velox 

 clashing with Linnseus's ^'•Carabus'" of the same name. The 

 characters already recorded for this insect are its average 

 larger size, its having a distinct 7th stria on the elytra, 

 somewhat more acuminate hinder angles to the thorax, and 

 the base of the antennae: and the whole tibice darker in colour. 

 To these, Thomson adds that it is rather wider, that its 

 elytra are scarcely rotundate at the sides and are more 

 flattened on the back, that the stride are more delicate, the 

 interstices flat and wider, and the thorax more strongly 

 transverse. 



Whether these further diagnostics are to outweigh the 

 connecting individuals mentioned by Duval and Schaum 

 (Ins. Deutschl., i, p. 718), which are of intermediate size, 

 with 7 stri®, rectangular posterior angles to the thorax, red 



