34 COLEOPTERA. 



T. ohticsus seems more abundant in the north of Endand 

 than in the south ; it certainly occurs, however, in the Lon- 

 don district, as 1 found it in my series ofminutus, all taken in 

 this neighbourhood, and Mr. C. Waterhouse found it near 

 Croydon. 



3. Bembidium Fockii, Hummel, Entom. ii. 27, iii. pi. 1, 

 f. 2; Duval, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France (1851), 

 189, 108; Fairm. et Lab. Faune Franc. 155, 9; 

 Wollaston, Cat. Col. Mad. 21,62; Schaum, Erichs. 

 Ins. Deutschl. 751, 8 (TacJujs)', T.J. Bold, Zool. 

 8610 (1863). 

 We are indebted to Mr. Bold of Newcastle for the addi- 

 tion of this most interesting species to our list of Geodephaga, 

 of which he captured a very few specimens beneath stones 

 on the sea shore near South Shields, in the early part of last 

 spring, and liberally presented an example to Mr. Water- 

 house (who determined the species) and another to myself. 



The size I lin, given in Schaum's work is clearly a mistake ; 

 the insect seems to vary from li lin. to 1| lin., the largest 

 of Mr. Bold's specimens seen by me being about the same 

 lengtli as Benibidiuin ohtusum, but very diflerent in shape 

 from that species, and indeed it cannot well be compared 

 with any British member of the genus, on account of its very 

 short and rounded elytra. The only insect bearing the re- 

 motest resemblance to it would be a small specimen of 

 B, riifescens; but, compared with B. Fochii, the elytra in 

 that species are too long, not sufficiently rounded, and too 

 flat, since in B. Fockii they are somewhat suddenly rounded 

 behind, and the insect, when viewed sideways, has a re- 

 markable elevation for a TadiySj or, indeed, for any of the 

 Bemhidia. 



In colour it is entirely bright rufo-testaceous, the eyes 

 only being black; the elytra are punctate-striate, the striae 



