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bfing considerably more piccous. It is perhaps still nearer to the 

 Madeiran B. ScJimidtii, and is in many respects intermediate between 

 that insect and the callosum, — agreeing better with the former in its 

 size, outline and colour, and with the latter in its sculpture ; never- 

 theless its still blacker and less senescent (or obscurely sxxbcyaneous) 

 hue, in conjunction with the Jlner and shorter striae, and the smaller 

 anterior patch, of its (more deeply transversely-impressed) elytra, 

 will, I think, sufficiently distinguish it even from the B. Schmidtii* . 

 Tliei?. suhcallosum is a most abundant insect, in wet spots, through- 

 out the Canarian archipelago — except in the eastern portion of it, 

 where it has not yet been observed. I have myself taken it in all 

 the islands of the Group except Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. In 

 Gomera it was captured likewise by Mr. Gray, in Teneriife by the 

 Barao do Castello de Paiva, and in hoth of those islands by Dr. Crotch. 



110. Bembidium inconspicuum, n. sp. 



B. sub\irescenti-nigrum ; prothorace cordato, angulis ipsissimis pos- 

 ticis subrectis, per basin parcissime punctato ; elytris subparallelo- 

 oblongis, tenuiter marginatis, maculis duabus testaceis utrinque 

 ornatis, profunde striato-punctatis, striis postice evanesecntibus ; 

 antennis pedibusque testaceis, illis versus apicem femoribusque 

 fuscescentioribus. — Long. corp. lin. l^. 



Habitat Teneriffam, a Dom. W. D. Crotch nuper repertum. 



A single example of this little Bemhidhmi was captured in Tene- 

 riffe, during the spring of 1862, by Dr. Crotch, — who has kindly 

 presented it to the collection at the British Museum. It is somewhat 

 allied to the common European B. 4-maculatum, but is smaller, with 

 its extreme hinder prothoracic angles rather less evidently denticu- 

 lated, with its elytra much more deeply striate-punctate, and with its 

 hmbs shorter — the antennal joints especially being more abbreviated. 



(Subgenus Leja, Mcr/.) 



]11. Bembidium laetum. 



B. capite prothoraceque senescenti-cupreis, latera versus interdum 

 virescentibus, illo utrinque pimctato et longitudinaliter striguloso, 



* The Madeiran B. Schmidtii differs from the European ca1los7i,rii in being 

 rather larger, and altogether broader and darker ; in having the jjunctiu-e between 

 the base of eacli of its frontal sulci (which are themselves a little different) and 

 tlie eye coarser ; in its prothorax being somewhat more tliickly and roughly 

 punctured beliind, with a more evident tendency to be obsoletely punctured in 

 the centre in front, and with its basal foveie a trifle less sharply defined ; in its 

 elytral stria? being very much deeper, more coarsely punctm'ed, and continued 

 to a greater distance posteriorly ; and in its legs being more robust, with the 

 claws longer. 



