156 On Geodephagous Coleoptera from Ceylon. 



Tachys orientalis. 

 Betnbidium orientale, Nietner, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Ilist. I808, ii. p. 425. 

 Colombo. 



Tachys notapho'ides. 



Elongato-oblongo-ovatus, subdepressus, castaneo-fusciis vel rufus, 

 £enesccns ; elytris utrinqiie maculis duabus transversis, pedibus 

 antennarumque articailo primo (cseteris nigro-fuscis) flavo-testa- 

 ceis ; fronte utrinque bistriato ; thorace quadrato, ante medium 

 vix rotundato, postice parum augusfcato, angxilis posticis rectis vel 

 Bubacutis, margineque basali fere recto medio sinuato ; elytris 

 9-striatis, septima fere obliterata, secunda ad sextam apice abbre- 

 viatis, oetava et nona parallelis approximatis ; punctis 2 dorsabbus 

 apud interstitium tertium sitis. 



Long. 2\ millim. 



Kitugalle, on the river-side. 



Unlike any other species known to me. The eljtral stria? 

 are finely and sharply incised, the sixth being rather less 

 deep and the seventh faint but distinct, the eighth runs 

 throughout parallel to the ninth or marginal. The recurved 

 striolc is very deeply impressed, long and regularly curved. 

 In these respects it differs from T. orientalis and Klugii, in 

 which the eighth stria is much curved and recedes from the 

 ninth in its middle course and the recurved striole is very short. 



Bembidium europs. 



B. nilotico proximo affinis, differt sobim tegumento subtilissime 

 alutaceo, snbopaco, striisque froutalibus parum impressis, in- 

 terruptis. 



Long. 3| millim. 



Kandy. 



From B. niloticum, which has a wide range from Egypt 

 to China and New Caledonia, and presents only triHing local 

 modifications, the single example taken by Mr. Lewis differs 

 in its finely shagreened surface, similar to that of many species 

 of Bracteon. To this are added the much fainter frontal 

 furrows, which, instead of being deep sulci, running (and 

 diverging) from the epistorae to the hind margin of the eyes, 

 are faint and interrupted, and the space between them shows 

 no convexity. The general colour is lighter brassy, and the 

 testaceous spot at the apex of the elytra, instead of forming a 

 large lunule on each side, is broken up into tesselated spots. 



[To be continued.] 



