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pressed at the base, with the median line distinct. The elytra 

 are marked with indistinct striae, those next the suture being the 

 most distinct. 



145. — Bembididm sbxstriatdm. n. sp. 



Length 1^ lines. 

 Upper surface of a pitchy red clouded in some parts with 

 brown. Head with the frontal impressions broad and long. 

 Thorax little convex, transversal, rounded on the sides, and but 

 very little narrowed towai'ds the posterior angles, which are 

 square and broadly reflexed ; the median line is well marked, and 

 the centre of the base is transversely depressed and rugose. The 

 elytra have three distinct broad striae on each side of the suture, 

 beyond these other strife may be traced, but they are very in- 

 distinct, there is also a large puncture about the line of the fourth 

 stria, at a short distance from the base. The legs and first joint 

 of the antennae are yellow. 



146. — Bembididm ovatum. n. sp. 



Length scai'cely 1 line. 

 Entirely of a pale testaceous colour, convex, and broadly ovate. 

 Head with the frontal impressions long and linear. Thorax 

 transversal, rounded on the sides in front, not narrowed behind, 

 square and slightly reflexed at the posterior angles, and truncate 

 at the base, with a very lightly marked median line and with the 

 transversal depression of the base very small. Elytra broadjy 

 ovate with a distinct stria on each side of the suture, and a deep 

 fovei-form impression on the basal margin on each side of the 

 scutellum. 



147. — Bembidium bifoveatum. n. sp. 

 Length f of a line. 

 This species only diflPers from the last in being smaller, less 

 broad, in having no trace of stri^ on the elytra beyond the dis- 

 tinct one on each side of the suture, and in having a deep fovei- 

 form impression at the base of the thorax on each side of the 



