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more widely separated, and the elytra more obliquely 

 widened from the shoulders, than in B. inserticeps. The 

 thorax is of remarkable form, much the widest at the 

 base, and, with the exception of a very slight widening 

 in the middle, narrowed to the apex, the apical angles 

 advanced and acute. Dull-coloured specimens are red- 

 dish coppery, subopaque, with elytral borders widely 

 green, and extreme margins golden. In an immature 

 example the legs and antennae are pitchy red. 



Bembidium chloropus. 



B. ceneipedi affinis, sed major; toto seneum nitidum, 

 pedibus viridi-seneis, femoribus basi tibiisque medio tes- 

 taceis ; antennarum scapo subtus testaceo, palpis articulo 

 penultirno viridi-aeneo ; sulcis frontalibus elongatis, inter- 

 spatio convexo ; thorace a basi usque ad apicem modice 

 angustato, medio paullulum dilatato, angulis anticis 

 productis, basi alutaceo, fovea utrinque modice im- 

 pressa ; elytris ab humeris oblique ampliatis, deinde 

 parallelis, apice conjunctim acuminatis ; punctato- 

 striatis, stria 7ma apud humerum obsoleta, 8 — 9 sat late 

 separatis sed profundius impressis, interstitiis planis, 

 tertio punctis duabus parvis. Long. 5| — 6 mm. 



Hakodate. 



Bembidium (Bracteon) striatum, Fab. 

 Fab. ; Schaum, Ins. Deutschl., i., 1, p. 677. 

 Niigata. 



THgonodactyla insignis. (PL XIII., fig. 6). 



T. ccphaloti, Dej., simillima, forsan ejus varietas geo- 

 graphica. Elongata, linearis, fulvo-testacea capite thorace 

 antennisque rufo-castaneis, elytris macula ovata com- 

 muni post medium nigra ; capite magno fere quadrato, 

 lsevi, sulcis frontalibus postice intus curvatis; thorace 

 cordato grosse irregulariter punctato ; elytris punctato- 

 striatis, interstitiis planis, tertio punctis setiferis parvis 

 3 vel 4. Long. 8| mm. 



Yuyama ; Hitoyoshi ; under reeds on elevated downs. 



Mr. Lewis has compared his specimens with others 

 of T. ceyhalotes from India in the British Museum, and 

 finds them specifically distinct. Among other dis- 

 tinguishing characters he remarked the impunctate 



