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ciliata, externo biarticulato, articulo secundo dimidio breviore. 

 Mandibulae arcuatte, acute, intus in medio tridenticulata. 

 Labrum minutum, antice profunde emarginatum, postice 

 for liter coarctatum. Tarsi antici maris articulis duobus 

 dilatatis, primo triangularly secundo obcordiformi, introrsum 

 dilatatis, articulo penultimo subtus in utroque sexu spind 

 incurvd armato. 



1. B.areolatus: nigro-piceus,depressus; thorace oblong o -cor data 

 postice coarctato unistriatoque, angulis posticis acutiusculis ; 

 elytris elongatis, parallelis, subpubescentibus, plagd media 

 rufo-ferrugined, punctato-striatis, punctisque duobus im- 

 pressis ; antennis basi pedibusque rufo-testaceis. 



Carabus areolatus, Creutz. Ent. Ver. 115. 



Bembidium areolatum, Sturm, D. F. 6. 155. Dej. Spec. 5. 37; 



Icon. 4. 322. pi. 207. Heer, Faun. Helv. 123. 

 Lymnceum areolatum, Steph. Manual, p. 52. 

 L. depressum, Steph. Mand. 2. 3. 



Oblong, depressed, pitchy black, sometimes reddish. Head 

 with an elongate curved impression on each side enclosing the 

 eyes ; labrum, palpi and two joints at the base of the antennae 

 red, the rest of the antennae brownish. Thorax oblong, heart- 

 shaped, much contracted behind, posterior angles rather acute, 

 disk with a deeply impressed dorsal furrow and a stria on each 

 side at the base. Elytra depressed, elongate, sides parallel, 

 finely pubescent, pitchy, with a red patch common to both across 

 the middle, more or less distinct, punctate-striated, the punctured 

 striae effaced at the apex, the third interstice with two impressions; 

 legs red. Length 1J line. 



Rare : Dudden Sands, near Broughton-in-Furness, Lanca- 

 shire; and at the confluence of the Conway and Llugwy in 

 North Wales. 



Genus 48. LYMN-ffiUM, Stephens. 



Mentuin lateribus mediocriter dilatato-rotundatis, dente medio 

 integro. Ligula mediocris, membranacea, apice subrotundata ; 

 paraglossis gracilibus ligulam superantibus. Palpi maxillares 

 articulo secundo gracili, penultimo inflato, labiales articulo 

 penultimo incrassato, ultimis subuliformibus penultimis brevi- 

 oribus. Maxillae graciles, lobo apicali intus spinulis armato, 

 lobo externo biarticulato, articulo basali dimidio breviore. 

 Mandibulse porrectce, conica, apice acuto infiexo, intus ad 



