CARABID.E. BEMBIDIUM. 193 



Above obscure greenish bronze, depressed. Head with a short 

 fovea on each side, terminated in front by a stria and transverse 

 ridge ; palpi and antennae black, the basal joint of the latter 

 sometimes entirely, at other times only underneath dull red. 

 Thorax very short and broad, very slightly narrowed behind, so 

 that the base is sensibly wider than in any of the preceding- 

 species, posterior angles prominent, the base and two wide 

 shallow fovese near the angles very much wrinkled so as to 

 present the appearance of being finely rugose, the disk on each 

 side the dorsal line being also finely strigose. Elytra -broad, 

 slightly widest behind, striated, the strise entire on the sides and 

 at the apex, the first and second, third and fourth and sometimes 

 the fifth and sixth united at their extremity, but the fifth often 

 more deeply impressed in the form of a curve carried round the 

 ends of the third and fourth and almost united with the first 

 and second, all the strife are wholly impunctate, with the inter- 

 stices flat, the third with two impressions; underside of the body 

 bronzed black, legs obscure black. Length 2| lines. 



Immediately distinguishable from the preceding by its impunc- 

 tate strise and by the great width of the thorax. The insect 

 described by Stephens as Fellmanni probably belongs to this 

 species, as the description corresponds, but there are no examples 

 in the Stephensian cabinet to represent it. P. Leachii and 

 olivaceum also belong to this species, to which the name prasinum 

 must be assigned in right of priority. 



It appears to be a rare species, but is found occasionally in 

 the north of England and in Scotland ; Castle Eden Dene and 

 the banks of the Derwent; Carlisle; Carfin; Loch Lomond. I have 

 captured it also on the banks of the Dee near Llangollen, North 

 Wales. 



(NOTAPHUS, Megerle.) 



25. B. flammulatum : capite thoraceque obscure viridi-seneis, 

 hoc subcordato, angulis posticis prominulis ; elytris fusco- 

 seneis testaceo-variegatis, fortiter punctato-striatis ; anten- 

 narum basi abdominis apice pedibusque piceo-testaceis. 



Ocydromus flammulatus, Clairv. Ent. Helv. 2. 20 (1806). 

 Bembidium flammulatum, Jacq.-Duv. Ann. Soc. Ent. 10. 163. 

 E. undulatum, Sturm, D. F. 6. 156. pi. 160. Dej. Spec. 5. 63; 



Icon. 4. 342. pi. 209. Heer, Faun. Helv. 125. 

 Notaphus undulatus, Steph. Mand. 2. 17, et Manual, p. 56. 



Head and thorax greenish or blackish brass, the former with 

 an impressed stria on each side ; antennae brownish black, with 



