200 CARABID^E. BEMBIDIUM. 



broader at the base, and the head is more deeply sulcated than 

 either. 



It is a local species, which I first discovered in the marshes at 

 Herringstone, near Dorchester, in May 1848 and named it 

 after my friend and companion, the Rev. Hamlet Clark. I found 

 it still more plentifully in the same locality in 1852 ; and have 

 taken it likewise on the seashore in Pegwell Bay, near Ramsgate. 



(LEJA, Meg.} 



33. B. lampros : ceneum, nitidum ; thorace lateribus antice late 

 rotundato, postice coarctato, profunde foveolato, angulis 

 posticis rectis ; elytris oblongo-ovatis, striis punctatis apice 

 evanescentibus sex distinctis ; antennis basi rufis, pedibus 

 rufo-testaceis. 



Carabus lampros, Herbst, Archiv, 164 (1781). 



Bembidium lampros, Jacq.-Duv. Ann. Soc. Ent. 9. 503. 



Carabus celer, Fab. Ent. S. 1. 167 (1792). Fab. S. El. 1. 210. 



Bembidium celere, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 17. Sturm, D. F. 6. 140. 

 Dej. Spec. 5. 157; Icon. 4. 421. pi. 219. Erichson, Kafer, 

 135. 



T achy pus celer, Steph. Mand. 2. 26. 



T.properans, Steph. Mand. 2. 26, et Manual, p. 58. 



T. acutus, chalceus et orichalceus, Steph. Mand. 2. 27, et Ma- 

 nual, p. 58. 



Var. /3. elytris striis punctatis apice evanescentibus 7 distinctis' 



pedibus totis rufescentibus. 



B. velox, Erichson, Kafer, 134. Heer, Faun. Helv. 134. 

 Lopha pulchella, Steph. Mand. 2. 23, et Manual, p. 57. 



Brassy, shining. Head with two deep parallel impressions 

 between the eyes ; antennae dull black, with the first and second 

 joints at the base more or less red and always so beneath ; palpi 

 dull pitchy. Thorax cordate, truncate before and behind, sides 

 dilated and rounded considerably in front, much contracted 

 behind, posterior angles right angles, disk very smooth and 

 convex on each side the dorsal furrow, base with a deep fovea 

 near each angle punctured within, the space between them being 

 also punctured. Elytra oblong-ovate, narrowed and rounded at 

 the shoulders, sides gradually and regularly rounded, disk con- 

 vex, having six punctured stria? distinctly marked, which vanish 

 before they reach the extremity, leaving the apex smooth, the 

 sides being also smooth, except that the outer margin has some 

 irregular impressions, and on the third interstice are two punc- 

 tures ; underside of the body black, legs red, tibiae often paler 

 testaceous. Length 1^ line. 



