202 CARABID^E. BEMBTDIUM. 



punctato-striatis ; antennarum basi pedibusque rufo-testa- 

 ceis. 



Sturm, D. F. 6. 149. pi. 159 (1825). Jacq.-Duv. Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. 9. 520. 



B. Mannerheimii, Dej. Spec. 5. 167; Icon. 4. 432. pi. 229. 

 Lopha niara, Steph. Mand. 2. 24 (1829), et Manual, p. 57. 



Black or pitchy black. Head less convex than in the pre- 

 ceding species, with two oblong frontal impressions very slightly 

 approximating in front ; antennas obscure black, the basal, 

 second and sometimes the third joints red. Thorax subcordate, 

 narrower, rounded on the sides and more contracted behind than 

 in Schuppelii, the posterior angles right angles, disk convex, 

 dorsal furrow fine and intersected by minute wavy wrinkles, 

 base with two fovese, the space between which is somewhat 

 depressed and punctulated. Elytra oblong-ovate, about twice 

 the width of the thorax, sides evenly rounded, very convex, 

 strongly punctate-striated on the disk, the striae becoming finer 

 at the apex and the punctures themselves wanting, the third 

 interstice with two small impressions ; legs wholly red. Length 

 1^ line. 



Dejean has quoted this species as Mannerheimii of Sahlberg, 

 but as the descriptions given by that author to represent his 

 insect by no means correspond with the characters of the one 

 before us, the appellation given to it by Sturm is now generally 

 adopted. 



It is very abundant in marshy districts. 



36. B. pusillum : nigrum, subcyaneum ; sulcis front alibus 

 parallelis ; thorace brevi subcordato, lateribus valde rotun- 

 dato, postice fortiter coarctato ; elytris oblong o-ovatis, 

 fortiter striato-punctatis ; antennis pedibusque brunneo- 

 nigris. 



Gyll. Ins. Suec. 4. 403. Dej. Spec. 5. 165; Icon. 4. 430. pi. 220. 



Erichson, Kafer, 136. Heer, Faun. Helv. 135. Jacq.-Duv. 



Ann. Soc. Ent. 9. 525. 



Lopha pulicaria, Steph. Mand. 2. 24, et Manual, p. 58. 



L. minima, Steph. Mand. 2. 24, et Manual, p. 58. 



Above black or blue-black. Head with two parallel frontal 

 furrows ; palpi and antennas obscure, the basal joint of the latter 

 in some examples reddish. Thorax short, subcordate, very much 

 rounded on the sides arid much narrowed behind, the lateral 

 margins acutely reflexed, especially behind, posterior angles 

 obliquely formed and a little elevated, convex, the dorsal furrow 



