CAKABID.E. BEMBIDIUM. 203 



slender, very minutely wrinkled on each side, the base depressed 

 and furnished with numerous minute punctures which give it a 

 finely rugose appearance, the fovese small, deep and punctured 

 within. Elytra oblong-ovate, humeral angles rounded but not 

 narrowed, sides very little rounded, disk moderately convex, 

 strongly punctate-striated, the punctured striaa entire on the sides 

 but effaced at the extremity, the third interstice with an impression 

 rather before the middle very distinct and another less evident 

 behind, in rarer instances there is an indistinct reddish spot be- 

 hind near the outer margin and sometimes the apex itself is rusty 

 red; underside of the body and the legs black, tibise a little 

 brownish. Length 1^ line. 



Lopha pulicaria and minima of the Stephensian cabinet are 

 identical with this species. Stephens has given as one of the 

 characters of the former insect, ' oblique frontal striae/ but this 

 was probably through inadvertency. Whether Lopha nana, Steph., 

 is to be referred as a small variety to this species I cannot deter- 

 mine, as that name has no representative in the Stephensian 

 cabinet. 



Common. 



(LOPHA, Megerle.) 



37. B. doris : (meo-mgrum, nitidum ; sulcis frontalibus obliquis, 

 profunde impressis ; thorace cordato, postice fortiter 

 coarctato, angulis posticis prominulis ; elytris oblongo- 

 ovatis, punctato-striatis, apice maculaque rotundata ante 

 apicem rufis ; antennis basi pedibusque rufo-testaceis. 



Carabus doris, Panz. Faun. 38 (1789-1810). 



Elaphrus doris, 111. Kafer, 1. 232 (1798). 



Bembidium doris, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 24. Sturm, D. F. 6. 170. 

 Dej. Spec. 5. 172 ; Icon. 4. 437. pi. 221. Erichson, Kafer, 

 137. Heer, Faun. Helv. 136. Jacq.-Duv. Ann. Soc. Ent. 9. 

 529. 



Brassy black, sometimes greenish or bluish. Head broader 

 than in the next species, with two oblique frontal furrows strongly 

 marked, which approximate and unite in front (PL II. f. 17); palpi 

 and antennae obscure with their base red. Thorax cordate, very 

 convex, sides rounded more in front and not so much in the 

 middle as in the preceding species, lateral margins very fine and 

 not reflexed, the posterior angles rather prominent, the dorsal 

 furrow and the usual transverse impression in front slenderly 

 marked, the base with two fovese and a puncture on each side 

 the termination of the dorsal line as in the next species. Elytra 

 oblong-ovate, convex, strongly striated, the striae distinctly 

 punctured, the punctured stria? effaced at the apex and on the 



