204 CARABID^E. BEMBIDIUM. 



sides, the third interstice with two small impressions and the 

 exterior margin with a round red spot at no great distance from 

 the apex, which latter is sometimes pale and the red colour 

 occasionally suffused over the whole extremity ; underside black, 

 legs testaceous red. Length 1^ line. 



This species is very liable to be confounded with B. normannum, 

 which however is a somewhat narrower insect and has the frontal 

 furrows parallel, for which reason I have assigned Lopha pusilla 

 and hcemorrhoidalis, Steph., to that species, though Dr. Schaum 

 in his notes referred them to this ; all the examples however in 

 the Stephensian cabinet (with one exception, which is placed on 

 one side with the MS. name virescens) evidently = normannum. 

 Nearly all the specimens in British collections which stand 

 under the name doris will, I suspect, prove identical with nor- 

 mannum. 



Found rarely in salt marshes. 



38. B. normannum : obscure viridi-esneum, nitidum ; sulcis 

 frontalibus parallelis ; thorace cordato, postice fortiter 

 coarctato, angulis posticis rectis ; elytris oblongo-ovatis, 

 punctato-striatis, apice antennarum basi pedibusque rufo- 

 testaceis. 



Dej. Spec. 5. 164; Icon. 4. 429. pi. 220. Heer, Faun. Helv. 

 135. Jacq.-Duv. Ann. Soc. Ent. 9. 522. 



Var. ft. elytris oblongo-ouatis, macula postica rotundata apiceque 

 rufo-testaceis. 



Lopha pusilla et assimilis, Steph. Manual, p. 57. 

 L. hcemorrhoidalis, Steph. Mand. 5. 387, et Manual, p. 58. 



Above obscure greenish bronze. Head smaller than that of 

 doris, with two parallel frontal furrows (PI. II. f. 16), antennae 

 dusky, with the basal and sometimes the two next joints red. 

 Thorax cordate, very convex, widest and rounded before the 

 middle, considerably contracted behind, posterior angles right 

 angles, base with an oblique deep fovea placed close within the 

 angle, the space between them and the slender dorsal furrow 

 with some faint punctuation. Elytra oblong-ovate, sides very 

 slightly rounded, very convex, punctate-striated, but with the 

 apex smooth, the third interstice with the usual impressions, 

 near the outer margin at no great distance from the apex is a 

 red spot, often obsolete, sometimes very widely diffused and of a 

 greater or less depth of colour, and sometimes the apex itself 

 alone is red ; underside black, legs testaceous red, femora occa- 

 sionally obscure. Length 1^ line. 



The individuals standing under the names Lopha pusilla, 



