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CARABID^E. BEMBIDIUM. 



Carabus 4-guttatus, Fab. Mant. 1. 205. Fab. S. El. 1. 207. 



Elaphrm 4-guttatus, 111. Kafer, 1. 233. 



Bembidium 4-guttatum, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 21. Dej. Spec. 5. 



183; Icon. 4. 450. pi. 222. Heer, Faun. Helv. 137. 



Jacq.-Duv. Ann. Soc. Ent. 9. 537. 

 Lopha 4-ffuttata, Steph. Mand. 2. 22. 



Head and thorax brilliant brassy black, or sometimes with a 

 greenish gloss, the former with two oblong rugose impressions 

 parallel to each other ; mouth, palpi and antennae brownish, the 

 bases of the two latter testaceous. Thorax oblong, heart-shaped, 

 very convex, much narrowed behind, posterior angles not pro- 

 minent, basal fovese broad with a fine punctuation between them, 

 the dorsal and anterior transverse lines slender. Elytra oblong- 

 ovate, rather wide, punctate-striated at the base only, the third 

 interstice with two and the outer margin just below the shoulder 

 with several deeper impressions, disk moderately convex, brilliant 

 shining brassy black, with two whitish testaceous spots on each, 

 one angularly formed placed a little below the shoulder and 

 another smaller and round one a little behind the middle near 

 the outer margin, but neither of them touching it ; underside 

 bronzed black ; legs pale, with the knees and edges of the femora 

 dusky. Length 2 lines. 



Common. 



41 . B. callosum : subteneo-nigrum, nitidum ; thorace oblongo- 

 cordato, angulis posticis subrectis ; elytris oblong o-ovatis, 

 antice levius punctato-striatis, maculis in singulo duabus 

 pallidis, lateraliter junctis; antennis basipedibusque pallidis. 

 (PI. III. f. C.) 



Kust. Kafer, 9. 23 (1847). Jacq.-Duv. Ann. Soc. Ent. 9. 540 

 (1851). 



B. laterale, Dej. Spec. 5. 185 ; Icon. 4. 452. pi. 222. Heer, 

 Faun. Helv. 137. 



This species very nearly resembles 4-guttatum, but is rather 

 smaller, narrower and more delicately formed; the principal 

 characters which distinguish it from that species are stated as 

 follows : the colour of a deeper black ; the base of the first joint 

 of the antennae alone testaceous red; the elytra more finely 

 striated and the punctuation more minute, the humeral spot 

 continued, but more narrowly along the lateral margin till it 

 unites with the lower one which is smaller and less round than 

 the corresponding one in 4-guttatum ; in other respects they do 

 not differ. Length 2 lines. 



This species was first named by Dejean laterale, but as that 

 name had previously been applied to the insect which represents 



