CARABID^. BEMBIDIUM. 207 



the subgenus Cillenus by Dr. Leach, it has become necessary to 

 adopt the next in priority. The insect is now for the first time 

 introduced into the British Fauna on the authority of a single 

 example, which was captured by Mr. Steuart on Woking Common 

 in the summer of 1851, and is now in my possession. 



42. B. 4-maculatum : nigro-aneum, nitidum ; thorace subcor- 

 dato, postice coarctato, angulis posticis subacutis ; elytris 

 oblong 'o-ovatis, dorso punctato-striatis, maculis in singulo 

 duabus pallidis ; antennarum articulo 1, 2, 3 et 4 basi 

 pedibusque testaceis. 



Cincidela 4-maculata, Linn. S. N. 1. 658. 



Elaphrus 4-maculatus, 111. Kafer, 1. 232. 



Bembidium 4-maculatum, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 22. Dej. Spec. 5. 



187 ; Icon. 4. 454. pi. 223. Heer, Faun. Helv. 138. Jacq.- 



Duv. Ann. Soc. Ent. 9. 542. 

 Lopha 4-maculata, Steph. Mand. 2. 22, et Manual, p. 57. 



Head and thorax brassy black, with a faint greenish coppery 

 tinge, the former with parallel striae ; antennae and palpi obscure, 

 four joints at the base of the former red and the base of the palpi 

 testaceous. Thorax subcordate, the posterior angles very minutely 

 dentate, or subacute, the sculpture as in 4-guttatum. Elytra 

 oblong-ovate, lightly but distinctly punctate-striated almost to 

 the apex, with two pale testaceous patches on each, the form and 

 position of which are much the same as those in 4<-guttatum ; 

 underside bronzed black; legs testaceous, femora sometimes dusky. 

 Length 1| line. 



Common. 



(BEMBIDIUM pr.) 



43. B. bipunctatum : aneo-cuprewn, nitidum ; capite punctato ; 

 thorace subcordato, antice posticeque punctato ; elytris 

 punctato-striatis, foveolis duabus in singulo impressis ; 

 antennis pedibusque cmeo-nigris. 



Carabus bipunctatus, Linn. F. S. 806. Fab. S. El. 1. 209. 

 Bembidium bipunctatum, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 16. Dej. Spec. 5. 



98 ; Icon. 4. 365. pi. 212. Heer, Faun. Helv. 127.--Jacq.- 



Duv. Ann. Soc. Ent. 9. 493. 

 Tachypus bipunctatus, Steph. Mand. 2. 28, et Manual, p. 59. 



Above brownish coppery, or bronzed, very shining. Head 

 sparingly punctured on the crown and with a thickly punctured 

 oblong channel on each side; palpi and antennae black, the 

 latter rather short. Thorax subcordate, sides dilated and rounded 

 below the anterior angles, narrowed behind, the posterior angles 



