CARABID^E. BEMBIDIUM. 209 



It is very abundant on the gravelly beaches of rivers in the 

 north of England, in Scotland and Wales. " Durham ; by the 

 Ouseburn and Derwent in April and June." Mr. Bold. Coasts 

 of Lancashire and Cumberland ; Midgeley Moor ; shores of the 

 Thames at Richmond and Kew, &c. 



45. B. pallidipenne : capite thoraceque viridi-aneis ; capite 

 punctato; thoracesubcordatOipostice coarctato punctatoque ; 

 elytris ovatis, punctato-striatis, pallide testaceis, fascid 

 transversa dentata in medio retrorsum product^ fusco- 

 senea; antennis pedibusque testaceis. 



Elaphrus pallidipennis, 111. Mag. 1. 489. 



Tacky pus pallidipennis, Steph. Manual, p. 59. 



Bembidium pallidipenne, Jacq.-Duv. Ann. Soc. Ent. 9. 487. 



B. Andrea, Gyll. Ins. Suec. 2. 15. Dej. Spec. 5. 96 ; Icon. 4. 



363. pi. 212. 

 Tacky pus Andrea, Steph. Mand. 2. 29. 



Head and thorax metallic green, or coppery, the former closely 

 punctured and with a small fovea on each side ; antennse short 

 and stout and together with the mandibles and palpi entirely 

 testaceous ; eyes black and prominent. Thorax subcordate, sides 

 dilated and rounded below the anterior angles, narrowed behind, 

 disk convex, the base depressed and thickly punctured, the basal 

 fovese very shallow, the lateral margins sometimes very finely and 

 sparingly punctured, the dorsal line met in front by a transverse 

 depression and intersected by numerous fine wrinkles. Elytra 

 ovate, convex, testaceous yellow, scutellum greenish, a triangular 

 space at the base of the suture together with a transverse dentate 

 or deeply waved band a little behind the middle brownish bronze, 

 disk punctate-striated about as far as the middle, the punctured 

 striae effaced at the extremity, the third interstice with two more 

 distinct small impressions ; legs testaceous. Length 2 lines. 



This insect is not uncommon on the sedgy brinks of little 

 streams and rills that run into the sea on the coasts of Norfolk, 

 Suffolk, Essex, Dorset and Devon, &c., and is found in similar 

 localities in the north of England, in Scotland and Ireland. 

 From its habit of remaining concealed during the day at the roots 

 of moist sedgy grass, it is very liable to be overlooked. I have 

 found it on the edge of a little stream that runs down to the 

 Smallmouth sands near Weymouth, by treading the wet herbage, 

 which brings them out of their places of concealment ; though 

 several entomologists, myself among the number, had previously 

 searched the sides of that little rill without detecting it ; and I 

 have procured it under similar circumstances near Barmouth on 



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