210 CARABID^E. BEMBIDIUM. 



the Welsh coast. Lough Neagh and Killarney are among its 

 Irish localities. 



46. B. paludosum : aneo-cupreum ; thorace subquadrato, angulis 

 posticis obliquis acutiusculis ; elytris oblongis, punctato- 

 striatis, foveolis duabus oblongis argenteis in singulo 

 irapressis. 



Elaphrus paludosus, Panz. Faun. 20. 



Bembidium paludosum, Sturm, D. F. 6. 179. Steph. Mand. 2. 



30, et Manual, p. 59. Dej. Spec. 5. 79 ; Icon. 4. 354. pi. 21 1 . 



Erichson,Kafer, 125. Heer,Faun. Helv. 126. Jacq.-Duv. 



Ann. Soc. Ent. 9. 473. 



Above purplish brass variegated with copper, extremely brilliant 

 during life. Head flattish, slightly channeled on each side 

 between the eyes; antennae obscure with the base coppery. 

 Thorax wider than the head, somewhat quadrate, the breadth 

 being very little greater than the length, anterior margin truncate, 

 with merely the angles minutely prominent, sides very little 

 rounded in front and only slightly narrowed behind, posterior 

 angles minute and acute, the base being obliquely sloped upwards 

 towards them so as to render them slightly prominent, the dorsal 

 furrow entire, transversely wrinkled, and intersected in front by 

 a shallow curved impression and behind by another which extends 

 along the base between the two basal fovese ; the latter are deeply 

 impressed. Elytra oblong-ovate, broadest from below the 

 humeral angles to behind the middle, thence gradually narrowed 

 to the extremity, disk convex, deeply punctate-striated, the 

 striae entire, but the punctures effaced towards the apex, the 

 first and second striae unite at the extremity, the third and fourth 

 and also the fifth and sixth are rather shorter and unite in pairs, 

 the third interstice is broader than the others and bears two 

 oblong silvery shallow pits, one about the middle, the other 

 further behind, each with a minute puncture within it, the fourth 

 and fifth striae are sinuated about the middle and occasionally 

 some of the others also ; in fine fresh examples (but especially 

 during life) all the spaces between the suture and the fourth stria 

 are shining purplish copper, whilst the fifth, sixth and seventh 

 interstices have patches of the same brilliant colour, the rest of 

 the elytra being of a shining greenish copper colour, but the 

 surface more or less variegated in different individuals; the 

 underside of the body and the legs are obscure greenish bronze, 

 base of the thighs testaceous. Length 21 lines. 



Plentiful on the banks of the Tees; near Sheffield, and Carlisle ; 

 " Mitford and the banks of the Till ; banks of the Derwent near 



