OF THE 



VOL. IV. BROOKLYN, JAN. & FEB., 1882. Nos. 9. & 10. 

 Descriptions of New Species. 



By Henry Ulke. 



(Preprint from the Report upon Geographical and Geological Explorations and 



Surveys west of the 100th meridian, in charge of 1st Lieut. G. M. Wheeler 



etc., 1875. Vol. V, chapter XI, pp. 811-813.) 



Bembidium nevadense. 



Greenish-black, shining, subdepressed; upper and under surface 

 brightly shining; thorax subquadrate, a little broader than long; sides 

 rounded, margined, narrower at the base; hind angles rectangular, ob- 

 liquely carinated, and at the base wrinkled; elytra finely striato-punctate, 

 punctures diminishing toward the apex; interstitial lines depressed; at the 

 humerus and before the apex dark rufous spots; antennae deep piceous; 

 basal joints rufous; legs dark brown. Length, .20 inch =5 mm. New 

 This species is allied to B. lucidum, bimaculalum, etc. , but is more black- 

 ish, and a little smaller. 



Dasytes ruflcollis. 



Body testaceous, shining and clothed with grayish pubescence; head 

 and thorax reddish-yellow, finely punctured, clothed with cinereous pu- 

 bescence, the latter rounded and wider than lung; elytra dark-bronzed, 

 with the sides anil apex reddish-yellow, finely punctured and clothed with 



