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XXVIII. Genus BEMBIDIUM. Lat. 



(86) 1. Bembidium impressum. (Gyllenhal.) Impressed Bembidium. 



Bembidium impressum. Gyll. Ins. Suec. ii, 13, 2. De J. Cat. 16. Sturm. Deutsch. Fn. v, 177, 45. Steph. Illustr. 



Mandib. ii, 32. 

 Carabus velox. Linn. Fn. Suec. 803. Iter. Oeland. 207. Syst. Nat. ii, 672, 31 ? 

 Elaphrus impressus. Fab. Syst. Eleuth. i, 246, 4. Illig. Kaf. Preuss. i, 277, 6. Panz. Fn. Germ, xl, t. 8. 



striatus. Payk. Fn. Suec. i, 175, 3. 



littoralis. Oliv. Ent. ii, 6, 34, 4 ; t. i, / 7. 



Cicindela striata. Marsh. Ent. Brit, i, 393, 7. 



Length of the body 2j lines. 



Taken frequently in Lat. 54°. and 65°. and in the Journey from New York to 

 Cumberland-house. On the sandy shores of Lake Winnipeg in the spring of 

 1825 ? Mr. Drummond. In Canada. Dr. Bigsby. 



This little insect appears pretty generally dispersed. In England it has been 

 rarely met with ; the only known British specimen was in the late Mr. Marsham's 

 collection, and is now in Mr. Stephens'. The former gentleman, in his description, 

 refers to Mr. Donovan's cabinet. I have seen specimens taken by Mr. Wilkin in 

 Flanders ; and Oliver informs us, for there can be no doubt with respect to his 

 synonym, though hitherto overlooked by Entomologists, that it is found on the 

 banks of the Seine near Paris. It is found in Sweden, Major Gyllenhal informs 

 us, on the sandy shores of lakes, where it is remarkable, in warm weather, for the 

 promptitude and celerity of its motions both on the earth and in the air : and Mr. 

 Drummond observes, I have no doubt with respect to this insect rather than Seri- 

 coda bembidioides, 7 "that it runs in the sand with great agility, and frequently flies 

 when attempted to be taken." Linne also observes of his Carabus velox, which 

 the Entomologists of Sweden hold to be a variety of it, that it runs and flies with 

 the most velocity of any coleopterous insect : a circumstance, which as well as its 

 large eyes, proves its title, in common with Elaphrus, to claim some affinity with 

 the Euptera, (Cicindela L.) 



7 See above p. 15. 



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