74 Description of New 



have not unfrequefttly met it upon the sandy banks of the 

 Pundhool-Oya, a rocky mountain-stream in the district ofKot- 

 malie. Its robust, ovate, convex shape places it at once into 

 a different division from any of the former. It is of bronze 

 color with two orange colored spots behind, the mouth is brown 

 with the exception of the palpi which, together with joints 1 

 and 2 of the antennas, are yellowish, joint 3 of the maxill. palpi, 

 however, is of the general color of the mouth. The labrum 

 is square and entire, the 2nd antennal joint is rather shorter 

 than the rest. The thorax is transversely ovate, that is to 

 say, its greatest width is at the middle, not as in a cordate 

 thorax before it, the fovese are connected by a series of punc- 

 tures which gradually deepen towards the centre, the longitud. 

 divisional line is also deeper at the apical extremity than at 

 the other parts. The elytra are impressed with seven deep fur- 

 rows on either side deeply punctured at the bottom. These 

 farrows decrease in length towards the margin and in depth 

 towards the apex, with the exception, however, of the first 

 on either side which goes straight down to the apex. At the 

 latter comparatively smooth place is the semicircular impres- 

 sion noticed in the three preceding and to be noticed in all the 

 following species. The base of the elytra is smooth. There 

 are no traces of punctures, such as are usual in the region of 

 the 3rd or 4th interstice, observable. The lower side of the 

 insect is of pitch color, the basal part of the legs and the thighs 

 are lighter and the tibiae and tarsi quite so. 



59. Bembidium ebeninum. N. 



B. ovatum, convexum, nigrum ely tris ante apicem maculis 2 rufo-flavis, 

 subtus piceum, pedibus paipis antennisque testaceis, his apicem versus 

 obscurioribus, reliquis oris partibus brunneis; long. corp. 1£ lin. 



Prsecedenti affine, ejus capite et thorace, facillime tamen distinguendum 

 prseter colorem antennis fortius filiformibus, elytris lasvibus juxta sutu- 

 ram utrinque 2-striatis, striis basi abbreviatis, externa apicem versus 



