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dirty yellowish color prolonged on either, side along the 

 margin, which is here rather broad. 



If my memory serves me right, the insect resembles the 

 Tachypus flavipes. 



54. Bembidium truncatum. JSF. 



B. oblongum, valde depressum, brunneo-testaceum, oculis nigris, 

 pedibus, an tennis palpisque pallide testaceis ; long. corp. 1£ lin, 



Capite magno, thorace quarta parte prope minore, inter antennas 

 2-foveolato, oculis mediocribus, antennis art. 3° reliquis minore, 4-11 

 subaequalibus fortius ovatis ; thorace breviter cordato, antice posticeque 

 truncato, baud emarginato, basi subquadrato parum prolongato, foveis 

 basalibus obsoletis sed linea basali latitud. profunda lineaque longitud. 

 med. distinctis; elytris oblongis apice transversim truncatis, juxta suturam 

 utrinque obsolete 1-striatis, ante et infra med. puncto impressis. 



In prov. occid. rarius. 



The small size, large head and truncated elytra effectually 

 distinguish this species. The truncated posterior angles of 

 the thorax and the general appearance induce me to consider 

 it allied to the preceding species, at all events to approach 

 nearer to it than to any of the following species. The eyes 

 are rather small for this genus. There are no traces of strise on 

 the elytra with the exception of one indistinct one along the 

 suture. 



55, Bembidium tropicum. N. 



B. oblongum, depressum, brunneo-testaceum capite brunneo, elytris 

 dorso nigris cyaneo-micantibus, pedibus, antennis palpisque testaceis ; 

 long. corp. 1^ lin. 



Capite inter oculos 2-fovelato- sulcato, oculis mediocribus, antennis 

 fortius filiformibus art. 3° reliquis breviore ; thorace breviter transversim 

 cordato antice posticeque truncato, haud emarginato, basi subquadrato 

 angulis basalibus elevatis sed haud foveolatis, linea latitud. basali pro- 

 funda, infra lineam strigoso, linea media longit. diviso ; elytris oblongo- 

 ovatis utrinque juxta suturam 4-striatis, striis externis et his apicem 

 versus obsoletis, in striis punctatis, infra marginem stria profunda 

 abbreviata, ante medium et apicem in interstitio 4o puncto magno im- 

 pressis, punctis anteapicalibus piliferis in sulcum ad apicem prolongatis 

 semicirculum formantibus ; tarsis 4 anterioribus art. 4° subtus apice 

 spinis squamulaceis 2 instructo. 



In prov. occid. copiosum. 



