Ho. 9.— 1856-8,] new ceylon coleoptera. &7 

 58. Bembidium Kluqii. N a . 



B. ovatum, convexum, seneum, elytris maculi3 2 subapiealibus ruso- 

 flavis, subtus pieeum, pedibus dilutioribus, tibiis, tarsis antemiarumque 

 basi testaceis ; long, corp. 1^ liru 



Capite inter oculo3 longitud. 2-impresso, oculis maximis, antennis art. 

 2° sequentibus parum bre-viore, his subgequalibus ; thorace transversim 

 ovato, antice posticeque truncato, baud emarginato, basi abrupte angus- 

 tato quadrato, angulis basalibus profunde foveolatis inter foveis punctis 

 1-seriatim impresso, linea media longit. subtili diviso ; elytris ovatis 

 apicem versus leviter angustatis, ntrinque profunde 7-punctato-striatis, 

 basi lsevi, striis apicem versus obsoletis, ante apicem inter strias 3-6 ma- 

 cula orbiculari rufo-flava apiceque impressione semicirculari. 



In prov. occid. et central.,. hie usque alt. 3500 ped., non infrequenter 

 legi. 



This species ascends from the sea level of the Western 

 Province to an elevation of 3,500 feet in the hills, where 1 

 have not unfrequently met it upon the sandy banks of the 

 Pundalu-Oyaj a rocky mountain-stream in the district of 

 Kotmale. Its robust, ovate, convex shape places it at once in 

 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 antennae, are yellowish, joint 3 of the maxill. palpi, 

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

 is square and entire, the second 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 foveas 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 

 furrows decrease in length towards the margin and in depth 

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

 on either side, which go 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 



