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Descriptions of a few supposed new species of North American COLEOPTERA. 
No. 2. 
BY JAMES H. B. BLAND. 
Bembidium Wingatei n. sp. 
Piceous, tinged with dark rufous; antenn* and legs rufo-fulvous. 
Hah. Pennsylvania. (Coll. Ent. Soc. Phila.) 
Body piceous. Head dark rufous, smooth and shining; palpi yel¬ 
lowish. Antennae rufo-fulvous, hairy, more than half the length of 
the body. Thorax subcordate, blackish, very smooth and shining ; the 
anterior and posterior margins-dark rufous. A well impressed longitu¬ 
dinal dorsal line; base with a few scattered punctures and having on 
each side a deep rounded impression; posterior angles rather promi¬ 
nent. Elytra oblong, piceous tinged with rufous at base and apex, 
shining; disk flattened, with two dorsal punctures on the third stria 
of each elytron, the anterior puncture situated before the middle and 
the other at the posterior third; striae neatly punctured, well impressed 
at base, becoming obsolete at tip, interstices slightly convex, impunc- 
tured. Beneath dark brown, shining; abdominal segments reddish- 
brown, paler towards the apex. Legs rufo-fulvous. Length lines. 
Collected near Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, by Dr. J. D. Wingate, and 
presented by him to the Society. 
Helops gracilis n. sp. 
Elongate, black tinged with cupreous; antennae with the apical joint 
as long as the third joint; elytra striated. 
Hah. New Jersey. (Coll. Ent. Soc. Phila.) 
Body elongate, black tinged with cupreous, shining. Head densely 
punctured, black; front profoundly impressed. Antennae black, apical 
joint robust and as long as the third joint. Thorax densely punctured, 
slightly convex and somewhat narrowed in front, with the sides 
rounded, a shallow depression on the middle of the lateral margins. 
Scutellum rounded at tip, black, smooth and shining. Elytra wider 
than the thorax, elongate, sides parallel, gradually rounded at tip; 
striae entire, rather finely impressed, neatly and regularly punctured; 
interstices smooth and flat. Beneath black, shining, finely punctured. 
Legs black. Length 4-—4J lines. 
