The true Carabi possess a very remarkable power, for when 
pursued and alarmed they are able to spirt from the apex of 
the abdomen an excessively acrid and I suspect a gaseous fluid, 
which occasions a very severe pricking sensation when it falls 
on the skin, but the pain is of short duration. 
There are now considerably above 2000 species known of 
this family alone, from different parts of the globe, and Dejean 
enumerates 163 species of the genus Carabus: in this island 
the following only have been discovered. 
1. C. intricatus L. — Don. 15. 526. 1. — cyaneus Fab . — Ashburton, and 
end of May under a stone in a wood opposite the Virtuous 
Lady’s Mine on the river Tavy, below Tavistock, Devon. 
2. C. catenulatus Fab. — Panz . 4. 6. — intricatus Fab. — June, middle of 
October. Heaths, Norfolk and Isle of Wight; mountains, Cum- 
berland, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. 
3. C. Lippii Dahl. — Dej. Icon. pi. 37. f. 4. — Mr. Samouelle informs me 
this is not the C. agrestis, the insect described by Mr. Stephens. 
It is said to have been taken in Lincolnshire. 
4. C. monilis F. — catenulatus Marsh. — Common everywhere. 
5. C. consitus Panz. 108. 3. — Near London, and middle of July, Dover, 
J. C. 
6. C. cancellatus III. — granulatus Steph. 1. 51. 7* — Spring, in a chalk-pit 
near Gravesend, Mr. Ingpen. 
7- C. granulatus Linn.' — Don. 7. 222. 3. — cancel! atus.F«6., Sleph. — May, 
gardens and pathways everywhere ; December, under bark of 
willows. 
8. C. arvensis Fab. — Panz. 74. 3 ; & 81. 3. — June, beginning of July, 
heaths and roots of trees Epping and New Forests, Wimbledon 
Common, Devon, mountains Ambleside, Isle of Arran and Ireland. 
9- C. violaceus L. — Don. 7. 222. 1. — Panz. 4, 4.— June, July, September, 
October, roots of trees, under stones, gravel-pits, &c. everywhere 
in England, but rare in Ireland. 
9 a . C. exasperatus Duff. — Curt. B. E. pi. 44 6. — I took a female of this 
rare insect the 24th of June 1831, under a block of stone near a 
quarry in the Isle of Portland, but no one has been able to find 
another since. 
10. C. glabratus F. — Dow. 15.506. — June, mountains Ambleside, amongst 
long grass. July, Scotland and Ireland. 
11. C. convexus F. — Steph. pi. 4. /. 2. — Said to have been taken in Long- 
mont Forest, Shropshire, by the Rev. F. W. Hope. 
12. C. nemoralis III. — hortensis F. — gemmatus Don. 7- 222. 2. — June, in 
gardens, Norfolk ; under stones and dead leaves near London ; 
also in Scotland and Ireland. 
13. C. clathratus L.—Don. 15. 526. 2.—-April, in drills, Halvergate 
marshes, Norfolk, in Scotland and on the coast of Ireland. 
14. C. auratus L. — Ste. pi. 3. f. 6. — Exmouth Devon, Canterbury and 
near Dover, Mr. H. Griesbach : this specimen is stated by Mr. 
Stephens to be the C. auronitens of Fab., a species that has never 
been found in England. 
15. C. nitens L. — Don. 9- 313. — This splendid insect has been taken in 
May in the New Forest, on Hurn and Pool Heaths, Dorset ; 
Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland, near Carlisle; end of July, 
very moist places on mountains, Ambleside ; Kinnordy Forfar- 
shire, where some are nearly black from age ; also near Belfast. 
The Plant is Atropa Belladonna (Deadly Nightshade). 
