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LICINUS DEPRESSUS. 
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Order Coleoptera. Fam. Carabidae Lat. y Leach . 
Type of the Genus Carabus cassideus Fab. 
Licinus Lat., Clair., Gyl., Sturm. Carabus Fab., Oliv., Payk., Panz. 
Antennae inserted in a cavity before the eyes, nearly filiform, 
1 1 -jointed, 3 first joints shining, with a few hairs, the remainder 
very pubescent ; 1st joint long, robust, clavate, 2nd small, 3rd 
not so long as the 4th, the remainder decreasing in length to 
the last, which is as long as the 4th, and elongate-conic (fig. 6). 
Labrum small transverse, corneous at the margin slightly emar- 
ginate, with 6 bristles inserted near the margin (1). 
Mandibles naked, broad at their base, truncated at the apex 
which is slightly emarginated (2). 
Maxillae small, bent, acute, dilated below internally, ciliated with 
rigid bristles : Palpi 2, internal scarcely longer than the man- 
dibles, 2-jointed, 1st joint clavate, 2nd cylindric-conic 5 external 
very long, 4-jointed, 1st joint minute, 2nd very long clavate, 
3rd long clavate-truncate, 4th large, hatchet-shaped (3). 
Mentum very broad, bilobed, the centre membranaceous, qua- 
drate, from the anterior margin of which arise scapes, coriaceous 
at their base, membranaceous at their apex, to which the palpi 
are attached : Palpi long, 3-jointed, 1st joint minute, 2nd long, 
with 3 bristles on the internal side, 3rd very large hatchet- 
shaped : Labium small, extending as far as the 1st joint of the 
palpi, membranaceous at the edges, slightly emarginate (4). 
Clypeus deeply emarginate. Eyes small. Head obtuse. Thorax or- 
bicular, emarginate before and behind. Scutellum minute. Body 
depressed. Elytra sinuated at their extremity . Wings, sometimes 
none. Tibiae, anterior emarginate, spined. Tarsi 5 -jointed, the 2 
first joints dilated in the males (5, fore leg of a male, from which 
sex all the dissections are drawn) . 
Depressus Payk. Faun. Suec. 1. 110. 18. Gyl. his. Suec. 2. 73. 1. 
Cassideus, 111. 1. 159. 23. Cossyphoides, Duft. 
Black shining. Head somewhat orbicular smooth, sparingly 
punctured. Thorax with the posterior margin less concave than 
the anterior, rather thinly and coarsely punctured, with a channel 
down the middle and a fovea at each posterior angle. Elytra 
(dull black in the female) with an abbreviated punctured stria 
next the scutellum and 8 others extending the whole length, 
equidistant, the surface between minutely punctured. Antennae 
towards the apex fuscous. Labium, spines of tibiae and claws 
ferruginous. 
In the Author's and other Cabinets. 
