The genus Licinus is one of the valuable additions made to 
our Fauna since the publication of the “ Entomologia Britan - 
nica” and I am happy in the opportunity of first recording it 
as a native of Britain. 
Although Licinus has many characters in common with 
Panagceus and Badister (which last was formerly considered 
by Latreille to be a Licinus ), it is readily distinguished from 
the former by its different habit, as well as by the obtuseness 
of the mandibles, and the absence of the emarginate process 
in the centre of the mentum, so common to the Car abides : 
from the latter it differs in having the posterior angles of the 
thorax rounded, in the emarginate elytra, in the triangular 
form of the terminal joint of the external maxillary palpus, 
and in having only 2 joints of the anterior tarsus dilated. 
The species selected to be figured was taken by my brother 
the 5th November 1810, upon Mousehold Heath, near Nor- 
wich, under a stone, with numerous fragments of other small 
Carabidce ; from which we are led to imagine that it feeds upon 
other insects, although the mandibles do not appear to be so 
well adapted to such uses as those of most of the Carabidce. 
Mr. Sparshall found another specimen the 15th May the fol- 
lowing year upon a bank in the same neighbourhood; and 
several were found afterwards by the late Mr. Griffin in a 
gravel-pit not far from the same city. It has also been taken 
I believe in Norfolk by the Rev. T. Skrimshire, and in York- 
shire by Mr. Watson; and from the females having dull 
elytra, that sex I understand has been called by the Rev. 
Mr. Kirby in his MSS., Carabus Watsonii, 
Carabus silphoides Fab. (Sturm’s Dent. Faun . tab. 74. f a) 
is another species of this genus not ascertained to be British 
until I took one running upon the Castle-hill at Dover the 
middle of August 1820 : there are, however, a pair in the Bri- 
tish Museum that Dr. Leach purchased in a collection formed 
at Dover. It inhabits also Italy, the South of France, and 
other warm countries of Europe. 
Carabus cassideus Fab. (Clairville’s Ent. Helv . tab. 16. f a), 
emarginatus Oliv. and Lat., the species from which the dis- 
sections were made, is also believed to be a native of Britain, 
from a specimen in our Museum which is said to have been 
taken here : it is certain that our climate is more likely to 
produce this species than the last, since it is not only found 
in the South of Europe, but Clairville informs us even in 
Prussia, under stones. 
Anagallis arvensis (Scarlet Pimpernel or Poor-man’s Wea- 
ther-glass) is figured with the insect. 
