A CATALOGUE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COLEOPTERA 

 DESCRIBED AS FOSSILS 



By H. F. Wickham 



The object of the following catalogue is to give a list of those species 

 actually described as fossils, not including the remains of recent species 

 which have been found in a fossil state. However, since the nvunber of 

 the latter is small, they have been enumerated at the end, in order that 

 the palaeontologist may be able to keep track of them. No references 

 to genera have been included, unless founded upon some specific citation 

 as well, for instance no notice would be taken of a record of "Elater sp." 

 or any similar assignment. The date of establishment of a generic name 

 is given only when the genus is based upon a fossil species and may 

 therefore be assumed to have become extinct, since information regard- 

 ing recent genera may be had by turning to the main portion of this work. 



The sequence of families and genera follows that of the recent 

 species, but since the names of the fossils are not numbered it has been 

 necessary to indicate synonyms by the abbreviation "syn." ' The 

 other abbreviations which seem to require explanation are as follows : — 



Periods Localities 



Cret. Cretaceous Flor. Florissant, Colo. 



Eoc. Eocene G. R. Green River, Wyo. 



Mioc. Miocene Greenl. Greenland 



Olig. Oligocene P. K. Port Kennedy, Pa. 



Pleist. Pleistocene Scar. Scarborough, Ont. Can. 



Tor. Toronto, Ont. Can. 



Vero Vero, Fla. 



Some difference of opinion exists as to the age of certain of these 

 deposits, but I have tried to follow usage well estabhshed in this country. 

 The plan of citing locahty as well as period wUl aid in checking up any 

 changes of assignment which may be made.- 



CARABIDiG 



Scaphinotus Pej. Carabus Linn, 



minor (Horn) 70-243 P. K. Pleist. jeffersoni Scudd. 00-15 Flor. Mioc. 



wheatleyi (Horn) 76-242 P. K. Pleist. ma-ander sangamon Wickh. 17a-139 



Nomaretus Lee. '"■ ^'^'^'^■ 



serus Scudd. ()0-l:i Flor. Mioc. Calosoma Web. 



XT *v. c jj nn ror calvini Wickh. 09-126 Flor. Mioc. 



Neothanes Scudd. 90-.535 coekerelli Wickh. 10-47 Flor. Mioc. 



testeus (Scudd.) 78a-75S G. R. Eoc. emmonsii Scudd. 00-16 Flor. Mioc. 



