THE GltOlNM) l!Ki:'l'I,KS. 



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;;i (lUTl. Cai.osoma scKiiTA'i'OK F:il>., Sys. 

 Kill.. 1. ITS.-,, i':'.<). 

 Oval, robust. Disk »>t' llu.rux blue or 

 purplish-black, the marsins golden or red- 

 (l.sh-bronzed; logs blue : jsbdomeu green and 

 rod. Tb(ira.\ very sliort. more than twice as 

 wide :is Iniig. ueai'ly sininiUi, sides and biml 

 aii,i:lf< nmnded. Mlylrn slri.-ilc. puiiri ui nl. 

 Middlf liltia' nf male ciirvrd ;ind willi a 

 (h-nse brush of hairs on llu' inner surl'ace 

 near llif tip. Length 28-;5U nun. (Fig. -"U. ) f" 



This lai'ge green species is one of the 

 most eonnuon and most handsome of the ^ 

 oronnd beetles. It occurs in all parts of Fig, u. 



the Stale and is often attracted by hund- 



dreds to the electric lights of the cities. It is sometimes called the 

 "searcher" or "caterpillar hunter," as it ascends trees in search of 

 caterpillars, catching and feeding upon many injurious forms. 

 Both it and C calidum give off a very disagreeable odor when 

 handled. IMay 11-July 14. 

 :V2 (128). Calosoma wii.wo.m Lee., Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., IV, 1S4S, 44<*,. 



Very sinular to scrutator but much smaller and with a narrower 

 thorax. Margin of elytra sometimes green. Middle tibife of male straight : 

 not hairy. Ijength 18 mm. 



Very conmion along the beach of Lake Michigan in May and 

 •Tune: less frequent in southern Indiana. April 26-June 10. Often 

 atti-acted 1)y electric light. 



;;:; (ll'in. Calosoma FRiciDUivr Kirby, Faun. Bor. Amer.. 



IV, 18:]7, 19. 



Oval, rather slender. Black above, greenish-black below; 



tliorax and elytra with narrow green margins. Head and 



iinrax sparsely and rugosely iiunctate. Elytra with fine 



lunctured stria^ each with three rows of distant, ronml. 



^■leen ini[)ressed spots. Length 20 mm. (Fig. 35.) 



A noi-thern species which has been taken in Indi- 

 ana only along the beach of Lake Michigan, where it 

 is found in May and June in small numbers. May 

 Fig. 35. 27-June 29. 

 34 (142). Calosoma calidum Fab., Syst. Fnt.. I, 1785, 237. 



Oval, robust. Black above and below; elytra with three rows of red 

 dish or comier colored pits. Head and thorax tinely rugose, not punctate, 

 the latter with broad basal impressions. Elytral striae deep, finely punc- 

 tured; intervals broad and. as in several of the other species, appearing as 

 if composed (.f overln|iping scales. Length 21-2:i mm. (Fig. .3<i.) 

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