THE ENTOMOLOGICAL WRITINGS OF JOHN L. LECONTE, 



COMPILED BY SAMUEL HENSHAW. 

 EDITED BY GEOEGE DIMMOCK. 



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LeConte, John Lawrence. 



[Biog. sketch and por.] 



(Pop. sci. monthly, 1874, v. 5, p. 622-623.) 



Dr. L. was born in New York, May 13, l$i~>, and 

 w:ts the son of Major John Eatton LeConte, for- 

 merly of the l'. s. Army. Dr. L. graduated from 

 St. Mary's College, in Maryland, in 1842 and from 

 the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New 

 York, in 1846. He was President oi the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, for 

 1S74. "During the late civil war he entered the 

 army medical corps as surgeon of volunteers and 

 was promoted to the grade of Lieutenant-Colonel 

 and Medical Inspector U. S. A., in which capacity 

 he served until the mustering out of the inspec- 

 tors after the close of the war, in 1835." — Pop. sci. 

 monthly. 



] 

 Descriptions of new species of North American 

 coleoptera. 



(Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. of Phil., 1844, v. 2, p. 

 48-53.) 



Describes 23 species of carabidae from the middle 

 and southern states. 



Descriptions of some new species of coleopter- 

 ous insects inhabiting the United States. 



(Proc. Post. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1844, v. 1, p. 201.) 



Describes 9 and mentions2 species of cicindelidae. 

 carabidae, dytiscidae and cerambycidae, from the mid- 

 dle and western states. The same species are fig- 

 ured and described by LeConte in '-Descriptions 

 of some new and interesting insects inhabiting 

 the United States." 



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Descriptions of some new and interesting in- 

 sects, inhabiting the United States. 



(Bost.journ. nat, hist., 1845, v. 5, p. 203-209, 

 pi. 18.) 



Separate, [Post., 1845.] 7 p. 1 pi. t 16.5 X 0.5. 



Describes and figures 11 species of coleoptera. 

 The same species were described by LeConte in 

 "Descriptions of some new species of coleopterous 



insects inhabiting the United States." 



Fragmenta entomologica. 



(Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. of Phil., 1847, s. 2, v. 1, 

 p. 71-93.) 



Synoptic tables and descriptions of new North 

 American species of triplax, lycini, pedilus [cor- 

 phyra] and bothynus [li 'gyrus and apJwnus}, and des- 

 criptions of 17 species'" from the noddle, southern 

 and western states. 



Monograph of the species of pasimachus inhab- 

 iting the United States; with descriptions of two 

 new genera belonging to the family carabica. 



(Annals Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1848, v. 4, p. 

 141-154, pi. 7-8.) 



Describes and figures 12 species of pasimachus, 

 i wry lerus [noflwpus] zabroides, and psydrus piceus. 



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On certain coleoptera, indigenous to the east- 

 ern and western continents. 



(Annals Lvc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1848, v. 4, p. 

 159-163.) 



Mentions 8 species whose introduction cannot be 

 attributed to commerce ; general observations. 



A descriptive catalogue of the geodephagous 



coleoptera inhabiting the United Stales east of 

 the Rocky Mountains. 



(Annals Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1848, v. 4, p. 

 172-174, pi. 13-14.) 



Separate, [N. Y., 1848.] 144 p. t 16.5 X 9.5. 



Gives bibliographical references, notes locali- 

 ties, redescribes old and describes new species; 

 figures 14 species of cicindi la. 



The pages succeeding p. 233 are numbered 100 too 

 high. 



Synopsis of the coleopterous insects of the 

 group cleridae which inhabit the United States. 



(Annals Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 184!), v. 5, p. 

 9-35.) 



Separate, [N. Y., 1849.] 27 p. t 16.5 X 9.5. 



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General remarks upon the coleoptera of Lake 

 Superior. 



(Lake Superior, Agassiz and Cabot, Bost., 

 Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850, p. 201-242, 

 pi. 8.) 



List of species taken, descriptions of new spe- 

 cies, comparison of the tonus found in the nor- 

 thern new world with those of the old world, and 

 description of larva and pupa with remarks upon 

 the systematic position of eurypalpus [psephenus] 

 leconici. Figures 12 species. 



