1911] Champlain — Colcop'era from Connecticut 171 



light. On ]\Iay 10, Doctor Britton collected a perfect specimen 

 running upon the sidewalk during the daytime, and that night, 

 Mr. Walden and myself found it at the light. Mr. H. B. Kirk 

 captured a specimen in the same locality, July 7. Our records 

 show that it occurs as an adult from April 2 until November 3. 



Calosoma externum Say. Wallingford, July 20, taken by Mr. 

 D. J. Caffrey under bands placed for gypsy moth larvee. C. will- 

 coxi Lee. and C. frigidum Fabr. common, running over trees and 

 feeding upon canker worms during the period when these larvae 

 were the most plentiful. C. frigidum and C. calidum Fabr. common 

 at Wallingford under Gypsy Moth bands. 



Elaphrus fidiginosiis Say. Lyme, April 30. Two specimens 

 found in swamp. 



Clivina rubicunda Lee. Dr. W. E. Britton collected five exam- 

 ples of this rare species at Hamden, May 25, under stones along 

 a stream in the swamp. I found one specimen at Lyme, April 30, 

 in a similar situation. 



Patrobus rugicollis Rand. Middlefield. Prof. W. R. Coe. 



Pterostichus corruscidus Lee. Single specimens, New Haven, 

 February 5, March 21, and Pomfret, April 10. 



Pterostichus vitreiis Dej. Ridgefield, March 29, under stones. 

 Taken by J. K. Lewis. 



Pterostichus scrutator Lee. is found at Lyme in a swamp about 

 thirty feet in diameter. I have searched for it carefully through 

 all the neighboring country, but without success. It occurs 

 principally in the moss and grass clustered about the bases of 

 skunk cabbage and small bushes, occasionally under stones. I 

 have taken the adults in April, May, iVugust and December. 



Olisthopus jparmatus Say. New Haven, April 8, one specimen. 



Tachyscellus badiipennis Hald., and kirbyi Horn, New Haven, 

 not rare: T. nigrinus Dej., Pomfret, April 10, two specimens. 



MISCELLANEOUS, 



Xenodusa cava Lee. Lyme, May 1, several under stones with 

 ants. The trees on the station grounds are banded with tree 

 tanglefoot about five or six feet above the ground, principally 

 to catch the females of the fall canker worm; incidentally we 

 find quite a variety of insects thereon. On August 3, I found X. 



