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BULLETIN 417, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 



1896. FoRBUSH, E. H., and Fernald, C. H. The Gipsy Moth. Mass. Bd. Agr., 



495+c p., 66 pL, 34 fig. 

 Pags 383; Brief account of its feeding habits. 



1897. Burgess, A. F. Notes on certain Coleoptera known to attack the gipsy 



moth. In 44tli Ann. Rpt. Mass. State Bd. Agr. f . 1896, p. 412-43] , pi. 3-5. 

 Page 418. Fulllife-history notes with descriptions or the different stages. 



1898. Burgess, A. F. Notes on predaceous beetles, 1897. In 45th Ann. Rpt. 



Mass. State Bd. Agi". f. 1897, p. 402-411. 

 Page 406. Contains notes on reproduction and field observations. 



1908. Patch, Edith M. The Saddled Prominent, Heterocampa guttivitta Walker. 

 Maine Agr. Expt. Sta. Bui. 161, p. 309-350, fig. 14-40. 

 Brief notes on the abundance of adults and larvee which were preying upon the above lepidop- 

 terous pest. 



1910. Blatchley, W. S. The Coleoptera or Beetles of Indiana. 1386 p., 590 fig. 

 Page 47. Brief description and notes on occurrence. 



1910. Burgess, A. F. Notes on Calosoma frigidum Ivirby, a native beneficial 

 insect. In Jour. Econ. Ent., v. 3, p. 217-222. 

 Notes on the abundance of the species in the White Mountains, N. H., where there were outbreaks 

 of Heterocampa gutUvitta. It was found on August 21-23. 1909. that an avera;:e of 54 per cent of the 

 pup£e had been destroyed hj frigidum larvse, and they were still present and feeding. 



1910. FiSKE, W. F., and Burgess, A. F. The natural control of Heterocampa gutti- 

 vitta. In Jour. Econ. Ent., v. 3, no. 5, p. 389-394. 



Contains notes and tables to the effect that 87 per cent of the Heterocampa guttivitta pupae in local- 

 ities of the White Mountain regiou were destroyed hy frigidum larvae during August, 1909, and that 

 3.66 per cent died from the attack of parasites or from other causes. 



CALOSOMA INQUISITOR (L.). 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



[Translation.] 



Elytra striate, greenish -bronze: punctures in triple row. 



Roland act. Stockls. 1750, p. 292, t. 7, f. 3. Oarabus, winged, greenish-coppery, 

 punctate and striate concavely, feet and antennae black. 

 Habitat in trees of Europe, living on larv;^ of Papilio and Phalaenalis. 

 Elytra golden, with green margin. Thorax, very short. 



EARLY RECORDS OF THE SPECIES. 



Tliis very interesting species was described by Linnaeus in 1758 as 

 Oarabus inquisitor. Since that time it has attracted the attention of 

 many prominent European entomologists, judging from the many 

 short and unique accomits written about it. Linnaeus, in 1758 and 

 1761, gave its habitat as Europe, destrojring larvse of Papiho and 

 Phalsenahs in trees. PaykuU, in 1790, gave a lengthy and compre- 

 hensive description, giving the habitat as forests and gardens. Pan- 

 zer, in J. G. Voet's " Beschreibungen mid Abbildungen Hartschaa- 

 Mgter Lisekten, " Col. Tab. 38, fig. 39, 1793, presents a life-size col- 

 ored figm"e of the adult. Description and references to the species 

 are made in 1795 by Ohvier, who says that "* * * it is found 

 ordinarily on trees, principally oaks, where it catches different insects 

 on wliich it is nourished. " 



Geoffroy, in 1799, fists what is undoubtedly this species under 

 Buprestis; and Fabricius, in 1801, the year that Friedrich Weber 

 estabfished the genus Calosoma, placed this species under the latter 

 genus. Thomas Marsham, in 1802, fists this species as Buprestis 

 sycopJianta minor, and P. A. Latreille, in 1804, included it under Calo- 

 soma, where it has remained mi til the present time. Latreille reported 

 it as being fomid about Paris but less commonly than O. syco- 

 pJianta L. 



