THE GENUS CALOSOMA. 67 



1852. GuYONT, G. Capture of Calosoma sycophanta in the Isle of Wight. In 



Zoologist, 1852, p. 3359. 

 1854. Dawson. Geodephaga Britannica. A Monograph of the Carnivorous Groxind- 

 beetles Indigenous to the British Isles, xx+224 p., 3 pi. 

 Page 42. Description with notes on its occm-rence in localities of Britain. The author does not 

 consider the species as tnily indigenous to that country. 



1857. Plant, F. Captui'es of Coleoptera in Leicestershire. In Zoologist, v. 15, 

 p. 5514. 



1860. Hayward, W. H. Captiu-e of Calosoma sycophanta near Penzance. In Zool- 

 ogist, V. 18, p. 7290. 



1860. Morse, A. C. Calosoma sycophanta in the Isle of Wight. In Zoologist, v. 18, 

 p. 7157. 



1863. Reading, J. J. C. sycophanta in Devonshire. In Zoologist, v. 21, p. 8413. 



1872. Deyrolle, E. [Note.] In Petites Nouvelles Ent., Annee 4, no. 53, p. 212. 



Report of finding adults of C. sycophanta on the putrid body of a man who had hung himself in a 

 forest. 



1872. RowE, J. B. Calosoma sycophanta at Plymouth. In Ent. Mo. Mag., v. 9, 



p. 117. 

 1872. RoDD, E. H. Second occurrence of Calosoma sycophanta near Penzance. In 



Entomologist, v. 6, p. 224. 

 1880. Lucas, H. Une note relative a une anomalie presente par un Coleoptere du 



gem-e Calosoma. In Ann. Soc. Ent. France, v. 10, ser. 5, p. Ixxiv. 

 1895. Lintner, J. A. List of publications of the entomologist. In 10th Rpt. N. Y. 



State Ent. f. 1894, p. 484-506. 

 Page -JOl . One specimen of this species found in a box of le mons from Sicily opened in Albany, N. Y. 



1897. Heller, K. M. Ueber eine Farbenaberration von Calosoma sycophanta L. In 



Ent. Nachi-., v. 23, p. 312. 

 1905-1907. HouLBERT, C, et Monnot, E. Coleopteres. Carabides. In Trav. Sci. 



L^niv. Rennes, Fauna Ent. Americaine, t. 1, pt. 2, p. 298-379, fig. 68-145. 

 Page 292, fig. 71. Figin-e and description with distribution notes and biologic data on the larvae. 



1906. Maindron, Maurice. Remarques eiu' divers Carabidte pris en Corse. In 

 Bui. Soc. Ent. France f. 1906, p. 280-282. 

 Record of a specimen taken at 1,200 meters of altitude. 



1910. FisKE, W. F. Parasites of the Gipsy and Brown-tail Moths introduced into 



Massachusetts. 56 p., 22 fig. Boston. 



1911. Howard, L. O., and Fiske, W. F. The Importation into the Lhiited States of 



the Parasites of the Gipsy Moth and the Brown- tail Moth. U. S. Dept. Agr. 

 Bur. Ent. Bui. 91, 344 p. (p. 59, 62, 253-255), 28 pi., 74 fig. 



1911. Burgess, A. F. Calosoma sycophanta. U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. Ent. Bui. 101, 



94 p., 9 pi., 22 fig. 



1912. BuRGEGS, A. F., and Collins, C. W. The value of predaceous beetles in 



destroying insect pests. In V. S. Dept. Agr. Yearbook f. 1911, p. 453-466 

 (p. 463, 464), pi. 52-62, fig. 15 20. 

 1915. Burgess, A. F., and Collins, C,. W. The Calosoma Beetle (Calosoma syco- 

 phanta) in New England. U. S. Dept. Agr. BuL 251, 40 p., 8 pi., 3 fig. 



CALOSOMA RETICULATUM (Fab.). 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



[Translation.] > 



Winged, blark, flji:ra reticulated, greenish-coppery, margin of thorax greenish. 



Habitat in Europe, Mus. Dorn. Zechuck. 



Stature and magnitude of C. inquisitor. Head, with antennje, black, ferrugineous 

 on the last joint. Tliorax blackish, with golden reflexed margin. Elytra very 

 finely reticulate, green, elduing. Feet black. 



EARLY RECORDS OF THE SPECIES. 



The species was first dcsrrilx'd in 1 7S7 l)y Fubriciiis as (hrahns 

 rei'ixul/ituH anrl its habitat fi;iv('ri as Kiii'()j)o. A more detailed descrip- 

 tion was given by PaykuJl in 1790 under the same genus with a 

 note as to ttu* scarcity of tlif^ sjx'cics in southern Switzerbi nd. P'abri- 

 cius, in 1801, gave a further description of tlie species, placing it in 



