THE GENUS CALOSOMA. 



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LONGEVITY OF ADULTS. 



Two of the females collected in 1909 died during the spring and 

 summer of 1911. Taking it for granted that they were pupse in the 

 fall of 1908, they must have spent three years in the adult stage. The 

 males in this same shipment (although they were fewer in number 

 than the females) lived only two years, but under natural conditions 

 they probably live as long as the females, as both sexes of C. inquisitor 

 and C. sycophanta ordinarily attain approximately the same age 

 before death. 



HIBERNATION. 



Notes on the hibernating habits of this species are given in Table 

 7 and the paragraph following. 



Table 7. — Showing dates at which Calosoma wilcoxi entered and emerged from hiber- 

 nation in 1909, 1910, and 1911. 



No. 



Date entered, 1909. 



Date emerged, 1910. 



Depth 

 of cav- 

 ities, 

 1910. 



Date entered, 1910. 



Date emerged, 1911. 



Depth 

 of cav- 

 ities. 



1791 



June 27, 1 male, 1 fe- 

 male. 



22, 1 male, 1 fe- 

 male. 



24, 1 male 



17, 1 male, 1 fe- 

 male. 





Inches. 



July 12 1 





Inches. 















1792 



May 23, 1 male, 1 

 female. 



June 18, 1 male 1 . . 



li 



July 11, 1 male — 



14, 1 female 



died. 

 11, 1 male, 1 



female. 

 Aug. 3, male died. . 



Male died in eav- 

 ity. 



2 



1793 



Female died in 

 cavity. 



6 



1795 



May 26, 1 male, 1 

 female. 



1 













1 Beetles died during the summer. 



The average date of entering hibernation in 1909 was June 23 and 

 in 1910 July 11. The depth at which this species hibernated in soft 

 earth ranged from 1 to 6 inches. In 1909 several specimens were 

 placed in a cage in the laboratory yard, but not all of them emerged 

 in 1910. This was not thought to be abnormal at that time, as some 

 ordinarily die during hibernation, but on May 18, 1911, one female 

 emerged from this same cage. (Fig. 5.) This is an instance where 

 one specimen remained in hibernation two winters and one summer, 



THE EGG. 



Twelve newly deposited eggs were wliite with a faint yellowish tinge, ami averaged 

 3.9 mm. in length and 2 mm. in width; in form they were elliptical, occasionally 

 somewhat kidney-shaped, and often tapering toward one end. 



Most of the eggs were deposited between June 2 and June 22, 1910. 

 and hatched in from 3 to 12 days. The average time passed in this 

 stage by 168 eggs deposited that year was 0.8 days. 



BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF LARVA. 



First stage. — Form somewhat stout. Average length of L2 specimens, 7.S mm.; 

 width, 1 .8 mm. Caudal appendages of medium length, straight . Color In-own above, 

 ventral plates light brown. 



Second stage. — Form stouter than in first stage. Average length oi six specimens, 

 12.9 mm.; width, 2.9 mm. Caudal appendages short and stout. Color slightly 

 lighter than in first stage. 



Third stage- Form robust,. Average Length of six specimens, 22.2 mm.; width, 

 4.1 mm. Posterior angles of anal segment obtuse, not prominent or protruding back- 



