38 BULLETIN 417, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



3895. Lintner, J. A. List of publications of the entomologist In 10th Rpt. N. Y. 

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

 Page 491. Note to the effect that this species closely resembles the European C. sycophanta L. 



1896. Forbush, E. H., and Fernald, C. II. The GipsvMoth. Mass State Bd. Agr., 

 4954-c p., 66 pi., 34 fig. 

 Pages 382-383. Brief notes on the amount of food consumed by the adults in confinement. 



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



State Bd. Agr. f. 1897, p. 402-411. 

 Pages 406-407. Brief notes on distribution and attempts at rearing the species. 



1899. Gadeau de Kerville, Henri. Description d'un Coleoptere anomal (Calo- 



soma scrutator F.). In Bui. Soc. Ent. France, p. 81-82. 



Page 81. Includes tne description of an expansion on the posterior tibia of the right leg of a female 

 specimen from the United States. 



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



Indianapolis . 



Page 47. Occurs in all parts of Indiana and is often attracted bv the hundreds to the electric lights 

 of the cities. 



1911. Smith, J. B. [Xote.] In Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., v. 4, no. 2, p. 179, June. 

 Note on the presence of C. scrutator Fab. and wilcoxi Lee. in enormous numbers in southern New 



Jersey, one year feeding upon a species of geometrid caterpillar, and the following year neither beetles 

 nor caterpillars could be found. 



CALOSOMA WILCOXI Lee. 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



Greenish-bronze, blackish-bronze or bronze above, shining with gold and blue 

 below; feet steel-blue; thorax much broader than long, gold-margined; elytra deeply 

 striate, copper margined, spaces between the striae marked transversely, with punc- 

 tures marked in triple row. Length 0.77 inch, width 0.4 inch. 



Habitat, from New York to Texas, very rare. Very much like the preceding 

 (scrutator), but a third smaller, and with thorax a little shorter (and a third narrower), 

 less rounded on the sides behind the middle, slightly retracted; striae of elytra less 

 deeply but distinctly punctate. 



EARLY RECORDS OF THE SPECKS. 



This species was originally described by LeConte in 1848. In his 

 description he mentioned that "it occurs rarely from New York to 

 Texas." In the same year it was listed in his "Descriptive Cata- 

 logue of the Geodephagous Coleoptera Inhabiting the United States 

 East of the Rocky Mountains." The description compares this 

 species with O. scrutator, which it resembles greatly. In 1862 Le Conte 

 in his "Notes on the species of Calosoma inhabiting the United 

 States" gives descriptive details for separating wilcoxi from scrutator. 

 The middle tibia of the male of the former species is nearly straight 

 while that of the latter is curved. No published references as to the 

 kind of food sought by these beetles have come to the attention of 

 the writers, save a note by Dr. W. E. Britton, of Connecticut, in his 

 "Tenth Report of the State Entomologist, 1910," in which he states 

 that "Mr. Champlain observed a large ground beetle, Calosoma 

 wilcoxi Lee, which was very abundant during the season, feeding upon 

 canker worms." 



DISTRIBUTION. 



Specimens of this species have been collected in Arkansas, Cali- 

 fornia, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, 

 Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, 

 New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania; also in Ontario, 

 Canada. There are records of this species in the Southern States only 



