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



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



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

 Page 383. Brief account of its feeding habits. 



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



moth. In 44th Ann. Rpt. Mass. State Bd. Agr. f. 1896, p. 412-431, pi. 3-5*. 

 Page 418. Full life-history notes with descriptions of the different stages. 



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



Mass. State Bd. Agr. 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 larva? 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 Kirby, 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 guttivitta. It was found on August 21-25. 1909. that an average of 54 per cent of the 

 pupae had been destroyed by frigidum larvae, 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 region were destroyed by 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. Carabus, winged, greenish-coppery, 

 punctate and striate concavely, feet and antennae black. 

 Habitat in trees of Europe, living on larvro 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 

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

 many prominent European entomologists, judging from the many 

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

 1761, gave its habitat as Europe, destroying larvae of Papilio and 

 Phalaenalis in trees. Paykull, in 1790, gave a lengthy and compre- 

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

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

 ligter Insekten," Col. Tab. 38, fig. 39, 1793, presents a life-size col- 

 ored figure of the adult. Description and references to the species 

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

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

 on which it is nourished. 



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

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

 established the genus Calosoma, placed this species under the latter 

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

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

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

 it as being found about Paris but less commonly than C. syco- 

 phanta L. 



