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



CALOSOMA PROTRACTUM Lee. 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



Elongated, black, somewhat shining, with thorax twice broader than long, base 

 scarcely notched, somewhat indented, with margin thickened; punctate at base and 

 sides, sides reflexed more broadly posteriorly; elytra a little broader than the thorax, 

 parallel, punctate finely in series. Length 0.95-1.05 [inches]. Arizona. Dr. Irvine, 

 U.S.A. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



This species was described by LeConte in 1862. * It occurs in 

 Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, and Mexico. Dr. F. H. Snow collected 

 specimens at an altitude of 3,750 feet in Arizona. 



CALOSOMA SCRUTATOR (Fab.). 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



[Translation.] 



Carabus, winged species, with striate elytra, green, with punctures in triple row, 

 thorax dark blue; margin reflexed, golden. Habitat, Virginia. Very like the pre- 

 ceding (sycophanta). Thorax violaceous, with rounded margin, somewhat reflexed, 

 golden. Margin of elytra golden. Abdomen green, spotted with gold. It varies 

 sometimes in having abdomen entirely violaceous. 



EARLY RECORDS OF THE SPECIES. 



This species was originally described by Fabricius in 1775 and 

 the type specimen or specimens were from Virginia. The species 

 was given space under the genus Carabus in this author's other 

 writings on Coleoptera until 1801, when he placed it in the genus 

 Calosoma. This species attracted the attention of other early and 

 prominent writers like Olivier, Latreille, Say, and Dejean. Chapuis 

 and Candeze in 1855 were the first authors to figure and describe the 

 larva. Riley, between 1870 and 1880, frequently wrote of the useful- 

 ness of this species as an enemy of the forest tent caterpillar ( Mala- 

 cosoma disstria) and cankerworms. Numerous other entomologists 

 of the United States, Canada, and even some of those of European 

 countries, have collected and published many valuable notes on this 

 important economic species. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



This species occurs in Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecti- 

 cut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, 

 Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michi- 

 gan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North 

 Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, 

 Texas, and Virginia. It has also been found in Ontario, Canada, and 

 in Mexico. 



COLLECTIONS AND SHIPMENTS. 



Through the kindness of Messrs. E. A. Schwarz and H. S. Barber, 

 of the United States National Museum, many specimens of this 

 species, along with specimens of C. wilcoxi and C. externum, have 

 been received at the gipsy moth parasite laboratory for study and 

 experimental work. All of the material shipped by these collectors 



1 LeConte, T. L. Notes on the species of Calosoma inhabiting the United States. In Proc. Acad 

 Nat. Sci. f. 1862, v. 14, p. 52-53, 1863. 



