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



Zoologist, 1852, p. 3359. 

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

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

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

 consider the species as truly indigenous to that country. 



1857. Plant, F. Captures of Coleoptera in Leicestershire. In Zoologist, v. 15, 

 p. 5544. 



1860. Hayward, W. H. Capture 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 



genre Calosoma. In Ann. Soc. Ent. France, v. 10, ser. 5, p. lxxiv. 

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



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

 Page 491. Onespecimen of this species found in a box of lemons from Sicily opened in Albany, N. Y. 



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



Ent. Nachr., v. 23, p. 312. 

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



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

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



1906. Maindron, Maurice. Remarques sur divers Carabidae 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 United 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. Burgess, A. F., and Collins, C. W. The value of predaceous beetles in 



destroying insect pests. In U. 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. Bui. 251, 40 p., 8 pi., 3 fig. 



CALOSOMA RETICULATUM (Fab.). 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



[Translation.] 



Winged, black, elytra reticulated, greenish-coppery, margin of thorax greenish. 



Habitat in Europe, Mus. Dom. Zechuck. 



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

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

 finely reticulate, green, shining. Feet black. 



early records of the species. 



The species was first described in 1787 by Fabricius as Carabus 

 reticulatus and its habitat given as Europe. A more detailed descrip- 

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

 note as to the scarcity of the species in southern Switzerland. Fabri- 

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



