P. J. Darlington, Jr.
Charles Albert Frost: A Biographic Sketch and List of Publications.
Psyche 70(1):3-6, 1963.

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Vol. 70 MARCH, 1963 No. I
CHARLES ALBERT FROST
Charles Albert Frost was born in Monmouth, Maine, on August 28, 1872. He attended local schools and the University of Maine, where he graduated in 1895 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineer- ing. He spent his working years as a civil engineer with the Water- works Division of the Metropolitan District Commission, with responsibilities in and around Frarningham, Massachusetts. He lived in Framingham for the last fifty years of his life, at 67 Henry Street. Here he built up a very important private collection of North Ameri- can beetles. Its importance lay less in what he published than in the part it enabled him to play: in his wide knowledge, the extensive cor- respondence that he continued almost to the day of his death, and his very great helpfulness to other coleopte1-ists. He was almost the last of the old-time, general students of Coleoptera, who knew the entire order, and who were members of a network of collectors and students interested in beetles who covered the whole of the United States and southern Canada. He was one of my first entomological friends (much older than I, of course), and a fine, intelligent, generous, use- ful man. He died at home on March 11, 1962, at the age of 89. Mi-. Frost has left his collection of beetles to the Museum of Com- parative Zoology, Harvard University. It fills I 16 Schmitt or similar boxes. There are at least 50,000 specimens and perhaps many more; some of the boxes are so crowded that it is difficult to count the speci- mens in them. The specimens are well mounted, well labeled, and clean, and a large proportion of them have been studied and identified either by Mr. Frost himself or by competent specidists with whom he corresponded. There are some holotypes, and many paratypes of other workers. The collection is especially strong in small beetles, which are hard to collect and mount, and which are very much needed to fill out the study series of North American Coleoptera at the museum. The specimens will be individually labeled "C.A. Frost Collection" and incorporated in the museun1's main series of North American beetles. P. J. Darlington, TI-.




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Psyche
[March
1908
Notes on Attelabus rhois and parasite. Psyche, 15 : 26-32. 1909
Notes on wood-boring Coleoptera. Ent. News, 20: 298-299. 1910
A new species of Chrysobothns (Coleoptera) from Maine. Journ. N. Y. Ent. SOC., 18 : 43-45.
1912
Variations on Orsodacha atra - Coleoptera. Psyche 19 : 153-156. New species Coleoptera of the genus Agrilus. Can. Ent., 44: 245-252. Collecting Coleoptera in a Maine sawmill yard. Can. Ent., 44: 304-308. Note on Tricrania sanguinipennis Say (Coleoptera). Psyche, 19 : 208. 1913
Notes on Tomoxia bidentata Say and T. lineella Lec. (Coleop.). Ent. News, 24: 126-129.
Peculiar habits of small Diptera, Desmometopa latipes Meig. Psyche, 20: 37. 1915
June collecting in Maine - (Coleoptera) Can. Ent., 47: 141-145. List of Coleoptera collected from Tanglefoot. Ent. News, 26: 269-270. Remarks on collecting at light, with a list of the Coleoptera taken. Psyche, 22 : 207-211.
1916
Inhabitants on an April mud puddle. Can. Ent., 48: 214-215. Collecting notes and random observations on the Maine Coleoptera. Can. Ent., 48 : 381-390.
1920
A day's beating. Can. Ent., 52 : 25-29.
Notes on the Coleoptera with descriptions of new species. Can. Ent., 52: 229-232 ; 249-253.
A bibliography of the literature on the described transformations and food plants of North American species of Agrilus (Col.) (with H. B. Weiss). Can. Ent., 52 : 204-210, 220-223.
An addition to bibliography on Agrilus (Coleop.) (with H. B. Weiss). Can. Ent., 5 2 : 247.
1921
Additions to Agrilus bibliography (with H. B. Weiss). Can. Ent., 53: 72. 1922
A new species of New England Coleoptera Cantharis (Telephorus) under- sont, sp. nov. Psyche, 29: 4-6.
Occurrence of Agrilus coeruleus Rossi in America. Can. Ent., 54: 96. 1923
New species of Buprestidae from the United States (Coleoptera). Can. Ent., 5 5 : 279-281.
1924
Agr'ilus viridis in Massachusetts. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 19 : 27. Chysobothris virdigripennis in Canada, Bull Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 19 : 34. Dorytomus frosti Blatchley.
Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 19 : 37.
Parallelina saucia. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 19 : 34.



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19631
Darlington - C. A. Frost
1928
Unusual occurrence of Gyrinus. Psyche, 3 5 : 31-32. Collecting by the sounding water. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 23 : 84-86. Notes on the Coleoptera of 1925. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 23 : 133-136. The unexpected acid test. Psyche, 36: 59. (Note on) Geotrupes horni Blanchard. Psyche, 36 : 111. Note on Lema palustris Blatchley. Psyche, 3 6 : 215. Anatrichis minuta Dej. Psyche, 3 6 : 282. Rare beetle, rarer luck. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 24: 14. Uncommon Coleoptera. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 24: 34. An early Cerambycid. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 24: 154. Rarity vs. secrecy. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 24: 156. Cicindela tranquebarica horiconensis Leng. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 24: 219. A synonym. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 24 : 249. Cryptocephalus tinctus Lec. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 24: 294. Information wanted. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 24: 12. What attraction? Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 24: 11. 1930
Paratenetus crinitus Fall. Psyche, 3 7 : 176-177. Cis frosti Drury. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 25:41. Lud us fulvipes Bland. Bull, Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 25: 41. Addicted to strong-waters. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 25 : 46. Epiphanis cornutus Esch. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 25: 53. Stenus retrusus Casey. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 25 : 53. Uloma imberbis Lec. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 25 : 101. Orchestes testaceus Mul. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 25 : 97. Anthaxia aeneogaster Cast. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 25 : 146. Seeking a better climate. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 25 : 146. 1931
Abstrulia tessellata Melsh. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 26: 6. Donacia liebecki Schaeffer. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 26: 46. Ischalia costata Lec. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 26: 35. 1932
Amalus haemorrhous Hbst. in Massachusetts. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. SOC., 27: 184.
An interesting northern record. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 27: 188. A touching tale of a quaking quag. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 27: 195. Cicindela purpurea nigerrima Leng. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 27: 245. 1933
Hister semisculptus Leconte.
Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 28: 159.
Trotting the bogs with the wise bullfrogs. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 28: 233-234.
1935
Three species of beetles from Labrador. Can. Ent., 67: 19. 1938
Boreaphilus americanus Notman. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 33: 58. Silpha americanus Linn. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 33 : 70. Hoplia equina Leconte. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 33 : 107.



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6 Psyche [March
1939
Occurrence of Afhodius scrofa Fabricius in western Maine (Coleop.: Scarabaeidae).
Ent. News., 50 : 30.
1941
Notes on Notiophilus. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 36: 127-128. 1945
Notes on Maine Coleoptera for 1945. Psyche, 52: 177. 1946
Dichelonyx canadensis Horn. Psyche, 53 : 20-21. Notes on uncommon Coleoptera. Psyche, 53 : 21. Cicindela formosa generosa Dej. Psyche, 5 3 : 30, Polydrusus sericeus Schall. Psyche, 53 : 51. 1947
Octhephilum fracticorne Payk.
Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 42 : 18.
Sphindidae and Cisidae (Coleoptera).
Psyche, 54: 180.
1948
Gyrohypnus emmesus Grav.
Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 43 : 79.
1949
Tritoma dissimulator Crotch. Psyche, 56 : 115. 1950
Chalepus bicolor Oh. (Coleoptera). Psyche, 57 : 92.



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