234 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October, 



COLEOPTERA OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS.-No. II. 



By A. B. WOLCOTT, Bloomington, 111. 



I have previously recorded (ENT. NEWS, vol. vi, p. 309) 

 102 species of Coleoptera taken in the vicinity of Bloomington. 

 The present list is of species taken the past season, representing 

 collecting trips averaging about two a week. 



About twenty-five per cent of the past season's collecting is as 

 yet undetermined (not having been submitted to authorities for 

 identification), but as the list now contains nearly 250 species, 

 I thought it well to give it at the present time. 



The country surrounding this place is almost entirely open 

 prairie, with here and there a heavy patch of timber, which is 

 rapidly being converted into fire-wood. The soil is being" 

 brought well under cultivation and drained ; even swamps of 

 considerable size are yielding up their fertile land under the 

 drainage system ; these facts combine to make \\\e present study 

 of our Coleoptera very opportune. 



The past Summer, I spent four days collecting at Springfield, 

 111., which, although in central Illinois, is sixty miles south of 

 Bloomington ; and there took some very good things, those 

 species which were taken only at Springfield are marked with a *, 

 those which occurred at both Springfield and Bloomington are 

 designated with a f, the remainder were taken within a radius of 

 thirty miles from Bloomington. 



I take the present opportunity of thanking Messrs. H. F. 

 Wickham, W. M. Hill and Chas. C. Adams and especially Dr. G. 

 H. Horn, for their determination of many of the following species: 

 Correction. Galernca xanthomel&na Schr. of my former 

 list must be erased as the determination was an error. 



CICINDELID^. Scarites substriatus Hold. 



*Tetracha virginica Linn. Clivina corvina Pntz. 



Cicindela unipunctata Fabr. impressifrons Lee. 



hirticollis Say. bipustulata Fabr. 



CABABID^ Bembidium inaequale Say. 



Carabus sylvosus Say. ' nitidulum Dej. {.Linn. 



serratus Say. quadrimaculatum 



Calosoma scrutator Fabr. Tachys incurvus Say. 



Elaphrus ruscarius Say. Amara interstitialis Dej. 



f Pasimachus elongatus Lee. obesa Say. 



Scarites subterraneus Fabr. tDiplochilalaticollisz'ar. major Lee. 



