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About five a. m. the next day, I again visited the creek \vith 

 a party studying birds. But little time could be spared looking- 

 for Somatochloras, but I saw a female of lincaris ovipositing;, 

 captured a male each of lincaris and charadraca, and saw 

 several more of both species. 



On July 5, Arch Cook and I went again to the creek, reach- 

 ing it about 4 p. m. We caught one male each of charadraea 

 and lincaris. The last specimen seen was flying the creek at 

 6.30 p. m. That night we slept in the J. M. Settlemeyer barn 

 and were at the creek early the next day. The morning was 

 cloudy or hazy, and seemed rather unfavorable, but we saw 

 our first Somatochlora before 5 a. m. and we caught six more 

 males of lincaris and another charadraca, and returning home, 

 we stopped at Flat Creek and caught a male charadraca. 



Our success encouraged us to enlarge our party, and the 

 night of July 7, Rev. D. C. Truesdale, Arch Cook, Jesse 

 Williamson and I slept in the Settlemeyer barn again. Sun up 

 the next day found us at the creek but the morning was hazy 

 and between six and seven o'clock a heavy thundershower 

 drove us, with only four or five lincaris in our bottles, to the 

 shelter of the tight floored road bridge over the creek. Here 

 we cooked and ate our breakfast. By this time the storm was 

 over and the sun came out brightly. We all returned to col- 

 lecting, and before 9 a. m., when another thunder storm again 

 drove us to shelter, we brought our total catch for the morning 

 up to thirteen males and one female of lincaris and two males 

 of charadraca. From July 3, when we first saw the creek, to 

 July 8, the water had fallen about eight inches and had ceased 

 to flow above ground, though there was doubtless a continued 

 flow through the gravel which forms the stream bed. Davis 

 Creek is one of the very few undredged creeks in Wells County, 

 but Eight Mile Creek, of which it is an a affluent, has been 

 deeply dredged and into its lowered basin the water in Davis 

 Creek is readily drained through the underlying sand and -ravel. 

 With this catch before us, we planned a killing for the next 

 Sunday, July 10. Eli Captain, master catcher of Macromias, 

 was enlisted and Saturday night he. Arch Cook, Jesse William- 

 son and I spent another night at Scttlemeyer's barn. Sunday 



