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direction through the land, the old water level is forever low- 

 ered, and the primitive conditions are gone never to return. 

 Study and discussion may devise methods of improving the 

 Wabash, but it will he an artificial Wabash, not a restored 

 Wabash, on whose banks no Indians will camp, from whose 

 waters no doe and her fawns will drink, through whose forest > 

 no wild turkey hen will lead her brood. 



And as Calvin Beam has told me of the deer that used to 

 come in the heat of the day to the cool recesses of the Vanemon 

 Swamp (known then as Bay's Swamp for William May, who 

 owned it), so I would tell a little of the Somatochloras which 

 still survive, but which are going, which may be gone before 

 another year has passed. 



In Entomological News of .April, 1912. I recorded the 

 captures of Somatochloras in Indiana up to that date, and 

 described Flat Creek in Wells County where two species had 

 been found. Since then the Simmers sisters' woods, through 

 which Flat Creek flows, has been cut over, exposing the Creek 

 more to the sun, and weeds and mud have replaced the feu- 

 gravelly spots which formerly existed. I took another male 

 of charadraca there on July 4, 19 13, but failed to find it after 

 that date until during the summer of 1921, when another single 

 male was taken on July 6. On July 10, 1914, a female of 

 Uncarts was taken on the same creek and on July 9 and 13, 

 1919, four males and a female of the same species were col- 

 lected. The female was ovipositing by striking her abdomen 

 on the fine gravel at the water's edge of a shallow ripple. Since 

 then this sandy ripple has become mud-co\ r ered and weed- 

 grown, and we failed to find lincaris on the creek in 1921. 



North of Wells County, in Allen County, is a small tributary 

 of Little River, named the Aboite River, which, a few miles 

 above its mouth, flows for about a quarter of a mile through 

 a bit of woodland known as Devil's Hollow, though there is 

 nothing in the long pools and gentle ripples to 'suggest the 

 name. Aboite River is in reality only a shallow creek aver- 

 aging possibly ten feet in width. At the upper end of Devil's 

 Hollow is a small right-hand tributary of cold clear spring 

 water (lowing through a thick second growth. This small 



