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Pond snail 



Prairie Crawfish 



Garden Spider 



Ambush Spider 



Chigger 



Nine-spot Dragon-fly 



Stink-bug 



Small I\Iilkweed-bug 



Large Milkweed-bug 



Ambush Bug 



Tarnished Plant-bug 



Soldier-beetle 



Black Flower-beetle 



Four-eyed Milkweed-beetle 



Milkweed-beetle 



Leaf-beetle 



Dogbane Beetle 



Celery Butterfly 



Philo'dice Butterfly 



Idalia Butterfly 



Milkweed Butterfly 



Honeysuckle Sphinx 



Giant Mosquito 



Giant Fly 



Honey-bee 



Pennsylvania Bumblebee 



Bumblebee 



Bumblebee 



Carpenter-bee 



Rusty Digger-wasp 



Galha umhilicata 



Cambanis gracilis 



Argiope aurantia 



Misumena aleatoria 



Troinbidinm sp. 



LibcUiila piilchella 



Euschistus variolariiis 



Lygcciis kalniii 



Oncopeltiis fascia t us 



Pliymata fascia ta 



Lygits pratensis 



Chaiiliognatlms pennsylvanicus 



Euphoria sepulchralis 



Tetraopes tetraophthalmus 



Tetraopes femoratus (?) 



Diabrotica atripennis 



Chrysochiis auratus 



Papilio polyxenes 



Eurymus philodice 



Argynnis idalia 



Anosia plcxippus 



Heuiaris diffinis 



Psorophora ciliata 



My das clavatiis 



Apis niellifera 



B ombus pennsylvanicus 



Bonibus fraternus 



Bonibus separatus i 



Xylocopa virginica 



Chlorion ichncumoneum 



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The soft, wet, black soil contained large numbers of crawfish holes 

 and from several of them T. L. Hankinson dug specimens of Cambarus 

 gracilis. Frogs (Rana) were seen but none were secured A Caro- 

 lina rail was flushed from the ditch along the track, and on the mar- 

 gins of the water m the adjacent corn field Mr. Hankinson recognized 

 some shore birds. The dragon-fly Libellula pulchclla was abundant on 

 the wmg and resting on the vegetation, and two examples were found 

 m the webs of Argiope aurantia. No nymphs were found, but doubt- 

 less eggs were laid by some of the numerous adults. It was interest- 

 ing to observe the fresh burrows of the crawfish which had traversed 

 the fresh firm yellow clay of the recently reinforced railway embank- 



