48 

 4. Cone-flozver and Rosin-weed Colony, Station I, e 



This station was continuous with and just --* ^^J^/^e ^^^ 

 milkweed area (Station I, ^) just described. The surface ot the 

 Jiound sloped gently upward toward the north, but none of it was free 

 from crawfishlolel, and the ground-water level was not far below. 



The soil is verv dark in color. • -di f^ aa TVip 



The general appearance of this habitat is shown m Plate V. The 

 l.r/e leaved plants are SUphium terehinthinaceum, and the heads of 

 h?nut r^t'cone-fl^ Uepachyspinnata) ^h- - ^^^^^^^^^ 



the picture The cone-flower was the dominant plant at this time 

 There were a few scattered plants of SUphitim integnfohnm and of 

 wddLr: ^Lactuca canadensis) At the ti- the -^^^^^^^^ 

 in this area SUphinm was not m blossom, and all the tlower collecting 



was from L£'/'ac%.y. „ , on 



The collections of animals taken here (Nos. 8, 40, and 158J are 



as follows : 



Crawfish 

 Garden Spider 

 Sordid Grasshopper 

 Differential Grasshopper 

 Red-legged Grasshopper 

 Texan Katydid 

 Dorsal-striped Grasshopper 



Canibanis sp. (Burrows observed) 

 Argiope aurantia 

 Bncoptolophus sordidiis^ 

 Melanoplus differentialis 

 Melanoplus femur-rnbrum 

 Scudderia tcxensis 

 Xiphidium strictum ^ 



Dorsal-stnpea ora^buuppti .j^^. ..>..- -- ^ 

 Black-horned Meadow Cricket CEcanthns nigncorms 

 •J 1 rmnhvlfuchia ciirvato 



Campylenchia curvata 

 Platymetopius frontalis 

 Ligyrocoris sylvestris 

 Phymata fasciata 

 Nodonota convexa 

 Diahrotica 12-punctata 



Asilidce 



Buaresta ceqnalis 

 Melissodes biniaculata 

 M diss odes obliqua 

 Epeolits concolor 

 Polistes sp. 



40 



158 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 

 40 



Membracid bug 



Jassid 



Lygseid 



Ambush Bug 



Chrysomelid beetle 



Southern Corn Root-worm 

 Beetle 



Robber-fly 



Trypetid fly 

 Eucerid bee 

 Eucerid bee 

 Nomadid bee 

 Social wasp 



Collection No. 40 was made by sweeping the vegetation with an In- 

 sect net No 8 is a collection made from the flowers of Lepachys pm- 

 nata. The nest of Polistes was across the railway f^^^^^^f/;^ ;\^ 

 station. The abundance of Melissodes obliqna and of tne prett) 



40 

 8 

 8 

 8 



