102 Proc(cilingt< of Jud'Hnui Acadcinji of Science. 



in Muncie, Delaware Co.. July J."i. imi; ; a female was taken hawking just 

 before sundown in my home yard in r.lufftoii on August 1, 1917, and a 

 male was taken August lo rarly in the morning clinging to vines in the 

 sd5toe yard; April 12. IIH!). a male was taken in the Union Savings and Trust 

 Company, Bluffton : a innnlicr wore taken in stores and houses in Bluffton 

 in April. May and June. 15)20. 



S3. Macromia iIIinoi(it>>i>i Walsh. Salamonie River. Huntington Co., 

 August 5. 1917 ; on June 4. 1918. a female was caught on a window screen at 

 the Wells County Bank building. Blufftim. 



84. Macromia pacipca Hagen. On August 2G. 1917, two friends and 

 myself hunted Maeromias along the Wabash River above Bluffton. It was 

 a cool windy day. altogether unfavorable for Maeromias but we took an even 

 dozen— height of pavifica. two of wabashensis and two of illiiioiensis. One 

 or tn^o identified on the wing as tacniolata were not captured. One pacifica 

 was found crippled and unable to fly in the weeds along the river; one 

 hind wing was broken at its base in the thorax and the body juices were 

 exuding. Another of the same species was floating alive on the water with 

 the front wing broken off near the base. It is in-ol)able both injuries were 

 caused by birds. At Howe. Lagrange Co.. on Sei»t. ."!. lOlO. I was asked to 

 identify the birds which had nesteil in a bhu' bird box in the hotel yard 

 during that year. A description of the birds liy my informants left no 

 doubt that they were great crested flycatchers. The birds were new to the 

 Ijarties observing them and the feeding of the young was e-pecially inter- 

 esting. They reported that they never saw the old birds carry in any other 

 food than large dragonflies. An examination of the nest showed a quan- 

 tity of bits of dragonfly wrings and legs. I was able to identify a bit of 

 wing of LihclhiJa pulcJiella but the bulk of the material was parts of Maero- 

 mias. There is no doubt that dozens of thee insects had gone to supply 

 this one nest. Martins are very numerous in boxes placed for them in 

 Bluffton. The birds spend many hours over the river and the abandoned 

 adjacent quarries near Bluffton. That they feed on large dragonflies is 

 no question though I have been able to certainly identify only LiheUula 

 pulchella. But in many years' collecting along the Wabash I have seen 

 only one Macromia near Bluffton. On the other hand, Clomphm occurs 

 within the city limits in apparently as large nund)ers as elsewhere. But the 

 Gomphi have a relatively short se:is(!nal range, they burst their exuviae by 

 hundreds or thousands almost simultaneously, and their eggs are laid and 

 their aerial life ended before their prechu-eous enemies could gather in 

 numbers to attack them. The longer seasonal range of Maeromias, by 

 reason of which the brooding mother bird and later her offspring, from 

 hatching to leaving the nest, could be fed on this one species of insect, 

 obviously invites danger. The ijair of great crested flycatchers at Howe 

 doubtless became expert Macrt)mia cateheis by the time their offspring took 

 wing. 



85. Macromia taeniolata Ramltiu-. At a bayou two miles west of Merom. 

 Sullivan Co.. July 23. 1918, one male captured and one or two more seen. 

 Later, on August 3, we found the species in numbers at the Tennessee River 

 ferry between Jasper and Chattanooga. Tennessee. 



90. Tetra(joneuria simwlans Muttkowski. Case Lake, east of Howe, 



