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ous element, the tick trefoils (Desmodiiim canadense and D. panicu- 

 latiim), with a scattering of common milkweed (Asclcpias syriaca) 

 and yarrow (Acillca millefolium). Between this group and the 

 autumn flowers was a period in which various plants with conspicu- 

 ous flowers matured but they were so well distributed over a large 

 number of species that not one stood out as more important than 

 another. Of the whole number of these species half perhaps be- 

 longed to the order Polemoniales with the mints (Labiatse) ranking 

 as the most important family. These merged into the most showy 



Insects of the Thicket (No. Species). 



Order. 



Odonata 



Orthoptera. . . 

 Coleoptera. . . 

 Hemiptera. . . 

 Homoptera. . . 

 Trichoptera . . 

 Lepidoptera. . 

 Mecoptera. . . 



Diptera 



Hymenoptera. 

 Acarina 



7 



6 



59 



24 



26 



I 



25 

 I 



54 

 29 



Totals 191 



15 



14 



233 



Additional Insects Common to Both Woods and Thicket (No. Species). 



