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sitic species find their hosts, as Pierce ('04) has shown to be the case 

 in the rhipiphorid genus Myoditcs. Rhipiphorus is probably parasitic. 



6. Supplementary Collections from Station I 



In addition to the specimens given in the preceding lists for Station 

 I there are others, general collections from this area, which should be 

 listed for this prairie. For details concerning each species of the fol- 

 lowing consult the annotated list. 



Garden Spider 



Ambush Spider 



Chigger 



Dorsal-striped Grasshopper 



Coreid bug 



Ambush Bug 



Ladybird 



Leaf-beetle 



Four-eyed Milkweed Beetle 



Old-fashioned Potato Beetle 



Margined Blister-beetle 



Black Blister-beetle 



Snout-beetle 



Snout-beetle 



Giant Bee-fly 



American Syrphid 



Tachinid fly 



Bumblebee 



False Bumblebee 



Eucerid bee 



Short Leaf-cutting Bee 



Halictid bee 



Halictid bee 



Stizid wasp 



Rusty Digger-wasp 



Harris Digger-wasp 



Digger-wasp 



Solitary wasp 



II. Prairie Area near Loxa, Illinois, Station II 



This station includes patches of prairie along the Cleveland, Cin- 

 cinnati. Chicago and St. Louis (Big Four) railroad right-of-way be- 

 tween Charleston and Mattoon, 111., and about one mile west of 



