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Pond snail 



Prairie Crawfish 



Garden Spider 



Ambush Spider 



Chigger 



Nine-spot Dragon-fly 



Stink-bug 



Small Milkweed-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 



Philodice Butterfly 



Idalia Butterfly 



Milkweed Butterfly 



Honeysuckle Sphinx 



Giant Mosquito 



Giant Fly 



Honey-bee 



Pennsylvania Bumblebee 



Bumblebee 



Bumblebee 



Carpenter-bee 



Rusty Digger-wasp 



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 in the adjacent corn field Mr. Hankinson recognized 

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

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

 in the webs of Argiope auraiitia. 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- 



