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Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 107 
ARTICLE V.—A REVISED LIST OF THE COLEOPTERA 
OBSERVED NEAR CINCINNATI, OHIO, 
WITH NOTES ON LOCALITIES, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES, 
AND DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES. 
By CHARLES Dury. 
In this journal, October, 1879, I published a list of the Coleop- 
tera observed in the vicinity of Cincinnati, enumerating 1,419 
species. In stipplemental papers (1882) added 179 species. 
Long continued and more careful collecting has revealed many 
other, rare and interesting forms. Changes in environment that 
have taken place, have caused many species to become rare or. 
disappear altogether, while some new to the locality have been 
introduced. Conspicuous among these are the destructive ‘clover 
root beetle” (Phytonomus punctatus) and the “pea green Dia- 
brotica” (Diabrotica longicormis), etc. Some others that are 
perhaps beneficial have also made their appearance, among which 
may be mentioned the large showy “Lady bugs” Coccinella 
(Neoharmoma) venusta and notulata. 
The area covered in making the collections, on which this list is 
based, is the same as that given in former list mentioned above. 
The twenty-three years that have elapsed since that publication 
has wrought great changes in the local collectors of Coleoptera, 
all, save one, having either gone to their last resting places or 
removed from the state. But few new workers in this interesting 
order have come into the field. Annette Braun, with mother and 
sister, have made a very fine collection of local insects and added 
some rare species to the fauna of the locality. Their well pre- 
pared material can not be surpassed. Our dear, old friend, Dr. 
Geo. H. Horn, of Philadelphia, died November 25, 1897. His 
loss was a calamity severely felt by students of Nortlf American 
Coleoptera. His many excellent papers and the thousands of 
specimens gratuitously determined by him for others, bear testi- 
mony to the vast amount of work done by this unassuming and 
talented gentleman. And all this accomplished in moments 
snatched from a busy professional life, actuated only by love of 
the science. 
Four hundred and forty-eight of this list were originally de- 
scribed by Thos. Say, the pioneer entomologist who lived at New 
Harmony, Ind., the faunze of Cincinnati and of that place being 
almost identical. I can not too strongly urge our young people 
to study the insects, or some other branch of Nature’s creatures. 
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