swamps are more frequent and as the ground water is 

 always near the surface the soil is nearly always wet and 

 soggy and usually very acid. In the virgin forests the 

 conifers, mostly Pinus palnstris, made up as high as 75% 

 of the vegetation but a great deal of this has been cut for 

 lumber. Pinus elliotii, the slash pine and Taxodium imbri- 

 carium are abundant in the small ponds and swamps near 

 the coast. 



Fig. 4 A typical view in the pine-barrens or long leaf pine forests 

 of the Gulf Coast. 



Living on the pine we find Oecleus borealis and campes- 

 tris and Cixius pini. Members of the genus Catonia are 

 also thought to feed on pine but there are no definite 

 records. Beneath the bark of pine and spruce and in old 

 stumps occur members of the genus Epiptera of whose 

 habits we know nothing. On the succulent grasses of the 

 forest floor occur in abundance the following : Dictyophora 

 microrhina, florens and lingula, Bruchomorpha jocosa, bi- 

 maculata and pallidipes, Aphelonema viridis, decorata and 

 obscura, Scolops angustatus, dessicatus, spurcus and perdix, 

 and Phylloscelis atra and its variety albovenosa. Cyrpoptus 

 belfragei and reineckei either feed on the foliage of the 

 pine itself or on the coarse grasses beneath. Acanalonia 



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