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which they live. All, however, are wonderful creatures ; and 

 whether we look at their varied architecture, their mode of pro- 

 curing food, the system of slave-catching adopted by some, the 

 ' milking' of aphides practised by others, their astonishing mode 

 of communicating thought to each other, and their perfect sys- 

 tem of discipline, we feel how true were the words of the royal 

 naturalist, that the Ants are ' little upon earth, but are exceed- 

 ingly wise.' " 



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COLEOPTERA OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 



By A. B. WoLCOTT, Bloomington, 111. 

 The species of Coleoptera enumerated in the following list have 

 been taken in the vicinity of Bloomington, 111., and with very 

 few exceptions they were taken since the last of September, 1894. 

 I am greatly indebted to Messrs. W. M. Hill and C. C. Adams 

 for the identification of many of the following: 



CICINDELID^. 

 Cicindela sexguttata Fabr. 

 " punctulata Fabr. 

 *' repanda Dej. 

 ." " i2-gnttata Dej. 



CARABID-ffi. 

 Calosoma willcoxi Lee. 



" calidum Fabr. 

 Clivina (americana?) Dej. 

 Tachys nanus Gyll. 



" flavicauda Say. 

 Evarthrus sodalis Lee. 

 Amara exarata Dej. 

 Piatynus extensicollis Say. 

 Galerita janus Fabr. 

 Lebia grandis Hentz. 

 Chlaenius diffinis Chaud. 

 Agonoderus pallipes Fabr. 

 Metabletus americanus Dej. 

 Anisodactylus discoideus Dej. 



" baltimorensis Say. 



" interstitialis Say. 



HYDROPHILIDiE] . 

 Hydrocharis obtusatus Say. 

 ■Cercyon hsemorhoidalis. 



" melauscephalus Linn. 



SILPHID^. 

 Necrophorus americanus O/iv. 

 Silpha surinamensis Fab. 



STAPH YLINID^. 

 Paederus littorarius Grav. 

 Aleochara bimaculata Grav. 

 Atimeles cava Lee. 



PHALACRID^. 

 Olibrus nitidus Melsh. 



COCCINELID^. 

 Megilla maculata DeG. 

 Hippodamia convergens Guer. 



" 13-punctata Linn. 



" parenthesis Say. 



Coccinella novemnota Hbst 



" sanguinea Linn. 



Anatis 15-punctata O/ijj. 

 Chilocorus bivulnerus Afuls. 

 Hyperaspis proba Say. 

 Adalia bipunctata Linn. 



ENDOMYCHID^. 

 Endomychus biguttatus Say. 



EROTYLID^. 

 Megalodacne fasciata Fab. 

 Languria mozardi La^r. 



