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Curculionidae. — Coll. Castelnau, including specimens from 

 colls. Dejean, Lafert6 and Roelofs. 



Longicornia.7— Coll. Lacordaire, good but not very rich. 

 Chrysomelidae. — Colls. Chapuis, Saintpierre. 



HYMENOPTERA. 

 Ichneumonidae, Braconidae. — Coll. Wesmael. 



LOCAL LIST. 



By A. J. Snyder, Evanston, 111. 



The lists of insects taken by collectors in various localities are 

 always interesting to me. We desire to know where and when 

 to look for certain species. If such lists were more common, 

 and were studied more, much valuable time would be saved by 

 not looking for things in wrong times and seasons. Beginners 

 are discouraged because they think it is impossible to secure a 

 collection of any size unless one can travel or live in the tropics, 

 hence I have made notes of my season's captures and give the 

 species which I have taken within the past season and within a 

 radius of one mile from my house. 



North Evanston is thirteen and a half miles from one of the 

 main depots of Chicago. Native timber abounds — oaks ashes, 

 elms and basswoods are predominant forest trees. In my own 

 yard are numerous trees, which are kept smeared with molasses 

 and vinegar during the insect season. 



My collecting must be done at night and on occasional Saturday 

 afternoons when my duties as teacher will permit. From June 

 19th to August 8th, my vacation occurred, and I collected in 

 Utah, Idaho and Yellowstone Park. As to this trip I hope to 

 have something to say in the future, but I can never know how 

 many species might have been added to my list had I been at 

 home. 



Besides the species named I have taken probably twenty kinds, 

 mostly micros, which are yet unidentified. The Catocalas, usu- 

 ally abundant from June to October, were conspicuous by their 

 absence this year. I have been amazed at the method of ap- 

 pearance and the stay of certain species. 



Aletia argillacea appeared in abundance one night; a few were 

 seen the following evening, and that was the last of the species. 



