September, 1941 KnicHt: PLANT Bucs, or Miripagz, oF ILLINOIS 11 
Fig. 12.—Forest edge near Charleston, IH]. Places such as this, with a large variety of trees 
and shrubs growing near the forest edge, offer good collecting for many species of Miridae. 
Fig. 13.—Meadows and rolling hills near Herod, Il. Fencerows, forest edge and meadows 
combine in many localities in the Ozark hills to give excellent mirid collecting. Several species, 
such as Plagiognathus gleditsiae and Lepidopsallus nyssae, known previously only from Gulf Coast 
states, have been collected in the Hlinois Ozarks. Other species, typically northern in distribu- 
tion, have been collected in this state only in the Ozark hills. 
