6 Ittino1is NATURAL History SURVEY BULLETIN 
3F, which combines a great variety of grass, 
sedge, herb and shrub species, many of them 
found nowhere else in the state. This area 
offers excellent collecting for some of the 
rarer species of the Miridae. It combines 
grass, sedge and herb communities, fig. 6, 
and open woods with luxuriant herbaceous 
undergrowth, fig. 7. One of our most inter- 
esting captures was Plagiognathus syrticolae 
Knight on the sand-loving willow, Salix 
A. THE Jo DAVIESSE 
HILLS ARE RICH IN 
HERB, SHRUB AND TREE 
SPECIES THAT HARBOR 
MANY MIRIDAE 
LEE 
B. IN THE WHITE PINES 
Forest STATE Park, 
CONTAINING THE ONLY 4 
VIRGIN WHITE | 
PINE IN tule | 
ARE FOUND 
MIRIDAE ee 
RESTRICTED TO 
mike wace fe 
@ Si ARVED{ MSDOMOUGH 
ROCK 
STATE | LOGAN 
PARK ADAMS Ee 
HAS SOME = 
WHITE o SS ae ae 
PINE AND 
OTHER 
PLANTS a 
UNUSUAL IN 
ILLINOIS, WITH 
MIRIDAE PECULIAR 
TO THEM 
ae - 
RANDOLPH | PERRY 
- YACKSON 
D. IN CYPRESS SWAMPS, NOW 
MOSTLY CLEARED, ARE MIRIDAE 
AND OTHER INSEGTS aiyPICAE-OFR 
THE sSOUTHERN STATES 
STEPHENSON |WINNEBAGO 
DEKALB | KANE 
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WOODFORD 
CUMBERL'D Pee 
EFFGHM 
Pein 
MARION 
CLAY 
RICHL'D bron 
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FRANKLIN 
W/LL/IAMSON 
V ol. 225A rie 
syrticola, restricted in Illinois to this area. 
White Pines Forest State Park, fig. 3B, 
in Ogle County, contains an area of white 
pine forest which is the only large stand of 
this tree in Illinois, fig. 8. Scattered speci- 
mens of the white pine occur in Starved 
Rock State Park, fig. 30. Restrictedemm 
white pine are four mirid species taken in 
this state: Deraeocoris pinicola Knight, 
which we have taken only at White Pines 
BOONE MSHENRY mw 7 ITE 
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E. IN THIS LAKE 
AND MARSH REGION 
OCCUR TAMARACK 
BOGS WITH THEIR 
DISTINCTIVE 
MiIRIDAE 
FP. THE SAND 
REGION 
NEAR BEACH, 
/ROQUOQIS 
EXTENDING 
FROM \WAUKEGAN 
TO WISCONSIN, 
HARBORS MANY 
1 RARE SPECIES 
OF MIRIDAE 
YERM/LION 
G. LOCALIZED, 
DENSELY WOODED 
GLENS IN THESE 
AREAS HAVE 
YIELDED MANY 
RARE MIRIDAE 
LOWAROS 
HAMIL Ae 
H. THE OZARK HILLS 
ABOUND IN CHOICE 
COLLECTING SPOTS 
FOR MIRIDAE 
Fig. 3.—Map of Illinois showing mirid habitats of unusual interest. 
