234 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October, COLEOPTERA OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS.-No. II. By A. B. WOLCOTT, Bloomington, 111. I have previously recorded (ENT. NEWS, vol. vi, p. 309) 102 species of Coleoptera taken in the vicinity of Bloomington. The present list is of species taken the past season, representing collecting trips averaging about two a week. About twenty-five per cent of the past season's collecting is as yet undetermined (not having been submitted to authorities for identification), but as the list now contains nearly 250 species, I thought it well to give it at the present time. The country surrounding this place is almost entirely open prairie, with here and there a heavy patch of timber, which is rapidly being converted into fire-wood. The soil is being" brought well under cultivation and drained ; even swamps of considerable size are yielding up their fertile land under the drainage system ; these facts combine to make \\\e present study of our Coleoptera very opportune. The past Summer, I spent four days collecting at Springfield, 111., which, although in central Illinois, is sixty miles south of Bloomington ; and there took some very good things, those species which were taken only at Springfield are marked with a *, those which occurred at both Springfield and Bloomington are designated with a f, the remainder were taken within a radius of thirty miles from Bloomington. I take the present opportunity of thanking Messrs. H. F. Wickham, W. M. Hill and Chas. C. Adams and especially Dr. G. H. Horn, for their determination of many of the following species: Correction. Galernca xanthomel&na Schr. of my former list must be erased as the determination was an error. CICINDELID^. Scarites substriatus Hold. *Tetracha virginica Linn. Clivina corvina Pntz. Cicindela unipunctata Fabr. impressifrons Lee. hirticollis Say. bipustulata Fabr. CABABID^ Bembidium inaequale Say. Carabus sylvosus Say. ' nitidulum Dej. {.Linn. serratus Say. quadrimaculatum Calosoma scrutator Fabr. Tachys incurvus Say. Elaphrus ruscarius Say. Amara interstitialis Dej. f Pasimachus elongatus Lee. obesa Say. Scarites subterraneus Fabr. tDiplochilalaticollisz'ar. major Lee.
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