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ERRATA AND ADDENDA.

Page 35, line 15, for 1854- read 1855.

Page 55, line 16, for Horticultural read State Agricultural.

Page 60, in second table, Illinois, for 240 read 241.

Page 65, first line above foot-note, for ventricosa read ligamentina.

Page 72, line 9, for imhecilis read imbecillis.

Page 79, line 19, for asperimus read asperrimtts.

Page 80, above Quadrula rubiginosa insert Section Fusconaia Simpson.
Page 76. The record of Calkins for Margaritana margaritifera is without

doubt erroneous and should be eliminated. This species is not found in Illinois.

Page 95. Pomatiopsis sheldonii Pilsbry should read Amnicola sheldonii and
should be transferred to the genus Amnicola on page 93.

Page 100. Physa gyrina oleacea Tryon is the immature stage of Physa gyrina.

Page 103. Lymncsa tazewelliana is a synonym of Lymncea parva.

Page 105. Lymncea palustris michiganensis is the immature form of Lymncca
rcflcxa.

Page 106. Lymncza reflexa ioivensis and Lymncea reflexa crystalensis are

synonyms of Lymncea reflexa.

Page 112, line 6 from bottom, for goitldi read gouldii.

Page 114, line 5 from bottom, for jnxtigcns read juxtidens.

Page 115, line 21, for Witter read Walker; line 23, Polygyra sayii Binney should
be changed to Polygyra sayana Pilsbry.

Page 116, line 1. Polygyra exolcta Binney (1885) should be changed to

Polygyra zaleta Binney (1837).

Page 117, line 11 from bottom, for Icai read leaii; line 3 from bottom, Poly-
gyra monodon fraterna is a good species and should read Polygyra fraterna.

Page 119, foot-note. A specimen of alliarins in the collection of Mr. Aldrich,

received from Calkins, proves to be draparnaldi.

Page 121, line 3 from bottom, for Champaign read Piatt.

Page 122, line 12 from bottom, for Pyramidula siriatella Anthony read Pyra-
midiila cronkkitci anthonyi Pilsbry; line 4, for Held read Hald.

Page 123, for Helicodiscus lineatus Say read Hclicodiscus parallcliis Say.

Page 162, line 7, for glandulosa read linearis.

Page 171, line 17, for riparia read vulpina.

Page 176, line 8 from bottom, for canadense read majiis.

Page 180, line 9, for virginica read virginiana.

Page 221, line 6 from bottom, for rectangiiliis read rcctangttlaris.

Page 226, line 3, for fasciatus read fasciata.

Page 239, line 11, strike out Lake Co. entry.

Page 246, lines 6 and 7, and page 248, lines 1, 14, 20, and 23, for CEnothera
read Onagra.

Page 248, line 4, for Candida Horn substitute n. sp.



Pac^e 249, line 8 from bottom, for Olethreutes dimidiana Sodoff? read

Olethreutes separatana Kearfott, and strike out parenthetical matter.

Page 251, line 7, for grossa read thoracica; line 21, for words preceding H. 6,

read Asilus rufipennis Hine; line 18 from bottom, for words preceding H. 2, substi-

tute Asilus cacopilogus Hine.

Page 253, line 8, for Linn, read Emory.

Page 257, line 15, for pennsylvanicus DeG. read auricomus Rob.

Page 261, Note 6. Melanoplus macneilli is very probably M. ftuviatilis Brun.

Page 262, Note 9. Dr. Bergroth writes that Nabis elongatus is preoccupied.

The original is elogantus in the check list. Comparison with long-winged vicarius

is desirable before re-naming it.

Page 309, in table, for 59 read 57, and for 743 read 741.

Page 310, in table, for JS* read 57.

Page 314, line 5, for 1587 read 481; line 16, after stubble insert meadows; line

17, after pastures strike out and meadows, and after 1600 strike out each.

Page 315, last line, for 553 read 481.

Page 362, line 7 from bottom, for longa read parvilamellata.

Page 373. As a second entry in synonymy insert as follows:

1854. Nothrus bistriatus, Nicolet, Acariens des Environs de Paris, p. 397,

PI. VII., Fig. 7.

Page 376, line 13 from bottom, for Oribata read Oribates.

Page 378, line 1, for XXV. read XXXV.
Page 384, after line 5 insert as follows:

N. bipilis Hermann. Mem. Apt., p. 95.

In moss. Areola and Parker, 111.

Page 384, line 5 from bottom, for pyrostigma read pyrostigmata.

Page 386, after line 11 from bottom insert as follows:

H. bistriata Nicolet. Acariens des Environs de Paris, p. 397, PL VII.,

Fig. 7.

Under logs and in moss, Urbana and Areola, 111.

Page 388, line 12, for sphcerulum read sphcsrida.



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Article VII.

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On the Biohxjn of the Sand Amis of Illinois.

By Charles A. Hart and Henry Allan Gleason.

Introduction.

While located at Havana in connection with the work of

the Illinois Biological Station on the Illinois River, the writer

made a few trips to the tract of waste sandy land lying east of

the city, locally known as the Devil's Hole. A novel fauna and
flora were noted, but no systematic study of either was attempted
until August, 1903, when a brief survey was made of this local-

ity and of similar regions southeast and south of Havana in

company with Mr. H. A. Gleason, of the Department of Botany
at the University of Illinois, who studied the flora, the writer

giving attention to the fauna, especially to the insect life. At
the same season in the following year we made a second visit

to these regions, and also examined the sandy tract lying north-

east of Havana, between that city and Pekin, which culmi-

nates in a remarkable barren area called the Devil's Neck.
The botanical results of these two trips are presented by
Mr. Gleason as the second part of this joint article. In 1905

I was enabled to make brief comparative examinations of these

same regions in the early part of the season, and of similar sand

areas in other parts of western Illinois in August and Septem-
ber. In 1906 I paid a brief visit June 23 to the Illinois valley

sand region, stopping off at Bishop, 111.; and in August spent

a few days studying the sandy reaches on the flats bordering

Lake Michigan above Waukegan, 111. Delays in going to press

have enabled me to include herein some important data from
the latter locality concerning species already on the list. The
limited amount of time available for these visits enabled me
merely to secure some knowledge of the abundant, varied, and
largely unfamiliar insect fauna, and to develop a large crop of

highly interesting biological problems for future investigation.

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Part III. consists largely of some discussion of these prob-

lems, followed by an annotated list of species which it is hoped

may be an acceptable contribution to the knowledge of the in-

sect life of Illinois. A comparison of these western Illinois

areas with those of the northeastern part of the state is greatly

to be desired, as the indications are that their biotas di3er con-

siderably, and are derived more or less from different geograph-

ical sources.

In addition to the faunal studies, I have given particular

attention to the topography and remarkable glacial history

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especially with regard to the origin of the sand areas and their

fauna—of the Illinois River valley, nearly the entire length of

which I have traversed at one time or another. These subjects

are treated in Part I. as a preliminary to the biological studies.

The map is adapted from Leverett ('99, PI. VI.); plates

XXII. and XXIII. are from photographs belonging to the State

Laboratory of Natural History; and the remaining plates are-

from photographs by Mr. Gleason.

The authors are greatly indebted to'Professor S. A. Forbes,

Director of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History,

for his kindly interest and for the publication of this paper;

and they desire to acknowledge gratefully the cordial hospi-

tality and assistance of various citizens of Havana and vicinity.

C. A. Hart.



Fart I. Glacial Geoloc/i/ and General Characters of the Illi-

nois Sand Areas, especially those of Western Illinois. By Charles
A. Hart,

Glacial Geology.

Illinois as a land area has been subjected to at least two
principal glacial invasions from the direction of Lake Michigan,

the limits of these being roughly concentric with the lower end

of this lake. Much of our knowledge of them is derived from

the work of Leverett ('99), whose statements, supplemented

by my personal observations, form the principal basis of this

account.

The earlier of these ice invasions, thelllinoian, apparently

much more remote from the later one than this is from the

present time, reached about as far west as the Mississippi

River, and covered nearly all of Illinois except the northwest

corner and the hill country in the extreme south. The later

invasion, the Wisconsin, reached about half as far across the

state. The heavy deposits of gravel, sand, and clay brought

down by these ice-sheets have largely filled up and often en-

tirely obliterated the previous lines of drainage.

The contour of the rock surface beneath these deposits is

very imperfectly known, and deserves specific investigation.

Records of wells, borings, etc., show, however, that it is deeply

carved by immense river valleys of which there are often no

surface indications whatever. The great depth of these val-

leys, usually about one hundred feet below present river levels,

does not necessarily indicate a subsidence of this part of the

earth, but merely the undisturbed action of water for a vast

period of time, or of a greater volume for a lesser period, deep-

ening them to a low gradient nearing base-level, after which

the energy of the stream was mostly occupied in widening

them.

The Mississippi from Keokuk down and the Illinois below

the bend at Hennepin are still in ancient preglacial valleys,

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and apparently the entire area of Mason county lies within the

boundaries of the latter valley. The highest known point of

its rock surface is lower than that of any other county in Illi-

nois, and fifty feet below the present level of the river. Quite

probably this county lies in a forking of the preglacial valley,

an eastern fork being perhaps indicated by the drainage line

now occupied by Sugar Creek and the lower ends of Salt Creek

and the Sangamon River, the two latter sections being in a pre-

glacial valley at least four miles wide. Records of wells and coal

shafts indicate great valleys beneath Bloomington and Cham-
paign, and another valley leading south from Lake Michigan

near the Indiana line, but at present it is impossible to trace

these old drainage lines.

In northwestern Illinois the Illinoian invasion evidently

caused a radical readjustment of the river systems, turning

them westward across adjacent divides into other valleys be-

yond. (Leverett, '99, PI. XII.) The buried northward exten-

sion of the preglacial Illinois valley above Hennepin is appar-

ently continuous with that of Rock River above Rockford. At a

point just below this city the river now leaves its evident pregla-

cial channel, turning westward along side lines of its preglacial

tributaries, and is still cutting narrow passages across the rock

of the intervening divides. A considerable section of the Mis-

sissippi was temporarily crowded over some distance into Iowa,

where it has left a fairly well-marked channel that has greatly

modified the course of minor streams. It now leaves its great

preglacial valley not far below Fulton, 111., and runs south-

west at right angles across the still evident lines of preglacial

drainage, which appear to be directed eastwardly and to con-

verge in that direction. In the vicinity of Rock Island the

flow of both the Mississippi and Rock rivers seems to be up-

stream with regard to preglacial lines, in order to cross into an-

other ancient valley at Muscatine. The probability that the pre-

glacial Mississippi channel swings eastward beneath the pres-

ent lower Rock River valley, and thence across to the bend
of the Illinois, is confirmed by the remarkably low sag, espe-

cially in rock levels, along this line. In that case, it must have



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joined the Rock River somewhere in Bureau county, and the
lower Illinois valley was then part of one of the main drain-

age lines of the continent. The question naturally arises as to

the effect of this former relation on geographical distribution.

Apparently it had none, since the entire Illinois valley was
subsequently covered by the Illinoian glaciation, at which time
our river systems were shifted to about their present lines.

The exact rock limits of the preglacial Illinois valley are

but imperfectly knowm. Apparently in obedience to the gen-

eral law of the westward shift of southward-flowing streams,

the present river flood-plain from Peoria down (PL V.) follows

the west border of the immense valley, never very far from the

west bluff, which has a rock core throughout, and exhibits

practically all the few rock exposures of the lower valley. Be-

low Meredosia the valley is excavated in limestone strata and
is comparatively narrow, usually three or four miles wide, nar-

rowing to a minimum of two and a half miles. From Meredo-

sia up to Beardstown ( fifteen miles ) it widens out to six miles

or more. Above Beardstown the general rock surface was ap-

parently rather low originally and composed of softer strata,

and the valley is enormously expanded. The low east bluff is

completely concealed by subsequent deposits, yet from the

Sangamon to the Mackinaw^ the original valley is probably not

far from twenty miles wide. Above Peoria the limits of the

rock valley are largely undetermined, for reasons given further

on.

The deposits of the Illinoian glaciation are not very deep.

The water action seems to have been moderate, and the sur-

face sand deposits caused by it in Illinois are of little conse-

quence. The larger preglacial valleys, although usually tilled

with these deposits to a depth of about one hundred feet, are

as a rule still traceable, and are usually reoccupied by the main

streams, although slight deflections are not uncommon. The

terminal ridges pushed up by the ice in this period are now
discontinuous, fragmentary, or entirely wanting, although

often still prominent and massive. Probably the greater part



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of the deposits which now lie between the Illinois vallej^ bluffs

over the ancient rock bed are due to the lUinoian glaciation.

The next ice invasion, probably the lowan, came from the

northwest, and to this stage have been assigned deposits in

Illinois in the vicinity of the lower Rock River watershed. It

seems to have had no marked effect in our state.

Long ages after the close of the Illinoian period, came an

event which profoundly affected the future of Illinois, and

caused, among other things, the sand deposits studied by us.

The Wisconsin glacial invasion was not so extensive as the

Illinoian, but it is characterized by voluminous deposits, deeply

covering and almost entirely obliterating the previous surface

contours; by large and continuous ridges thrown up along the

terminal lines and during the successive stages of its retreat;

and by abundant and powerful water action. Upon or near

the terminal ridges in Illinois are the cities of Princeton,

Peoria, Pekin, Atlanta, Clinton, Shelbyville, Mattoon, and

Charleston.

A later substage of less extent but even greater intensity

was that called the Bloomington, whose terminal ridges branch

off eastward near Peoria, and pass under Bloomington and Gib-

son City, and to the north of Danville, 111., and Covington, Ind.

The enormous outwash of sand and gravel has left more or less

of its deposits in all the valleys leading away from these ridges.

The west side of the rock valley above Peoria was covered by

the terminal ridge to a height, near Peoria, of about 350 feet

above the present river, making a total depth of about 450 feet

of glacial deposits upon the bottom of the ancient rock valley.

The Illinois, clogged with more than it could carry, filled

its bed with sediment to a depth of about 170 feet above pres-

ent levels at Peoria within the gap in the terminal ridges, and

spread out in a vast detrital fan over the great expansion of

the valley below, with a comparatively rapid gradient of de-

scent. At the mouth of the Sangamon the filling reached

about 75 feet above present levels; and at the river's mouth,

about 50 feet. As the ice retreated and the water cleared,

nearly all of this vast deposit was swept out of the valley, leav-



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ing only a worked-over sandy surface, and, along the valley

margins, occasional gravel terraces.

The re-excavated expansion below Peoria is now about

twenty miles wide between Pekin and Havana, narrowing

gradually below Havana to about twelve miles near the mouth
of the Sangamon, and to seven miles at Beardstown, then

widening to about twelve miles in western Cass county. At
this point the expansion suddenly narrows, and the valley, now
in Mississippian limestones, assumes a fairly uniform width of

three or four miles. The eastern border of the expansion is in-

dicated by a low bluff, often obscured by subsequent wind ac-

tion. Teheran, Mason county, lies at the foot of this bluff.

After the ice had retreated from Hlinois but still occupied

the lower lake-region and St. Lawrence valley, the upper lakes

discharged for a time over the low divide at Chicago, along

present drainage lines, the valley in this stage of its history be-

ing called the Chicago Outlet. The clear and abundant flow ex-

cavated the present river flood-plain along the western side of the

valley to a depth of flfty to seventy feet below the glacial flood-

plain, about thirty feet below its present level. It also spread

out to some extent over the glacial flood-plain. Peoria Lake

was scooped out in the comparatively narrow opening through

the terminal Wisconsin ridges. Leverett ('99, PL VL) has in-

dicated the existence at this time of an eastern channel below

Pekin, occupying a depression now approximately followed by

the line of the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis railway from the

Mackinaw River below Pekin to Havana. The Mackinaw enters

this depression about ten miles south of Pekin, and, turning

abruptly northward, reaches the Illinois by way of the upper

end of the channel. Quiver Creek enters it near Forest City,

and follows it down to the Hlinois. The railroad runs along

the eastern side of the ancient island included between the two

channels. The topography along this line has probably l)een

altered to a considerable extent by wind action upon the loose

surface deposits since the formation of the eastern channel.

With the establishment of the St. Lawrence drainage the Hli-

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in this river, and probably in the Mississippi also, has resulted

in a slight and gradual filling, in the Illinois River amounting
now to twenty-five or thirty feet.

Topography.

The present lower Illinois River is an inconsiderable stream,

normally six hundred to one thousand feet wide, flowing in a

belt of very low bottom-land extensively occupied by large

swamps, sloughs, and lakes. {^\. V., VI. ) This bottom-land
is usually two to four miles in width, narrowest where it passes

through the Wisconsin terminal ridges near Peoria and in the

narrower part of the valley towards the mouth. Its naturally

slow current is still further reduced by the series of govern-

ment dams, permitting a deposit of soft mud over nearly the en-

tire under-water surface. A few expansions occur, such as Pe-

oria Lake and Havana Lake, respectively a mile and a half-mile

wide, but these are shallow, and the river is gradually filling

them up and building an enclosed channel down through them.
On the other hand, the bottom-lands, although below normal
levels for a stream of this size, are so extensive that their gen-

eral filling up would require a comparatively long period of

time. Doubtless under present conditions of the watershed the

river is depositing silt vastly more rapidly than it did before

the original prairies were broken up and drained for cultiva-

tion.

The remaining spaces between this modern flood-plain and
the upland bluffs are occupied by the glacial flood-plain or
" second bottom," thirty to fifty feet above the river and twenty
to forty feet above the lower flood-plain. (PL ¥¥t.) That
portion of this glacial flood-plain which occupies the great ex-

pansion of the central part of the lower valley contains the
principal sand deposits of the valley, and has been especially

studied by us. This lies entirely between the distant low east-

ern bluffs and the present flood-plain, which closely follows

the west bluff. It is about seventy-five miles long, extending
from the morainic border below Peoria to the vicinity of Mere-
dosia, Morgan county. It occupies the southwest part of Taze-



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well comity and extends across nearly the whole of Mason
county to the Sangamon, with a maximum width of eighteen

miles near the upper end, narrowing southward to about ten

miles. The lower part—that below the Sangamon—forms a

minor expansion of about half this width in western Cass

county and the northwestern corner of Morgan county.

The total area is approximately seven hundred square

miles. Except for light superficial deposits its substance is

largely sand, which usually reaches to considerable depths.

The surface exhibits broad level areas capped by a shallow but

rich soil, many of which were originally wet or swampy, but

are now drained and cultivated. These alternate with large

areas of surface sand—the great sand-bars of the glacial river

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drifted by long-continued wind action into irregular, undulat-

ing dunes, often barren and desolate, which have traveled

northeastward with the prevailing winds. Frequently these

dunes form long ridges parallel to the general direction of the

valley. Even the bordering uplands are frequently capped with

small sand-dunes and ridges which presumably came from the

adjacent valley-margin. In drifting with the wind these sand

masses have of course overridden to some extent the soil of the

level areas, but were probably originally continuous with the

underlying sands.

THE SURFACE SANDS.

The surface sand begins at the north with a few narrow

strips along the river near Pekin, above the mouth of the

Mackinaw. Below this river the sand-covered area is quite

large. Only an estimate can be given of its actual extent.

The governmental Soil Survey (Bonsteel, '03) reports 22,976

acres of it in southwestern Tazewell county, within a flood-

plain area of about eighty square miles, or 51,200 acres. The

sand therefore occupies rather more than forty percent of the

total flood-plain area in this county. This ratio is doubtless

larger in Mason county, which has not yet been examined by

the Soil Survey, but accepting it for the entire basin of seven



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hundred square miles, it would indicate 179,200 acres, or 280

square miles, of sand.

In an agricultural state like Illinois the economic aspect

of such a body of sand becomes of importance. Farm land on

the neighboring uplands is valued at $100 to $150 per acre, and

yields good crops of corn and oats—the grains most generally

cultivated. A considerable part of the sand area also yields

excellent grain crops, but in these fields patches of more or less

barren or worthless sand often occur. This land is in fact

much better adapted to truck crops. Much of the sand is usable

only for pasture, and in Mason county alone there are thousands

of acres, assessed at a one-fifth valuation of one dollar per acre,

which are not used for any purpose. In no other part of central

or northern Illinois, except in the larger river-bottoms, are

there such extensive tracts of waste land.

The surface configuration, wind action on sand, plant-cov-

ering, and similar details of this sand area, are described in con-

nection with the biological studies which follow.

OTHER SAND AREAS.

The remaining sand areas of Illinois are but imperfectly

known to me as yet, but a brief statement concerning the

principal ones seems desirable.

The presence of sand in the soil is not sufficient to

modify the character of the biota until it becomes so abundant
as to affect the physical character of the surface and cause it

to drift easily with the wind, when it is called blow-sand.

When this point is reached, cultivation becomes difficult, and
the land is usually left undisturbed even by pasturage. In ad-

dition to the biotic change due directly to the excess of sand,

the absence of cultivation favors the development of a rich and
varied fauna and flora. A large part of the areas usually

mapped as sandy do not reach this extreme stage, and are con-

sequently of less interest biologically.

In the large sand area of the expanded middle section of

the lower Illinois valley, blow-sand is of frequent occurrence.

The upper section, about fifty-five miles in length, lying with-



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in the limits of the Wisconsin glaciation, includes but small

areas of the glacial flood-plain, and these are not especially

sandy, although it is stated (Leverett, '99, p. 267) that there are

some dunes capping the eastern bluff-line near the upper end.

The lower section, extending from Meredosia to the mouth of

the river, about sixty-five miles long, is also narrow, and al-

though the strips of glacial flood-plain are often quite sandy,

they are, so far as I know, destitute of blow-sand.

In the Mississippi River valley also, well-developed sand

areas of the same general charaicter as the large Illinois River

area are similarly present a little farther northward. Large

tracts of sand lie on the sag over the supposed preglacial con-

nection between the two rivers, and a similar very sandy glacial

flood-plain extends interruptedly along the east side of the

valley of the Mississippi, with small dunes capping some of the

bordering uplands, from near Burlington, Iowa, up to the

vicinity of Savanna, 111. Blow^-sand is known to l>e present,

with all its attendant phenomena, in considerable quantities.

The glacial flood-plain along this river is also quite sandy be-

low Burlington over considerable distances, as far as the mouth
of the Illinois, but so far as known without true blow-sand de-

velopment. The blow-sand areas of these two rivers are ap-

parently very similar also in organic life, and evidently should

be grouped together.

East of the Illinois River, along the Wisconsin morainic

border, especially in eastern Illinois and in adjacent Indiana

counties, there is considerable sandy outwash along the rivers,

but no definite development of blow-sand is known to me.

These sandy strips appear in the Sangamon valley near Niantic,

along the Embarras in Cumberland and Ja,sper counties, and in

the Wabash valley near Covington, Ind., and fromTerre Haute,

Ind., to the mouth of the river, the sand at Covington resulting

from the Bloomington glacial substage.

There is an important sand area in northeastern Illinois,

with considerable development of blow-sand, derived from the

glacial outwash and sand beaches of the upper Kankakee val-



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ley. It extends into northwestern Indiana, and is not far dis-

tant from the dunes about the south end of Lake Michigan. It

is probably similar to these in its plant and animal life, but

differs definitely in this respect from the western Illinois areas,

judging from published records of collections in the district.



Part II. A Botanical Survef/ of the Illinois River Valleij

Sand Region.*—By Henry Allan Gleason.

Introductory,

The ecological study of sand-dune vegetation has in recent

years attracted the attention of numerous American botanists,

and many noteworthy contributions to it have been made.
Dune vegetation is especially well adapted to ecological inves-

tigation, since the changes in the physical factors of the envi-

ronment are usually considerable, the component associations

are sharply distinguished, physiographic processes go on with

comparatively great rapidity, and the plant inhabitants show
characteristic features in habit and structure. The vegetation

of the dunes bordering Lake Michigan has been studied in de-

tail by Cowles, while Rydberg, and Pound and Clements have

described the sand-hills of Nebraska. Intermediate in position

between these two regions lie the sand deposits now to be con-

sidered, and it is hoped that the matter presented may be of

some value, not only in the study of sand vegetation in general,

but in extending a knowledge of the origin of the prairie flora

and of the relation of the forest to the prairie.

The field work upon which this study is based, was carried

on during the summers of 1903 and 1904, mainly in the vicinity

of Havana, Mason county.

Ecological Factors.

The varying structure and distribution of vegetation are

an expression of the various conditions to which it is subjected.

Any force or condition, present or past, which has in any way
an effect upon vegetation may be termed an ecological factor.

The use of this term is, however, more generally restricted to

* Mr. Gleason's manuscript for thia paper was filed for publication early in 1905.

Its appearance has been retarded by inevitable delays in the completion of the con-

tributions of Mr. Hart, it being the intention and desire of both the authors that their

work should be published jointly in a single paper.— S. A. F.

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those forces or conditions which have or have had direct influ-

ence, and among them may be mentioned the historical factors

of migration, succession, and the like; the physical factors of

water, temperature, and soil; and the biotic factors, including

competition, layering, and others. The various factors are by

no means independent, but each influences the others and is to

some degree influenced by them. The biotic and historical

factors are here mentioned either incidentally or under the head-

ing of phytogeography, but the physical factors are in many
cases so different from those normal to other parts of Illinois

that they are discussed more in detail.

The physical factors which aid in the control of the vege-

tation of any area have been divided by Schimper ('98, p. 174)

into two groups, climatic and edaphic. The climatic factors are

temperature and rainfall, and they determine respectively the

specific composition of the flora and the general character of

the vegetation, whether forest, prairie, or desert. Similar

climatic factors are operative over broad areas, and the changes

from one type of climate to another are usually very gradual.

Local variations in the vegetation are due to the physical or

chemical composition of the soil, to its exposure to the sun, to

the available supply of water, and to other such factors, desig-

nated collectively by the term edaphic. Edaphic factors are

always influenced by, and are sometimes the direct result of,

the climate. They are also modified to a greater or less extent

by the plant-covering, as will be shown later in the discussion

of the plant associations.

Although the climate of thelUinoisRiver valley sand region

is in every essential respect like that of other parts of central

and western Illinois, a strikingly different vegetation has been

developed. Receiving the same amounts of heat, light, and

rainfall, and exposed to the same winds, the differences in veg-

etation are due in every case to the sand in its relation to wind,

moisture, and available food supply.

The designation Miami fine sand has been applied by the

United States Bureau of Soils to the sand composing these

extensive deposits along the Illinois River, and the following



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description of it is taken from the report of this bureau on the

soil survey of Tazewell county (Bonsteel, '08).

'The sand consists of partly rounded grains of quartz stained

rusty yellow or orange by iron, and made slightly loamy by

the presence of silt or clay. There is no distinction between
soil and subsoil. Organic matter is very deficient, as is shown
in the following table giving the mechanical analysis of a sam-

ple of Miami fine sand from 7| miles west of Delavan, Tazewell

county.

"Organic matter, 0.53% Fine sand, .25-. 1 mm., 62.20%

Gravel, 2-1 mm., 0.10% Very fine sand,,. l-.05mm., 6.24%
Coarse sand, 1-5 mm., 3.92% Silt, .05-.005 mm., 2.86%

Medium sand,. 5-25 mm., 22.26% Clay, .005-.0001 mm., 2.42%"

The soil in the depressions between the sand deposits,

known as Miami loam, contains from 1.69% to 2.80% of organic

matter, while other soils in the county contain as high as 4.69%-

In every region where large quantities of sand are exposed,

the wind plays an exceedingly important part in the ecology

of the plant life. Inland it is by no means so active a factor

as on or near the shores of large bodies of water, where its ve-

locity is greater and the sand is less protected by a covering of

vegetation. Sand blown by the wind may do considerable me-

chanical injury to the leaves, young stems, and other succulent

parts, but as the plants growing in the sand associations are

usually adapted to it they are seldom much affected. Urowing

crops, however, are sometimes badly damaged. The native

plant-covering is normally sufficient to prevent much blowing,

but if it is any way destroyed, large excavations called blow-

outs are formed, which, as they increase in size, undermine and

destroy most of the vegetation. The sand in these blowouts

is so loose and easily disturbed by the wind that only a few

species of plants are able to grow in it. The sand removed by

the wind is deposited on the leeward 5ide in a fan-shaped heap

nearly or quite bare of vegetation (PL XII., Fig. 2), or is

blown on as a traveling dune. To protect themselves against

this shifting of the sand, many plants are especially adapted

as sand-binders, and effectually hold the sand in position.



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Of far greater importance as an ecological factor is the sand

in its relation to the water supply and, indirectly, to the sup-

ply of plant food. It is a known fact that coarse soils, such as

sands, have a smaller capacity for water than fine soils, the

water being held as a thin film surrounding the soil par-

ticles, and surface-tension being less effective over large sur-

faces than over small ones. The water capacity of soils, accord-

ing to experiments by Schuebler and Wollny (Warming, '96,

p. 51), is least in quartz sand. Schimper ('98, p. 94) states that

the water which loose sand can hold is but 13.7 percent of its

own volume, while clay has a capacity of 40.9 percent. Exper-

iments by the United States Bureau of soils (Whitney and
Hosmer, '97, pp. 14-17) on sandy soil in Alabama showed a

water content varying from maxima of 11 percent and 14 per-

cent after rains to minima as low as 1 percent and .6 percent

during periods of drought. This is in marked contrast with

the results of similar experiments on prairie sod in Kansas,

where the water content varied from a maximum of 15 percent

to a minimum of 7.4 percent, and on blue-grass land in Ken-
tucky, where the average content was over 20 percent, and
the line of drought, at which the vegetation began to suffer,

was at 15 percent. The actual size of the particles composing
these soils is not stated. Warming {I. c.) quotes Wollny as

saying that the water capacity of quartz sand composed of

particles 1-2 mm. in diameter is only one tenth that of sand

with particles .01-07 mm. in diameter. No data are as yet avail-

able concerning the actual water capacity of the Miami fine

sand in Illinois, but it must be much lower than that of the

other soil types of the district.

The power of capillary action to lift water from lower

levels is also less in coarse-grained than in fine-grained soils;

and in fine sand, according to Ramann (Warming, '96, p. 50),

water will rise only 40 centimeters, or about 16 inches, above
the surface of the ground-water. In sand with grains from .25

mm. to .1 mm. in diameter, such as constitutes 62 percent of

the Miami fine sand in Mason county, water should rise by
capillary attraction from 19 to 48 inches. It is evident that no



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water could by this means be brought within reach of the
smaller plants when the level of the ground-water is twenty
feet or more below the surface, as it is in Mason county.

The water-retaining properties of the sand are also of im-
portance to the vegetation. The effect of the percolation of

rain water is the saturation of the upper layers of sand to a

depth dependent upon the amount of rain. If the surface is

dry or only partially saturated, that will hrst be brought to full

saturation, and the surplus water will sink down to lower

levels. None is removed by surface drainage, so that, aside

from the small quantity remaining attached to plants and other

objects, all the rainfall sinks at once into the sand. Evapora-

tion from the surface removes large quantities of water, but ac-

cording to results obtained by King ('04, p. 159) in North Caro-

lina this is less from sand than from loams or clays. By the

drying out of the upper few inches a mulch of loose sand is

formed, which still further reduces evaporation. King found

that eight ninths of the water which might be expected to

evaporate is thus retained, and that during twenty-eight days

in July and August, 1902, only .205 in. evaporated from the sur-

face. The climate of central Illinois during the summer is not

so different from that of North Carolina as to lead us to expect

here any considerable variation from the above record. The
moisture in the deeper layers of sand is thus effectually con-

served. After a considerable period of drought, as in August,

1894, when only .21 in. of rain had fallen in eighteen days,

the sand at a depth of three inches was still moist enough

to compact readily in the lingers. Thus, while the actual

amount of water present is small, it is nevertheless constant,

and it is a common statement of the farmers in Mason coun-

ty that corn grown upon the sand is less susceptible to

drought than that on the more fertile holds of loam. Accord-

ing to Professor J. G. Mosier, of the Illinois Agricultural Ex-

periment Station, the "firing" of corn on the sand is due to a

deficiency of plant food and not to lack of water. Some inter-

esting cases of other soil types, having similar but more marked

powers of water conservation, are reported by Whitney ('98).



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He describes soils in California which can mature crops with-

out any rain during the growing season, and without irriga-

tion.

All the water held in the soil by capillary action is not

available for plants, but the percentage which can be absorbed

is greater in coarse-grained soils, like sand, than in those of

finer texture. Experiments by Sachs showed that in a clay

with a water capacity of 52,1 percent, only 44.1 percent could

be used by a tobacco plant, leaving 8 percent of unavailable

water; while in a sand with 20.8 percent water capacity, 19.3

percent, very nearly the whole amount present, was available.

These results are substantiated in the field, plants suffering

from drought in some soils with 15 percent water, while in

others, of more sandy nature, they are still healthy with a

water content of less than 5 percent.

In contrast with the foregoing data mention should be

made of the experiments of Livingston and Jensen ('04), who
have shown that the fertility of the soil is dependent on the

size of the component particles, and that coarseness alone "can
produce sterility in spite of a plentiful supply of water." It is

entirely possible, then, that the mere size of the sand particles

may be an important ecological factor in the sand region along
the Illinois River.

But independently of the quantity of water present in the
sand, the precipitation must have a marked bearing on the
quantity and kind of available plant food. In all the sand re-

gion, as before stated, there is no surface drainage. Water
falling as rain sinks at once into the sand, and the excess is re-

moved by underground drainage to the Illinois River, where it

issues through countless springs along the east bank. After
the heaviest rains, water may collect for a time in the blow-
outs and interdunal depressions, but it soon sinks into the sand.
By this rapid percolation through the upper layers of sand
much of the soluble matter must be dissolved and carried down
to the level of the ground-water, which in this region is never
less than twenty feet below the surface (Leverett, '96, p. 759;



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'99, p. 688), and on the higher sand-hills is certainly much
lower. It is here beyond the reach of all plants except the

larger trees, and they, too, must be able to live in the poorer

surface sand until their roots have penetrated nearly to the

level of the ground-water.

The importance of the relation of food supply to vegeta-

tion has probably been greatly underestimated, while too much
stress has been placed on the water supply and the physical

condition of the soil. Whitney and Cameron ('03) have even
declared that all ordinary soils contain plant food sufficient for

the growth of crops, and this may well be so in a soil contain

ing relatively large amounts of calcium, potassium, magnesium,
and phosphorus, even though little may be available at any
one time; but in a sand composed in very large proportion of

silica, the leaching action of the rainfall must ultimately tend

toward the exhaustion of the plant food, leaving a residue of

silica and other insoluble substances. Such has been found the

case in various places. Livingston ('05, p. 26) has remarked
upon the low content of soluble salts in some sands in north-

ern Michigan. Graebner ('01, p. 64) has discussed the leaching

action of rain on the sandy soils in Germany, and decides that

the formation of heaths there is due in great part to the insuffi-

cient supply of plant food. No full determinations of the solu-

ble matter in the Miami fine sand have as yet been made, but,

according to Professor Mosier, this sand is deficient in plant

food of all kinds. The relative height of plants growing in

Mason county on sand and on loam soils, certainly indicates a

scarcity of plant food in the former. Indian corn tassels on

the sand at a height of three to four feet; Monarda punctata is

usually little over a foot high; and many other species are con-

spicuously below the size reached in the neighboring woods

and on the prairies.

Unfortunately none of the foregoing theories has been

tested by actual experiment on sand plants in the region un-

der discussion, and until more definite knowledge is available,

one can only believe that in general the supply of food matter



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and the physical properties of the sand, including the size of

the particles and to some extent the water content, are both

of importance, and by their combined effect determine the pe-

culiar type of vegetation. Direct observation alone, however,

is sufficient to show that the water supply on the dunes is rea-

sonably constant, and the plants owe their xerophytic habit to

the rapid loss of water by transpiration, and not to a deficient

soil content.

The climate in these sand regions is of course similar to

that of the surrounding parts of the state, and has no direct in-

fluence in causing the marked differences in vegetation. Nev-

ertheless, temperature is of importance in determining the flora

of any region, and the mixed prairie and forest type of vegeta-

tion of central and northern Illinois is to some extent the result

of the seasonal distribution of rainfall. For these reasons, as

well as to show the general climatic conditions of the area un-

der discussion, tables showing the precipitation and tempera-

ture are included. The data are taken from Hosier's "Climate

of Illinois", and are given for Havana so far as observations at

that place are available. The records are also given for Peoria

and Springfield, Illinois, and for Keokuk, Iowa, three cities

forming a triangle, with Havana and the sand region in its

approximate center. It should be noted that the temperature
readings are taken under the regular shelters used by the U. S.

Weather Bureau, and consequently do not represent the de-

gree of heat to which plants are normally subjected.

Monthly and Annual Mean Temperature.

Station

Havana
Keokuk . .

.

Peoria
Springfield

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range in summer is 50°, but no data are available showing the

daily range. The average date in the central district for the

last killing frost in spring is April 21, and for the first in au-

tumn, October 10, thus including a growing season of 172 days.

Mean Monthly and Annual Rainfall.

Station



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across the country, by rail and on foot, is that the two are

about equal in extent.

THE BUNCH-GRASS ASSOCIATION.

Through the prairie formation the bunch-grass association

is the prevailing one, covering alike the level areas of sand and

the dunes, and broken only by cultivated fields or by blowouts

and blow-sand. The association derives its name from, and is

characterized by, several species of grasses which grow in com-

pact stools or bunches varying from a foot to two feet in diam-

eter. They are not crowded so closely as to produce a sod, as in

the typical Illinois prairies, but stand a little distance apart,

thus making the bunch character prominent (PL XVIIE., Fig. 1).

There is but little of the bunch-grass prairie remaining in its

original state, most of it having been pastured with horses or

cattle, which by their grazing have greatly changed the char-

acter of the vegetation. Southeast of Bath there is a field

which has apparently never been pastured (PI. VIII., IX.), and

the following description of the original type of bunch-grass

prairie is based on its character there and on small strips along

the railroads.

The principal grasses are Eragrostis trichodes, Stipa spartea,

Panicum cognatum, and an undetermined species of Panicum.

The first two species produce large loose bunches, one to two

feet in diameter and almost as high, with the culms rising to a

height of three to five feet. Panicum cognatum grows in dense

flat bunches scarcely a foot high, exclusive of the widely spread-

ing panicles, and the undetermined Panicum is even lower, with

the basal leaves and culms almost prostrate. Tricuspis sesleri-

oides, with loose bunches much like those of Eragrostis trichodes,

is abundant in some places, especially near the edge of timber
;

Calamovilfa longifoUa, with culms six feet high, occurs sparingly

in patches ; and Eragrostis pectinacea, Bouteloua hirsuta, Pani-

cum virgatum, Paspalum setaceum, and Sporoholus crgptandrus

also produce more or less well-developed bunches. Carex grav-

ida and Cgperus Schweinitzii have tufts of basal leaves from
which several culms arise, and may also be grouped with the



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Inmch-formers. Three other grasses, St/ntherlfoua jUifonnia.

Aristida fuberculosa, and Cenchnts frihuloic/es, and two sedges,

Ct/penis Bushil and ('. filieiilmis. are abundant, but do not foi'm

bunches.

The distribution of the remaining members of the associa-

tion, about fifty in numl)er, is very irregular, and a group of

representative species can not be chosen from them. Uosa hu-

mnlis. So(i(hif/(> iH/sso/frifiisis. Aiiiorp/ia ctn/f'sccns, Opuiitid Innni-

fusd, ('((Uiri'lioc frifn/f/ii/afd, and M<))Hir(/(t pin/cfafd are the most
conspicuous, but as the quantitative study of the plants shows,

not so numerous as TcHcrimucanddensc^OY AnihrosidpsiJostdrhyd.

With the exception of Moiidn/((ptnui<(fd and the last two species,

these grow in rather dense, rounded patches. The same is true

to a lesser extent of almost every other species in this class,

but since the individuals are smaller or less abundant, many
other species may be included, or two or more patches, each

with traceable outlines, may overlap. If the plants are at all

conspicuous the overlapping is plainly seen, and in any case it

is brought out by quantitative study of the area. This form of

distribution is characteristic of associations where there are no

progressive changes in any of the ecological factors, and conse-

quently no zonal arrangement of the plants. Annuals with

limited means of seed dispersal, and perennials spreading by

rootstocks or runners, naturally grow in rounded patches un-

der those conditions. It is evident, then, that while the bunch-

grasses are representative, the other species, of merely local

distribution, are to be considered as secondary members of the

association.

Table I. shows the distribution of the species in a piece of

original bunch-grass prairie. The letters after each name here

and in subsequent tables, indicate the number of individuals, if

any, in one quadrat of one hundred square feet, d signifying 1

to 5; /;, 5-10; r, 10-25; r/, 25-50; <% 50-100;/; 100-200; //, over

200; and o, none. These counts were estimated for the most

part, although care was taken to make actual counts at inter-

vals in order to avoid so far as possible any serious errors of ob-

servation. The quadrats in this table, as well as in all the oth-



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er tables, were side by side, in this instance extending in a strip

110 feet long by 10 feet wide. Near the area covered by these

quadrats, but not included in them, were patches of Solidago

missoHviensis (r) and 7?06y/ humilis [e); c and e, as above de-

fined, indicating their respective numbers per quadrat.

TABLE I. ORIGINAL BUNCH-GRASS PRAIRIE.

Eragrosfcis trichodes



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Grazing results in the destruction of the larger species of

bunch-formers, leaving Panicum cognatuw and the undeter-

mined Paninun, PaspaJum setaceiini, ?ind Boiifeloua hirsuia as the

predominant grasses. The other species, such as Eragrostis

trichof/es and Sfipa spartea, so prominent in the original vege-

TABLE II. PASTURED BUNCH-GRASS.

(Not pastured for two years preceding count.)

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four predominant species are all small, and produce low flat

bunches, giving the association an appearance widely different

from the original. The sedges, especially Cyperns Schuwinitzri

and Carex gravidff still persist, almost as abundantly as before.

Certain other species are much more abundant, such as Monar-

da punctata, Cassia chamwcrista, and Ojiuntia linmifusa, as well

as the less important Polygoniun tenue, Crotonopsis glandidosa,

and Foli/ga/a verfici/lata. Lept/loii ranadense and Ambrosia

psUostachya are usually very abundant, but on account of their

slender habit are not very conspicuous. Euphorbia Geyeri, more

characteristic of blow-sand, is in some places common, and

Chrysopsis ramporuui, Froelichia campestris, (Enothera rkombipet-

ala, Crotoii ylandulosus, Lespedeza capitata, LitJiospermuni line-

arifolium, and Coinmeliua rirginica are well distributed, but

seldom plentiful.

Table 11. shows the composition of the vegetation of a pas-

tured bunch-grass prairie, which, however, has not been in pas-

ture for two years preceding. The first quadrat is near the foot

of a dune, and the survey ran up the dune, ending near its top.

Table III. gives the results of a survey of a field which has

been used for pasture for several years. The bunch-grass has

been largely destroyed, and is replaced by Opuntia, Ambrosia,

and Leptilon.

THE BLOW-SAND ASSOCIATION.

The bunch-grass prairie, while of a more or less permanent

nature, is in no sense a climax association, but may be modified,

through the action of certain physical factors on the one hand

and of biotic factors on the other, along two definite and dis-

tinct lines, culminating in two widely different plant associa--

tions. In the first case the wind is the principal factor, and

primarily through its influence the bunch-grass association is

changed into blow-sand and blowout associations and ulti-

mately into a prairie. In the second case, biotic factors are of

chief importance, and the prairie is finally succeeded by the

black-jack forest, representing an entirely distinct formation.

Wherever considerable bodies of sand occur, the wind



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plays a prominent part in detei'mining the physiography, caus-

ing migrating dunes and blowouts, where the sand shifts so

readily that it remains entirely without vegetation (^Pl. XII.,

Fig. 1), or is colonized only by those few species able to adapt

themselves to the peculiar ecological conditions (PI. XIII.)

.

Some resistance to the wind action is usually offered by the

vegetation, so that the area occupied by the blow-sand is lim-

TABLE III. PASTURED BUNCH-GRASS.

(In pasture up to time of count.

)

Paspalum setaceum



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tually balanced by that deposited, and the whole remaining

approximately in a state of equilibrium. On the crests of the

dunes, however, where the sand is more exposed to the wind

and more is blown away than is deposited, the plants are fre-

quently separated by shallow excavations, and may sometimes

be uprooted entirely, thereby permitting the free action of the

wind, and leading to the formation of a blowout. In fields

that have been pastured, there is frequently a black crust an

inch or so deep formed over the surface, probably by the decay

of the grass and leaves trampled into the sand by cattle. In

dry weather this crust is quite hard, and effectually checks the

shifting of the sand.

The resistance offered by the vegetation is, indeed, very

effectual, and some old settlers say that there were no blowouts

in the sand region in the middle of the last century, when set-

tlements were first begun, but that they haye all been formed

since then. The report of the Illinois Greological Survey pub-

lished in 1870 does not mention them, and it is improbable that

such conspicuous blowouts as exist to-day could have escaped

the attention of the State Geologist, who traveled over the

country on horseback. There are, however, a few large fields of

blowouts and blow-sand that have been in existence as long

as the neighboring residents can remember, such as the Devil's

Neck (PI. XII., Fig. 1; XIV., Fig. 1 ), north of Topeka, where a

field of about eighty acres is entirely covered with blow-sand.

Plowing is generally believed to be the cause of the forma-

tion of blowouts, the natural vegetation being thus destroyed,

and the sand left exposed to the winds of winter and spring

after the cultivated crops are removed. All of the Miami loam

between the sand deposits is under cultivation, and the fre-

quent efforts of the farmers to extend their fields upon the dunes

have often led to disastrous results. Adjacent fields of fertile

soil are known to have been ruined in that way (PL XL), and

at present most farmers let the sand stand unused, or use it for

pasture only. It is also said that cattle may destroy the veg-

etation, and that blowouts may be started in this way.

When the protective covering of vegetation is once broken,



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by whatever means, blowing proceeds rapidly, resulting in the

saucer- or bowl-shaped excavations known as blowouts (Pl.VIIL,

IX., XV.). Their depth may finally be as great as the depth of

the sand itself, and their area is sometimes several acres in ex-

tent. Their sides usually have a gentle slope, but are some-
times quite steep where the bunch-grass along the crest has

restricted the blowing (PI. XIV., Fig. 2). The sand removed
from the blowouts is piled up on the leeward side in a more or

less fan-shaped heap, and this in turn is blown on by the wind
as a traveling dune (PI. XII., Fig. 2). Blowouts may be par-

tially or wholly refilled by sand, being thus transformed into

level tracts (PI. XIII. ), generally called blow-sand, and when
these become large the individual blowouts lose their identity

and the whole tract becomes a vast undulating surface of shift-

ing sand. The limit of size is reached when the blowout be-

comes so large that it no longer offers much resistance to the

wind, or so deep that the wind does not have sufficient force to

carry the sand from the bottom up over the sides, or when
moister layers of sand are reached which can not be blown.

In young blowouts, when the excavation is being carried

on most rapidly, vegetation is very sparse, and the few species

able to grow in such conditions constitute the typical blow-

sand association. They are mostly plants with a short period

of development, which may mature before the shifting of the

sand has undermined their root-system, and they frequently

possess methods of seed distribution by which they are enabled

to colonize rapidly on barren areas of sand. The most charac-

teristic species are Amhrosia psilostachya, Cassia chamctcr/sta,

Cenchnis tribuloides, Cyclolotna atriplic{foliam,Cri^MM(i Jainesii,

and Aristlda tuberculosa. Of these. Cassia and Cenchrus are the

most abundant. Six to ten thousand plants of Cenchrus, none

of them more than six inches high, sometimes grow on a single

quadrat ten feet square, and a third of them produce seeds.

Cassia prefers sand that is loose from blowing or that has been

otherwise disturbed. Wagon tracks across the sand are quickly

occupied by it, and are marked by long parallel lines of the

plants, which are very conspicuous in the blooming season.



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Cassia, however, can not grow upon such rapidly shifting sand

as Cenchrus can, and both are surpassed in this by Cycloloma

atripUcifollum. Cristatella Jamesil is absolutely confined to

blow-sand (PI. XX., Fig. 1), and disappears when the blowing

is stopped.

Numerous other species may occur, such as Croton gUmdu-
losus, Euphorbia Geyevi, Ambrosia psilostachya, Sporobolus cryp-

tandrus, Mollugo verticillata, and Acerafes viridiflora. Others,

less abundant, are usually relics of the bunch-grass association,

the original occupant of the territory, which have persisted

because their sand-binding adaptations have prevented their

being undermined and blown away.

Blowouts of any age may be filled up and converted into

level stretches of blow-sand, covered with the blow-sand asso-

ciation already described, but with more Cycloloma and less

Cassia in the older ones. The vegetation is always sparse, and
the blowing of the sand during the fall and winter is sufficient

to prevent the perennials of the bunch-grass association from

gaining a foothold. Over wide stretches of blow-sand there is

frequently absolutely no vegetation, while on others there is

nothing but Cycloloma, Ambrosia, Cassia, and Cenchrus.

Counts in a developing blowout and in a few typical areas

of blow-sand are here given.

TABLE IV. SMALL BLOWOUT.

Cassia chamaecrista

Ambrosia psilostachya

Cenchrus tribuloides

Cristatella Jamesii

Froelichia campestris

Euphorbia Geyeri

Lithospermum linearifolium

Cyperus Schweinitzii

Cycloloma atriplicifolium

Monarda punctata

* See p. 159.

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o o o o a a

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and numerous species of the bunch-grass may also spring up,

but a new group of species appears, and by their predominance

the aspect of the vegetation is entirely changed (PI. XV.).

Among the first to appear is Stenophyllus caplllaris, which

grows in a carpet over the flat bottom of the blowout, but

never extends up the sloping sides. Its growth soon results in

the formation of a thin layer of black humus over the surface.

Associated with it usually are large clumps of Panicmn virga-

twn and Soryhastnim avenaceum. These grasses are typical

plants of damp blowouts and interdunal depressions, but re-

tain their place even when the blowout is subsequently cov-

ered by blow-sand. Andropogon furcatus, another grass com-

mon on the black-soil prairies, is frequent, and with these her-

baceous species are often associated a number of woody forms

not found at all in the bunch-grass prairie or in the black-jack

timber. These are Vitis vulpina, Menispermuni. canadense, Popu-

lus deltoides (PI. IX.), and Acer Negundo (PI. XVII.) . All of

these have effective methods of seed dispersal, and are probably

disseminated widely over the sand area, but are able to effect

ecesis only in these more favorable conditions. The two vines

scramble over the ground, but the trees grow rapidly and, like

the grasses above mentioned, persist even when the blowout

is refilled with sand. The past history and position of the blow-

outs are frequently shown by a large cottonwood or box-elder

tree, buried in sand to its lower branches. Two species of Cla-

donia soon appear, and are active as soil formers. They are

not restricted to the very wettest part, as is Stenophyllus, but

extend out upon the naked sand, and also occur in shallower

blowouts which have never reached a condition suitable for

the sedge. Following the Cladonke are Antennaria sp. and He-

lianthus occidentalis, and, a little later, such other species as

Hieracium longipilum, Helianthus scaberrimus, Meibomia cana-

densis, Lacinaria scariosa, Mesadenia atrlplicifoUa, and others

common on the black-soil prairies, and the association is con-

verted into prairie scarcely distinguishable, in vegetation at

least (PI. XVII.), from the typical prairies of central Illinois.

A blowout succession is therefore as follows:



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1. Cassia—Ambrosia— Cyclolortia (Blow-sand association)

2. Stenop/iijllus—Panicvm—Son/hasfrum } , , ,, , • .• x

.:, p J A \ Mnlowout association)
(2a. Populus—Acer)

3. Cladonia—Antennaria }

4. HeliantJrus-Hieracium )

(^^aine association)

It is in onl}^ a small proportion of the numerous blowouts
that this succession is followed to the culmination in a prairie.

In fact, only one was observed that had reached the stage num-
bered 4. Probably not more than a tenth ever reach stage 2.

Although the wind alone is instrumental in the excavation

of the blowouts, it has in general a leveling action. The sand
removed from each blowout is distributed over a larger area

than that from which it was taken, so that the tendency of the

wind action is toward a level surface of sand.

Reversion to B/n/e/i-gr(tss.

It has just been showai that in certain cases the blow-

out association may develop into one of the prairie associations.

Similarly, if for any reason the blowing of the sand ceases, recol-

onization is begun by the bunch -grass association. Naturally

the species most active in this are those members of the bunch-

grass association that are able to live on blow-sand, and partic-

ularly the sand-binder Sporoholns cryptandrus (PI. XVIIL, Fig.

2). The bunch-gra.sses themselves are among the last to ap-

pear, and their place is previously hlled by Co/iirrhoe frioiuju-

laf(f, B/iii.s (iroitKffira, Chnjxopsis voiHponiiH, and other sand-bind-

ers, or sometimes even by the Kentu cky blue-grass, Foo pra-

trjtsis. Two stages in the regenera tion of the bunch-grass are

shown in the following tables.

Even after the sand is completely fixed, the bunch-forming

grasses are much less abundant than in the normal association,

their places being filled by Chnjsopsis vinnponini, Opia/fiit luitni-

fi(s(f, Cdllirrhoe triangulafa, and R/t/ts (iroinatira.

The blowouts may be fixed without first filling up with

blow-sand, and in this case they are occupied directly by the

species of the Inmch-grass association, which extend down into

it, and ultimately occupy it completely. The stools growing



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near the crest of an active blowout are constantly being un-

dermined, and slide down with the loose sand towards the bot-

tom (PI. XVI.). They are not killed directly by this, but are

frequently seen alive near the bottom, and in this way are di-

rectly available in holding the sand.

TABLE Viri. BLOW SAND.

(Fixation just begun.)

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vegetation which it covers. Small trees are usually killed, but
larger ones will withstand burying to a considerable depth.

Frequently the only sign indicating the former position of a

blowout is a cottonwood tree (PL IX.) buried to its lower

limbs, but still alive. Walnut, butternut (PL X.), box-elder,

and hackberry have also been observed partially buried in the

same manner. The vegetation of the front of a dune which
has reached such a grove (PL XX., Fig. 2) is quite different

from that of a dune advancing in the open. The sand, shaded

and protected from evaporation, is much moister in the upper

layers, and the face of the dune is at a steeper slope. The her-

baceous vegetation is sparse, probably because of the weak
light, since in the sunnier spots the individual plants are more
numerous. The principal species are SoIaiiioH H/fjnini, Enplior-

hid heteroplujlla, Sici/os anfjulatH.s, CleiiKiti!^ Siiusi/,Part/ieiioclssi(s

qninquefolia, Menisperwitm ciumdense, Ribes iHissouritn.se, AUio-

tiia nyctaginea, Vitis riparia, Camp(innJ(i aineriraua, and Urtiras-

trum (liniricdfiiiH. The same species occur in the valleys of the

Miami loam below. Near the top various photophile forms,

such as CenchrHs fribuloides, Monarda i)inict(if((, and Asvlepins

s//riaca, appear in great abundance. The three first-mentioned

species are evidently pronounced mesophytes, as specimens

wilt very rapidly when pulled. Nevertheless, the So/aninii is

finely pubescent, while the usual mesophytic form in loamy

soil is nearly always glabrous.

To summarize the preceding statements concerning the

development of plant associations from the bunch-grass, the

action of the wind may lead to the development of the blow-

sand and the blowout associations, but either of them may
normally revert to the bunch-grass association unless the blow-

out excavation has continued until most of the sand is removed,

when a normal black-soil prairie ensues.

THE BLACK-JACK ASSOCIATION.

Throughout the central part of the state the prairie repre-

sents the most primitive plant formation. It has been shown

that in the sand region,—and the same holds true throughout



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central Illinois,—variations in local conditions may produce

minor changes in the plant-covering, but that the resulting sub-

sidiary associations revert in every case to the typical bunch-

grass prairie. The great extent of the prairie formation, the

aggressiveness vs^ith w^hich it displaces the minor associations

within it, and the resistance which it offers to the encroach-

ments of the forest, characterize it as a temporary climax type

of vegetation. That the prairie of Illinois is, however, being

rapidly displaced by the forest is no longer a matter of doubt.

Cowles ('01) has shown that for the Chicago district the cul-

minating, or climax, type of vegetation is the mesophytic forest.

While a similar mesophile association is the climax for the

central part of the state, the intermediate stages here may be

very different on account of differences in the physiography or

in the biotic environment.

In the typical Illinois prairies the encroachment of the

forest upon the prairie progresses along the drainage lines. The
prairie soil always contains a sufficient amount of humus for

the growth of many species of forest plants, and the succession

of associations is hastened by the changes in soil and topogra-

phy due to stream action. The more permanent supply of soil-

moisture along the streams is a condition not found on the

prairie, and this constitutes a weakness at the most critical

point of its defense. In this sand region none of these favora-

ble conditions is found. There is no humus in the sand, and

there is no surface drainage, and consequently no erosion, no

base-leveling, and no increased water supply,—all of which in

other places so facilitate the extension of the forest.

The hrst tree-growth that invades the sand prairies is a

xerophytic association composed mainly of the black-jack oak,

Quercus manjlandica, and usually known as black-jack timber

(PI. XXL, Fig.l). The almost complete absence of water-

courses prevents its extension in long belts paralleling streams,

and, instead, it is found in large masses, w^ith more or less

rounded outlines, on the larger sand deposits, or in narrow
strips following the dunes. It is limited entirely to the sand,

never invading the more fertile fields of Miami loam, nor en-



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croaching upon the bottoms of the Illinois River. Besides the
))lack^jack oak, which constitutes, by rough estimate, fifty per-

cent of the forest, there is about thirty-five percent of black
oak, Qiicrcna rc/nf/Ha, and fifteen percent of hickory, Hicoria

liiicrontrpa. These three are the only arborescent species of the
black-jack timber, and in some places but one of them [QHercii.s

iif((ri//(n/(/ic(f) is present. The trees seldom exceed afoot in di-

ameter, and they are geherally very crooked, gnarly, and full

of dead branches. The hickory is nearly always sterile, only
the very largest trees producing fruit. The underbrush con-

sists mainly of young trees of hickory and the two oaks,

with occasional clumps of B/ms (iroindficd. Other shrubby
species of less prominence occur, such as Antorjilut aiHesceHs and
Sali.r frisfis. Since the ecology of the black-jack association.

at least during its early stages, differs from that of the original

bunch-grass association only in the smaller amount of light re-

ceived by its plants, the herbaceous and shrubby flora of the

two are very similar. Of the species observed on the prairie,

all but thirteen were also found in the black-jack forest. These
were Sparfina ci/Hosuroides, Sf/ptt sparfea, (\i/((iiH>ri/f(/ lomjifolid,

SfenopJnilhts c<(piU<ii-}s, Fopnliis (Jc/foidrs, Acer Neynndo, (U'isfa-

teUii Jauif'S/l, Fopuhis dilaftifa, Cileditsia fr'uiciDifhos, Lesquerella

sp((thuhd(i, Acerates viridijiora, HierdciiuH loHjiijiilinn, and Equi-

sefiuH robustuni. This number would probably be reduced by
extended observation. The principal distinction between the

two floras is the poorer quantitative development of the bunch-

grasses in the black-jack association, and a corresponding in-

crease in the representation of the other species. In the edge

of the woods, which differs the least from the prairie both in

age and in ecology, the bunch-grasses are well developed, and
the majority of the species may be found. In the older and
more densely shaded parts the bunch-forming species are Faii-

ir/iii/ c<)(jii<diiin, TricHspis seslcrioides^ Eragrosf/'s frlr/todes, Pdspa-

luni sef((ceiim, and Androjxtf/on Jiircaf/is, and the bunches are

few and widely scattered. This difference in development in

the two formations is probably due entirely to the amount of

light. The remainder of the flora is characterized by the great-



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er proportion of CaUirrhoe frianguUda and Cracca vlrginiana.

The latter is extremely abundant, and grows in dense circular

patches ten feet or more in diameter. CaUirrlioe friangiiJata is

likewise abundant, and, although not forming dense patches

like Cracca, displays its showy purple flowers in profusion, pro-

ducing an effect rivaled only by the yellow beds of Cassia

chamwcrisfa on the prairies. Other prominent members of the

flora are Opuntia hionifusa, AUionia nyciaginea, Cassia clianue-

crista, Froelichia campestris, Meihomia sessilifolia, Helianthus

occidenfalis, and Helianthemum majus, all of which are found also

on the prairies. There are, how^ever, a number of species which

apparently do not occur beyond the forest. Most important

among these are the following:

Pteridium aquilinum Anychia canadensis

Polygonum cristatum Erysiinum arkansamnn

Taliniim rugospermum. Cassia nictitans

Meihomia. nudiiioTa Hypericum spluerocarpum

Meihomia paniculata Lechea villosa.

Ipomcea pandurata Pentstemon hirsutus

Nahalus asper Galium pilosum

Artemisia caudata Helianthus illinoensis

The structure of the vegetation of the black-jack association

is remarkably uniform, the only variations being due to differ-

ences in the light intensity. In natural clearings there is a

preponderance of Cracca virginiana, Helianthus occidentalis, and

Rhus aroutatica, while a few species of the bunch-grass associa-

tion, such as Cassia chamwcrisfa, Ambrosia psilosfachga,Si'n.d Mo-

narda punctata, may be found with them. In the clearings

Crotonopsis linearis is the prevailing form, associated with a

number of other species.

Tables X. to XII. give counts in the black-jack association.

A tension zone, with intermediate ecological characters and

a mixture of species is not developed between the black-jack

association and the prairie. Its absence is an indication of the

relatively slight ecological differences between the earlier

stages of the black-jack and the mature prairie, but with the

gradual development of the forest great changes occur. The



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soil is still a pure sand, but since it is protected by the trees

from the wind and from the light and heat of the sun, it does
not dry out so rapidly. For the same reasons the atmospheric
humidity is conserved, and the oxidization of organic matter

TABLE X. BLACK-JACK ASSOCIATION.



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verted into a thin layer of leaf-mold. The deeper roots of the

trees penetrate to, and draw a portion of their inorganic food

from, the lower strata of sand, and much of this is returned to

the soil in the dead leaves, thus restoring to the upper layers

of the sand some of the food matter leached out by years of

rainfall.

TABLE Xr. CLEARING IN BLACK-JACK ASSOCIATION.

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These changes go on veiy slowly. There are now areas of

hlack-jack covering several square miles with scarcely a trace

of leaf-mold. This is illustrated especially by the black-jack

timber south of Havana between Bath and Kilbourne, where,

in a belt five miles wide, there is nothing but pure sand without

any covering of humus. In the country east of Havana, where
the sand is mostly confined to long wooded dunes, and near the

Illinois Eiver, the formation of the soil appears to be more rapid.

Some of the wooded ridges back from the river have a coating

of leaf-mold only half an inch to an inch in thickness, and the

cacti still growing in it show that it has been but a few years

since its formation.

With the first traces of leaf-mold such semi-xerophytic

plants as Aqitifegia canadensis^ Trio.sfeatn aiiraut/arHiu, Sileue

sfcllata, Anemone rh(jinlana, and Ayriinoniu nioUls begin to ap-

pear, together with many other species common to most up-

land-wood associations, although many of the sand-loving xero-

phytes, such as CalJirrlioe triangnlata, Rhus aroinafica, and Les-

peih'za eapifata, still persist. As the soil increases in depth

more characteristic mesophytes appear, including Vaxjnera

racentosa, Vagnera sfef/afa, (rennt eanadense, Ase/epias ejvffafa,

and Eupatorlinn ageratoides. Parfhenocissns qtdnquefo/ia be-

comes very abundant, climbing up most of the trees, and trail-

ing prostrate on the sand, covering it with a dense mat. The

arborescent fiora is still unchanged ; the two oaks and the

hickory constitute nearly all of the forest, and the only addi-

tions are small scattering trees of Cerei.s canadensis, Morns ru-

bra, and Cehis occidenfa/is.

None of the black-jack forests observed has as yet passed

beyond this semi-mesophytic stage except in a narrow belt

along the Illinois River (PL XXL, Fig. 2), where plants from

the neighboring mesophytic and hydrophytic forests may spread

more quickly over the sand ridges. In such places the forests

of the wooded dunes contain but a small proportion of black-

jack oak, its place being taken by bur-oak (Qnercus macrocarpa)

and white oak (QnercHs a/ha). The leaf-mold is deep, and the



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herbaceous flora resembles that of the most mesophytic of our

upland woods.

Some Adaptations of the Plants to the Environment.

The plants of the sand region are nearly all xerophytes,

and as such show many xerophytic adaptations for the reduc-

tion of transpiration. Some of the more important of these

are given below, and illustrative plants mentioned.

1. Reduction of the Leaf Smface.—Opuntia humifusa, the

cactus or prickly pear so common throughout the region, is the

best example. The leaves are no longer functional, and the

green succulent stem is divided into flat obovate joints which

transpire very slowly.

2. Thick or Succulent Leaves.— Talinuin rugospermam has a

basal cluster of cylindrical succulent leaves one to two inches

long. Physostegia virginiana when growing on the sand prairies

has blunt-toothed leaves, slightly folded along the midrib, and

greatly thickened. The difference between this leathery-leaved

xerophytic form and the thin-leaved mesophyte abundant

along ditches and sloughs elsewhere in the state, is very strik-

ing.

3. Narrow or Linear Leaves.—A reduction of the transpir-

ing surface by linear leaves occurs in many species, among
which 'eive Polygonum tenue,Polygala verticillata, Petalostemon can-

(lidus and P. purpureus, Phlox bifida, and lonactis linariifolius.

4. A Protective Covering of Hairs or Scales.—This is one of

the commonest adaptations for preventing excessive transpira-

tion, and is found on a great many of the species. Froelichia

campestris is softly gray-hairy throughout; Ainorpha canescens,

Cracca virginiana, and Chrysopsis ccDnporiun are densely hairy,

giving them a gray appearance; and Croton glandulosus has a

thin covering of stellate hairs. The linear leaves of Crotonopsis

linearis are silvery with stellate hairs, and in Lesqaerella spatJiu-

lata there is a basal rosette of spatulate leaves silvery with stel-

late pubescence. The glandular hairs with which the stem of

Cristatella Jamesii is covered, hold the sand blown against it

by the wind, so that the plants become encased in a veritable



i7y

armor, which maj' be of some use in reducing transpiration.

Man}^ other species also have hairy leaves or stems. In fact,

such a protective covering is so common that the landscape

has not the ordinary green color, but is distinctly gray in

general tone.

5. Involute or Coiidiq)/icatp Leaves.—This adaptation is

shown by many of the grasses.

6. Position of the Leaves.—In Helianthas occidental is the

thick, rough basal leaves stand with their blades nearly vertical.

Prostrate plants, like MoUikjo verticillata and Eaphorhia (rei/f^ri,

may also be protected against excessive transpiration by their

position.

As the surface of the sand dries out quickly after rains,

the tirst few inches contain very little water, and the roots of

the plants must penetrate through this dry upper layer into the

moist sand below. Many species accordingly have straight

tap-roots, which give off few lateral branches or none at all for

the first six to twelve inches. Some of the plants of this habit

are Fo/ijgonuui tenue, Ci/clolonui atriplicifoliuni (PI. XIX., Fig. 1),

Froelichia campestris., Crlstatella Jantesii, Croton ylandnlosiis,

Euphortjia Gf'ueri. and (Enothera rhonibipetala. Others have

thickened roots or rootstocks which serve for water storage,

Taliinnn nvjospernitnn, CeanotJias americanus, and Ipomwa pan-

darata being examples.

The sand-binding habit is best developed on the prairies,

where the action of the wind is most vigorous. Chief among
the sand-binders are the bunch-grasses (PL XIV., Fig. 2; XVIIl.,

Fig. 1 ), which protect the sand from the wind by their dense

tufts of culms and basal leaves, and at the same time bind it

with their rootstocks and fibrous roots. If the bunches are far

apart, so that the sand is exposed between them, they frequent-

ly become raised several inches above the general level, hav-

ing held the sand beneath them while that not so protected

has been blown away. Species without sand-binding adapta-

tions are usually associated with the bunch-grasses and pro-

tected bv them. This condition is also found in the bunch-



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grass on the sand-hills of Nebraska (Pound and Clements, '00,

p. 353).

Next in importance as sand-binders are certain species

which grow in close hemispherical or flattened bunches, and

hold the sand in the same manner as the bunch-grasses. RJias

aroniatica (PI. XIX.) grows in dense thickets, sometimes twen-

ty feet in diameter, its long branching roots descending to a

depth of six feet or more, and effectually resisting the move-

ment of the sand. Cracca vlrglnica, Lithospermuni linearifolium,

Salix tristis, Chri/sopsis caniponnn, and especially Amorpha
canescens, have the same habit as RIiuh, but on account of their

smaller size are less effectual as sand-binders.

Sporobolus cryptandriis, a.nd Commellna vlrglnica have stems

prostrate and rooting at the nodes, and both are quite effectual

sand-binders, although the latter species is not frequent, and

neither reaches a large size. Sporoholus is quite abundant on

level blow-sand, where it builds up mounds from four to eight

inches high (PI. XVIEL, Fig. 2). It is one of the principal

species concerned in fixing blow-sand and preparing it for the

re-establishment of the bunch-grass association. Commellna

also builds up small mounds and ridges of sand.

A third type of sand-binders is composed of mat plants,

which have prostrate stems radiating from a central root.

Euphorbia Geyerl is common on blow-sand, where it grows in

circular mats from six inches to two feet in diameter. It thus

effectually holds the sand beneath it, and is frequently seen on

a flat mound an inch of two high, closely similar in shape to

the plant itself. Mollago vertlclUata, frequently naturalized on

blow-sand and in the bunch-grass, has the same habit. Opuntla

hiimlfusa may be classed in the same group. It forms dense

mats two to five feet in diameter, and effectually holds the

sand. The center of the mats, however, are frequently buried,

Acerates olrldljiora, usually erect in a richer soil, is prostrate

when growing on blow-sand, and builds up small mounds.

Intermediate between prostrate forms like the last and
bunch-forming species like Chrysopsls are such plants as Soll-

dago mlssou}'lmsls, dbXidi Calllrhoe trlangulata. These have sev-



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eral stems in a cluster ascending from a common center, and
while of little importance in holding the sand they frequently

collect considerable quantities about their bases.

No attempts have been made toward controlling the move-
ment of the sand and rendering it available for agricultural

purposes, but much could be accomplished in that direction.

Hedges have been planted in some places, and thickets of plum-

trees have been allowed to grow between cultivated fields and
sand-hills. The Lombardy poplar (PI. XX., Fig.l) might be used

with good results, as it thrives on the sand and spreads rapidly

by its long underground roots.

List of the Plants Observed.*

POLYPODIACE.TI.

Pteridiwni aquilinum (L. ) Kuhn.

Equisetacej^.

Equisetum arvense L.

Equiseturn rohustum A. Br.

GRAMINEiE.
"

Aiidropogon scoparius Michx.

Andropogon furcatus Muhl.

Sorghastrum avenaceum (Michx.) Nash.

Paspahim setaceum Michx.

Syntherisma Miformis (L.) Nash.

Panicuni cognatum Schultes.

Panicum virgatum L.

Panicum si).f

Ghcetochloa viridis (L. ) Scribn.

CencliTiis trihuloides L.

* Only those species of spermatophytes and pteridophytes which grow on the

sand prairies or in the black-jack forest proper, without a covering of leaf-mold, have

been included in this list. Some additional species have been reported by Tatterson

('76) and McDonald ('00). The nomenclature followed is essentially that of Britton's

Manual.

t Abundant on the bunch-grass prairies and of sparing occurrence in the black-

Jack; conspicuous and well marked by the dense tufts with the crowded, almost fas-

tigiate, ascending leaves. The primary panicle fruits in July, and the spikelets have

nearly all fallen off when the secondary panicles appear, in the middle of August.

The specific identity of the plant is in douljt.



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Aristida tuberculosa Nutt.

Stipa spartea Trin.

Sporoholus cryptandrus (Torr.) Gray.

Calamovilfa longifolia (Hook.) Hack.

Spartina cynosuroides (L.) Willd.

Bouteloua hirsuta Lag.

Atheropogon curtipendtdus (Michx.) Fourn.

Tricuspis seslerioides (Michx.) Torr.

Eragrostis pectinacea (Michx.) Steud.

Eragrostis trichodes (Nutt.) Nash

Poa pratensis L.

Cyperace^.

Cyperus Schweinitzii Torr.

Cyperus Bushii Britton.

Cyperus Micuhnis Vahl.

Stenophyllus capillaris (L.) Britton.

Carex gravida Bailey.

OOMMELINACE^.

Coninielina virginica L.

Tradescantia virginiana L.

CONVALLARIACE^.

Salomonia commutata (R. & S.) Britton.

Smilace^.

Smilax hispida Muhl.

Salicace^

Populus deltoides Marsh.

Popidxbs dilatata Ait.

Salix tristis Ait.

JUGLANDACE^.

Juglans nigra L.

Hicoria microcarpa (Nutt.) Britton.

Fagace^.

Qiiercus velutina Lam.
Quercus marylandica Muench.

Ulmace^.

Celtis occidentalis L.



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MORACE^..

Morus ruhra L.

Urticacej,.

Ui'ticastrum divarieatum (L.) Kuiitze.

PolygonACEji;.

Polygonum emerstim (Michx.) Britten.

Polygonum tenue Michx.

Polygonum, cristatum Engelm. & Gray.

Chenopodiace.t;.

Chenopodium album L.

Cycloloma atriplicifolium (Sprerig.) Coulter.

Amaranthace.t;.

Fi'oelichia campestrls Small.

Nyctaginace.e.

Allionia nyctaginea Michx.

Aizoace.e.

Mollugo verticillata L.

PORTULACACE.E.

Talinum rugospermuin Holz.

CARYOPHYLLACEiE

.

Silene stellata (L.) Ait.

Sllene antiri'hina L.

Anychia canadensis (L.) B. 8. P.

Ranunculace^.

Anemone cylindrica Gray.

Clematis Simsii Sweet.

MENISPERMACE.f;.

Menispermum canadense L.

Laurace^.

Benzoin Benzoin (L. ) Coulter.

Cruciper.e.

Lesquerella spathulata Rydb.

Arabis kevigata (Muhl.) Poir.

Erysimufn arkansanum. Nutt.



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Oapparidace^.

Cristatella Janiesii T. & G.

Polanisia graveolens Raf.

Grossulariacej?.

Rihes missouTiense Nutt.

Rosacea.

Fragaria virginiana Grayana (Vilm.) Rydb.

Potentilla canadensis L.

Rosa humilis Marsh.

O^SALPINIACE^..

Cassia nictitans L.

Cassia chamcecrista L.

Gleditsia tviacanthos L.

Papilionace^..

Baptisia hracteata Ell.

Amorpha canescens Pursh.

Fetalostemon candidus (Willd.) Michx.

Petalostemon purpureus (Vent.) Rydb.

Cracca virginiana L.

Meihomia nud.iiloTa (L.) Kuntze.

Meilomia sessilifoUa (Torr.) Kuntze.

Meihomia paniculata (L.) Kuntze.

Meihomia canadensis (L. ) Kuntze.

Lespedeza virginica (L. ) Britton.

Lespedeza capitata Michx.

Falcata comosa (L.) Kuntze.

Strophostyles helvola (L.) Britton.

Strophostyles umhellata (Muhl.) Britton.

Oxalidacete.

Oxalis violacea L.

RUTAOE^.

Xanthoxyluni amei'icamvm Mill.

POLYGALACE^.

Polygala verticillata L.



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EUPHORBIACE.E.

Croton glandulosus L.

Crotonopsis linearis Michx.
EuphorMa Geyeri Engelm. & Gray.
Euphorhia corollata L.

EupJiorhia heterophylla L.

Anacardiace.e.

Mhus aromatica Ait.

Rhus radicans L,

Celastrace^.

Celastvus scandens L.

ACERACE.E.

Acer Negundo L.

Rhamnacej^.

Ceanothus americanus L,

VlTACE^.

Yitis vulpina L.

Malvace^.

Callirrhoe triangulata (Leavenw.) Gray.

Hypericace.e.

Hypericum sphierocarpum Michx.

OlSTACE.E.

Helianthemum majus (L. ) B. 8. P.

LecJiea villosa Ell.

(Jactace.-e.

Opuntia hiimlfusa Raf.

Lythrace.e.

Parsonsia petiolata (L.) Rusby.

Onagrace.e.

Ortagra hiennis (L.) Scop.

CE)iothera laciniata Hill.

(Enothera rhoinbipetala Nutt.

Gnura hlennis L.



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TJmbellifer^.

Sanlcula canadensis L.

Thaspium trifoliatum aureum (Natt.) Britton.

Polytmnia Nuttallii DO.

Apocynack.^.

Apocyiiuni caniiahinum L.

ASCLEPIADACE^.

Asclepias tuherosa L.

Asclepias SulUvantii Engelm.

Asclepias amplexicauUs J. E. Smith.

Asclepias syriaca L.

Asclepias verticlllata L.

Acerates viridiHora (Raf. ) Eaton.

(JONVOLVDLACE^..

Iponima pandwrata (L. ) Meyer.

POLEMONIACE^..

Phlox hiiida Beck.

BORAGINACE.E.

Lappula vi?'glniana (L.) Greene.

Lithospermum Gmelini (Michx.) A. S. Hitchcock.

Lithosperiwum linear Ifolium, Goldie.

Onosmod'mm. carollnianum (Lam.) DC.

Verbenace^..

Verbena strlcta Vent.

Verhena hracteosa, Michx.

Labiat.e.

Teucrluni canadense L.

Prunella vulgaris L.

Physostegia, mrglniana (L. ) Benth.

Monarda punctata L.

Blephilia ciliata (L.) Raf.

Hedeoma pulegloldes (L.) Pers.

Koellia Hexuosa (Walt.) MacM.
Koellia pilosa (Nutt.) Britton.

S0LANACE.E.

Physalis mrginiana Mill.



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Physails heterophylla Nees.

Solanum nigrum L.

Solanum carollneyise L.

SCROPHULARIACE.?^,.

Verhascum T/iapsus L.

Scrophularla marylandlca L.

Pentstemon hlrsmtus (L.) Willd.

Pedicularls canadensis L.

AcANTHACE.lv.

Ruellia ciliosa Pursh.

Phrymace.t:.

Phrynia leptostachya. L.

RUBIACEJ^..

Diodin teres Walt.

Galium pilosum Ait,

Galium circn^zans Michx.

CUCURBITACE.E.

Sicyos angulatus L.

Campanulace.e.

Campanula americana L.

Specularia perfoliata (L. ) A. DO.
Lobelia spicata Lam.
Lobelia leptostachys A. DO.
Lohelia inilata L.

OlCHORIACE.'E.

Lactuca canadensis L.

Hieraciuin longipilum Torr.

Nahalus asper (Michx.) T. & G.

Ambrosiace.e.

Am,hrosia arteniisiuifolia L.

Ambrosia psilostachya DO.

OOMPOSITiE.

Eupatorium, purpureum L.

Eupatorium, serotinum Michx.

Kuhnia eupatorioides L,



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Kuhnla glutinosa Ell.

Lacinaria scariosa (L.) Hill.

Chrysopsh camporurn Greene.

Solidago ulmlfolia Muhl.

Solidago missouriensis Niitt.

Solidago nemoralis Ait.

Solidago rigida L.

Euthaniio, caroliniana (L.) Greene.

Aster' ericoides L.

Leptilon cariadense (L.) Britton.

lonactis linariifolius (L. ) Greene.

Antennaria sp.

Anaphalis marqaritacea (L. ) Benth. ct Hook.

Gnaphalium ohtu sifolium L.

Heliopsis scahra Dunal.

Rudheckia triloha L.

Rudheckia kirta L.

Ratihida pinnata (Vent. ) Barnh.

Helianthus SGahevrimus Ell.

Helianthus occidentalis Riddell.

Helianthus illinoensis Gleason*.

*Helianthus illinoensis.—Erect, six to ten dm. high, from a long running root-

stock. Stem simple, slightly angled, densely villous below, pubescent above. Leaves
six to eight pairs, strictly opposite, slightly scabrous above, softly pubescent beneath
and villous on the veins, obtuse; the lowest four or five pairs oblong-lanceolate to

ovate-lanceolate, three-nerved, entire, ten to fifteen cm. long, tapering at the base

into a villous winged petiole equaling or but little shorter than the leaves; the upper
two or three pairs much smaller or bractlike, petiole, short or none. Lower inter-

nodes five to eight cm. in length, or the two lowest pairs of leaves approximate, upper
internodes much longer. Inflorescence of one to seven heads; peduncles three to ten

cm. long; involucre broadly campanulate or hemispherical, eight mm. high; scales

lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate. Disk flowers yellow, rays about thirteen, two to three
cm. long, bright yellow, achenes minutely pubescent. Flowers in August.

On the sand dunes along the Illinois river near Havana, where it is common in

the black-jack oak woods, especially along the edges and in the more open and sunny
places. Material was collected in 1903 and 1904, and the type, collected on August 17,

1904, is in the herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Helianthus illinoensis is evidently closely related to Helianthus occidentalis Riddell,

which it resembles in the reduction in size of the upper leaves. It is at once distin-

guished from the latter species by the villous pubescence and the greater length of

the lower internodes. The two are sometimes associated in the field, but in general
appearance they are entirely distinct. Helianthus occidentalis has broad, scabrous.



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Helianih\iH sfnimosus L.

Coreopsis pahitafa Niitt.

Achillea Milhfoliuni L.

Artemisia caudata Michx.

Mesarhiiia (dripiidfolia ( L. ) Kuf.

Phytogeographical Relationships of the Flora.

A casual inspection of the preceding list of species, 188 in

nnmber, will show the presence in the sand vegetation of nu-

merous plants of western distribution. Some of these occur in

Illinois onl}' in the sand regions, so far as known, and others

are of limited range in various parts of the state. In order to

study more carefully' this western relationship the flora has been

divided into two groups, including, first, those species living

in the prairie formation, and, second, those found only in the

black-jack forest. It is believed that this separation will dis-

tinguish the older and more primitive flora, inhabiting the old-

er plant-formation, from the younger and more recent flora,

occupying the younger formation, and doubtless derived to a

large extent from the vegetation of the surrounding woodlands

and prairies. It has been mentioned that nearly all the species

of the sand prairie grow also in the black-jack, and that their

presence there is probably due frequently to persistence through

the changed ecological conditions. It is also evident that many
of the more recent species have penetrated into the bunch-

grass prairies and are now mingled with the endemic element

there. A third and minor group of five species has not been

included in this division, since its members occur only on the

front of dunes which have invaded natural groves on the Miami
loam, and are undoubtedly derived directly from the vegetation

of that soil. These are C/etttafis Sijiisii. Kiii>liorJ)i(i.Jicier(>pJnj]i(i.

iSicyos aiKjuhdas, Solainnu nifjnnn. and Vrficdsti-aiH dicarivaftiiu.

The vegetation of Illinois, with the possible exception of

the extreme southern part, has been developed since the close

of the glacial period. Postglacial migration into the state has

light green, short-petioled leaves which are nearly erect in a basal cluster, while in

Helianthiis illiiioen.vs they are darker green, more or le?s spreading and scattered on

the stem.

—

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proceeded from three principal centers or zones: the Austro-

riparian zone or Coastal plain, a U-shaped area lying along the

Atlantic and (lulf coasts and the lower Mississippi valley;

a southeastern center lying within the U, and a southwestern

one lying to the west of it. The last two centers have furnished

most of the plants of the sand region and, indeed, of Illinois as

a whole, and the floral elements from them will be spoken of

as the Atlantic and the Sonoran elements respectively. A
northern extension of the Sonoran element has occupied the

inland territory designated by Engler as the Prairie province,

and an eastern arm of this province reaches across northern

Illinois into Indiana. This is shown by Pound and Clements on

their map of the Prairie province ('98, '00). This arm is almost

surrounded on the north, east, and south by the Atlantic prov-

ince, and it is also intersected along the streams by broad or

narrow strips of woodland, representing the same province.

When we consider also the fact that in Illinois the forests are

climatic and the prairies edaphic, it is not surprising that the

Sonoran floral element in the Illinois prairies is obscured by
the presence of a large number of species of the Atlantic ele-

ment derived from the adjacent forests.

Of the 117 species growing on the prairie formation of the

sand region 34, or 29 percent, are of typically western range,

that is, from Illinois west across Nebraska and thence south in-

to Texas, a distribution in many cases practically coincident

with the Prairie province and clearly indicative of their Sono-
ran origin. These are as follows:

*Equisetum robustmn
Stlpa spartea

* Calamovilfa Jong ifolia

* Bovteloua liirsuta

*Eragrostis trichodes

* Cyperus Schioeinitzii

*Cyperus Bushii
Carex gravida

* Cycloloma atripUcifolium

*Froeliehia (ximpestris

Pe talostemon purpureus

*Euphorhia Geyeri

*Callirrhoe triangulata
* Ojnrntia humifusa,
* (Enothera rhomhipetala

Asclepias Sullivantii

Lith osperrmim Omelini

Llthospermum linearifolium,

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*AUionia jiyrta(/iiiea *Amhrofila pxilostaduja
Anemone cylindrira Hieracunu longipilum
*Lesquerella spathiiJata *Knhnia givtinosa
* Crista fella JameHii *C/ir(/sopsif< rainponnii

*Polanisia graveolens Solidago iiuxxoKi'ienslx

Bapt'fsia hracteata HeVianthiiH .scahcrri tim.s

Amorpha canesoens Coreopsif; palmata

This group in the prairie formation is obscured b}^ the

presence of 65 species, or 56 percent, of eastern distribution,

to be regarded as derivatives of the Atlantic floral element; and
the remaining 18 species, or 15 percent, include 9 of transcon-

tinental distribution, 4 introduced species, S [^'Aristi(l<(fnher-

culosd and ^Sporobohts crjjpiandrus) with a range along the

coast of the Atlantic and Great Lakes and locally in the interior,

and 8 whose range is local or unknown, namely, '''PanicHtH sp.,

Phlojr bifida, and Antemiaria sp.

The importance of the Sonoran element can be shown to

better advantage by excluding all those species which occur

commonly in other associations in the state, limiting the list to

the plants most characteristic of the sand region. Of the 28

species thus selected, 1 is local, 2 range along the coast and the

Great Lakes, 6 are eastern or southeastern, and 19, or 68 per-

cent, are western or southwestern. In the preceding list and

in the paragraph following it, 22 of these species are marked
with an asterisk. The 6 eastern species included are

Panirum cognatuin Polygonum tenue

Cyperus Micvlnii.H Monarda punctata

Salij: tristis lonartis UnarlifoHxs

The 66 species of the sand region which are found only in

the black-jack association include 1 of local distribution, Heli-

afttluis iUinoensis] 1 introduced species, C/Kf^fochloa riridi.s; 9 of

western distribution; and 55 of eastern and southeastern range,

indicating plainly the eastern relationships of the flora, and

the floral similarity of the black-jack to the other forests of

central Illinois. Of these 55, all but one, Foh/r/onum cristation,

occur also in other plant associations within the state, while of



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the 9 western species, three, starred in the following list, are

practically confined to the sand region.

Atherpogon curtipenduUif< Polytamia Nutfallii

*Talinum rugosper/num Nahalus asper
* Erysimum arkansamim. Ratibida pinnata

Rihes missouriense *Artemisia caudata

PetaJostemon candidus

A comparison of the vegetation of the Illinois River valley

sand region with that of the dunes along Lake Michigan is of

interest on account of the short distance between the two re-

gions. Excepting the temperature, the difference in the eco-

logical conditions is scarcely sufficient to cause a wide varia-

tion in the floras. The dunes of Lake Michigan, however, are

essentially a beach formation, and the vegetation as described

by Cowles ('99) show^s but slight relationships with the western

prairies. On the beach proper only eight species occur which
are common to the two dune areas, and three of these, Artemi-

sia caudata, Calamovilfa longifolia, and Lithospennum Gmelini,

are western in their range. The flora of the shifting dunes
shows scarcely more similarity. In the established dunes the

resemblances are stronger. Six species of the basswood dunes
and nearly all those of the oak dunes are found also in the

inland region, and Cowles's list includes Quercus velutina, Rhus
aromatica, Cracca Virginia na, Oyperus Schweinitzii, Opuntia humi-

fiisa, Oenothera rhomhipetala, Monarda punctata, and other spe-

cies abundant on the sand along the Illinois River. In both
localities these plants belong principally to the derived element;
and as the adjacent forests are of the same type in both regions

it is to be expected that the same species would be able to

adapt themselves to the sand. It is in the endemic element
that the greatest contrast lies. The dunes of Lake Michigan
have no Cristate]la, Eragrostis tric.hodes, Bouteloua, Ambrosia
psilostachya, Eroelicliia, Euphorhia Geyeri, Callirrhoe, or Chry-
sopsis, all characteristic of the inland region; while the latter

lacks Cakile americana, Corispermum hyssopifolium, Euphorhia
polygonifolia, Lathyrus maritimus, Am.mophila arenaria, and



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PnniHs piiiiiilii. representing the endemic element along the

lake.

A comparison with the flora of the sand-hills of Nebraska,
on the other hand, shows some striking similarities. Rydberg
('95) lists 35 species as characteristic of the sand-hill region,

and of these, 15, or nearly one half, grow also in the central-

Illinois sand region, and this includes a number of the most
al)undant species. Of the 188 species enumerated in this paper,

75. or 40 percent, are included also in Rydberg's list.

It is evident from the preceding paragraphs that as a whole
the flora is essentially western in its relationships. Its position

within the Prairie province, as defined by Pound and Clements,

can not be questioned, and the region may well be regarded as

an isolated portion of the sand-hill division of the Prairie prov-

ince, formed under peculiar conditions, but closely resembling

the main body in its ecology and vegetation. The species found

only in the black-jack oak forest are almost entirely eastern in

their distribution, and have usually a wide range through the

state in different plant associations.

Of especial interest from a phytogeographical standpoint

are Crisfafplfa Jauicsii and Lesquerelht spaflnildfa. This is

the first report of their occurrence in Illinois, and, so far

as known, at any station east of central Nebraska. The form-

er ranges through the sand-hill region from Nebraska south

into Texas, and according to Britton's Manual into Louisiana.

In Nebraska it lives in almost precisely the same conditions as

in this state; that is, in the bottoms of blowouts, where there

is a comparatively rapid shifting of the sand In 1903 it was

found in but a single blowout near Havana, and the total num-
ber of individuals was probably less than five hundred. In 1904

it had spread to two other blowouts in the same field, and it

was also found in great profusion in a large blowout about

ten miles northeast of Havana. Lesquerella ^pafhuJata, de-

scribed in 1896 from the Black Hills, ranges, according to

Britton, from Nebraska to Montana and the Northwest Terri-

tory. Rydberg's original plants ( '96 i grew on dry hilltops, a

habitat paralleled by its growth in Illinois in the bunch-grass



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association on some of the higliest dunes of the region. It is

not mentioned by Pound and Clements in the "Phytogeography

of Nebraska." It was collected in Illinois in but one station,

northeast of Havana, near the second station for Gristatella.



Part III. Zooloyiral Studies in the Sand Eeyions of the Illi-

nois (I lid Mississippi Birer ]7(/lej/s. By Charles A. Hart.

General Features.

As a preliminaiT to the zoological discussion, the general

topography of the principal sand areas, given in Part I. of these

studies, may be briefly summarized. These areas occur on the

glacial flood-plain of the broad central basin of the lower Illi-

nois valley between Peoria and Meredosia,, and of the upper

Mississippi from near Burlington, Iowa, to Savanna, 111., aggre-

gating approximately 280 square miles in the Illinois valley

alone; and considerable tracts of loose wind-blown surface sand,

or ''blow-sand" (PI. X.-XV., XIX.), occur in both these areas,

which in the Illinois basin are scattered in broad undulating

tracts of dune formations, or in ridges running lengthwise of

the valley, and reaching a maximum height of about one hun-

dred feet.

In Part 11. Mr. Gleason has quite fully discussed the present

condition of the surface of these areas in the Illinois valley and

the effects of wind action in their intimate relation to the plant

covering, and a knowledge of these conditions is necessary to an

understanding of the sand fauna, which, of course, consists

largely of insects and their near relatives.

The areas of nearly pure sand are the only ones having a dis-

tinctly different flora and fauna from that of the ordinary Illi-

nois prairie. They are most extensively developed upon the

western half of the glacial flood-plain—the half next the present

river bottom. Here there is little or no surface drainage, the

rainfall being quickly absorbed. After a rain the sand soon

dries perfectly at the surface, both in winter and summer, thus

approximating the conditions of an arid region notwithstand-

ing the greater precipitation. The striking affinities of its

fauna and flora with those of the arid West are evidence of this.

Nevertheless, as is more or less the case even in arid lands, the
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deeper sands are always moist,—in the Illinois valley only a

few inches below the dry surface layer.

Much of the blow-sand is a remnant of the greater areas

which existed Ijefore vegetation invaded these sands. There

is little doubt, however, that attempts on the part of man to

cultivate or pasture the vegetation-covered sand land have in

many cases resulted disastrously and renewed the drifting ac-

tion, the destruction of the plant-cover giving the wind a

chance to cut in and set the sand in motion again, starting, as

it were, an open sore on the face of nature. For this reason

large tracts of such land have never been disturbed, and still

retain their original flora and fauna; and other fields, after at-

tempts at cultivation, have been allowed to go to waste. The
processes for the redemption of sandy land now being devised

by the United States government should be utilized here, at

least to keep this sand where it is and prevent its invasion of

cultivable ground. These wind excavations are called blow-

outs (PI. VIII., IX.), and if large enough they soon become the

windward side of an advancing dune (PI. XI.). Usually they

are rounded pits, sometimes large enough to contain a house,

the shifting slopes barren of vegetation, and the marginal veg-

etation being undermined and swept away. When their depth

becomes excessive, moisture at the bottom checks the wind
action at this point, and a flora and fauna approximating
the ordinary prairie type takes possession of this part of the

blowout. The sand from blowouts may pile up in a barren

dune or ridge, over the crest of which it drifts in a fine mist

with every wind, thus steadily advancing and burying the small-

er trees and bushes in its path (PL X.; XII., Fig. 2); or it may
scatter out over comparatively level areas (PI. XIII.). Clumps
of trees or small groves, by checking the wind and thus favor-

ing the deposition of sand, occasion the formation of an active

dune surrounding them on their windward side, which at least

partially submerges them in the course of time (PI. XX., Fig. 2).

At the earliest opportunity, however, a growth of vegeta-

tion, scanty at first, tries to take possession of all blow-sand
areas, thus tending to stay the drifting and to fix the surface



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as it is. (PI. XIII.; XIV., Fig. 1; XV.) Frequently a later stage

of this evolution is the growth of large tracts of a scrubby

black-jack forest (PI. VIII.; XXL, Fig. 1.), and this, in turn, by

the gradual formation of leaf-mold, approaches the character

of the ordinary Illinois forest. Forests of the latter class (PI.

XXL, Fig. 2) are especially noticeable on the fixed dune ridges

which lie along the edge of the sand plain, next the river or its

bottom-lands, such as the ridge extending through the city of

Havana. The areas of blow-sand and black-jack are about equal,

that of the final stage comparatively small.

A very different and characteristic sand fauna and tiora

may be found upon the constantly moist strip of sand which
usually occurs along the present stream valleys at the margin

of the sand plain, twenty to forty feet below its surface level,

not only upon the present shores (PI. XXIII. ), but also along

the line where the absorbed rainfall of the sand plain drains

out upon the river bottoms at the foot of the present low mar-

ginal bluff.

The Localities Visited.

The most remarkable sand area known to me in Illinois is

in the out-of-the-way interior of the low sand plateau indicated

by Leverett ( '99, PI. VI.) as an island in the channel of the

Chicago outlet north of Havana (see map; also p. 143 of this

article). The eastern margin of this ancient island is skirted by

the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railway, but from the train

only a suggestion of its character appears. It is approximately

five or six miles wdde and twenty miles long, having an area of

about one hundred square miles. The middle third is especially

sandy and almost entirely waste land. About half of this is

covered with black-jack, and the other half, especially the

south-central part, contains blow-sand to an extent not sur-

passed anywhere else in the state, this region being locally

known as the Devil's Neck (PI. XIL, Fig. 1; XIV., Fig. 1; XX.,

Fig. 1 ). One tract of about eighty acres is almost entirely blow-

sand in successive ridges, suggesting great ocean waves in a

storm. Blow-outs of unusual extent surround it on all sides, and



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vegetation is scanty or altogether absent. The fauna and flora

here are so distinctly western that this tract might almost be

considered as a detached islet of the Upper Sonoran life zone.

Tlie other localities most frequently visited, were (1) the

Devil's Hole (PI. XIII.; XIX., Fig. 1; XX., Fig. 2), a similar but

much smaller tract of blow-sand a mile or so east of Havana;

(2) the exceptionally broad area of very sandy land south of

Havana (PI. VIII.-XI., XV.-XVII.), with numerous small tracts

of blow-sand and large bodies of black-jack timber; (3) the less

sandy and better-forested submarginal ridges, often fifty feet or

more in height, which extend through Havana, especially those

a mile or two north of the city, in the vicinity of Quiver Lake
(PI. XXL, Fig. 2); and (4) the moist sand strip at the base of

the low marginal bluff of the sand plain (PI. XXIIL), saturated

more or less extensively with outflowing ground-water, in part

forming the east shore of the river and of bottom-land lakes

bordering on the sand plain.

Two additional localities, both at a considerable distance

from Havana, were visited in 1905. One of these was Meredo-
sia, near the southern end of the central basin, about forty-five

miles below Havana. A small tract of blow-sand, with a few
blowouts and some black-jack, lies immediately south of the

town, and the distinctive sand fauna observed about Havana
seemed well represented here also. Aside from this, there

seemed to be very little blow-sand in the vicinity. The other

locality was the Moline Sand Hill, described by McNeill ('91,

p. 73). This extends along the Rock River, near its mouth,
only a few miles from the city of Moline, on the Mississippi,

just across the narrow intervening divide. It is a conspicuous

elongate sand-hill, about a quarter of a mile long, near the

south bank of the river. At the east end of the crest is an acre

or two of undisturbed waste land, with a group of several good-
sized blowouts, bordered by a small fringe of willow and Caro-

lina poplar on the east slope of the hill. The sand is here ap-

parently finer than at Havana. The fauna differs slightly from
that of the Illinois valley regions, but not to any marked de-

gree. While there are other and larger blow-sand areas in this



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part of the Mississippi valley, none of them are in this immedi-
ate vicinity, and it seems remarkable that the distinctive sand
fauna should be so well represented in so restricted an area.

Geographical Distribution of the Species.

Professor A. P. Morse has truthfully said of the Acrid'ddce

('99, p. 332): "Locust distribution is primarily and very dis-

tinctly climatal in character. * * * In its details it is influ-

enced to a very high degree by physiography and its attendant

conditions, such as character of the soil, humidity, etc. In its

broader features it is eminently characteristic of life zones and

regions. * * * It is in many cases dependent on and con-

firmatory of geological changes. For these reasons and those

noted at the beginning, viz., wide distribution, terrestrial and
conspicuous habits, numerical abundance, size, etc., the family

and its distribution are of high importance in a study of life

zones in their relation to agriculture, and of faunal regions in

their relation to general science."

The Acrid ii(J<(' of the sand region received my especial at-

tention, and, fortunately, the work of Blatchley ('03), Bruner

('97), and Gillette ('04) has furnished very satisfactory lists for

a comparison of species with those of neighboring states in the

same faunal zone.

There are now known from the United States and Canada,

in round numbers, about 650 Acridiidce. Blatchley has listed 64

in Indiana. McNeill's Illinois list ('91) was somewhat incom-

plete, and contained only 55 species. Our present Illinois list

numbers about 78 species, to which may properly be added for

this discussion four species found by Blatchley near the Illinois

line, but which we have not yet searched for in the same kind

of situations near by on our side of the line. This makes a

practical total of 82 species for Illinois. Conversely, we have

found in eastern Illinois, although not near the boundary line,

two species which probably occur in Indiana, though not listed

by Blatchley. Bruner has recorded 1 50 species in Nebraska, and

Gillette 133 for Colorado. Groups of species variously recog-

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We have, then, as the nearest approximation to the truth at-

tainable at the present time:

Indiana, 66 species, Nebraska, 150 species,

Illinois, 82 species, Colorado, 133 species.

The excess in Illinois as compared with Indiana is very

largely due to its western sand districts; while the great varie-

ty in Nebraska may properly be ascribed to its wide range of

soil and climate, from the humid Missouri valley to the arid sand
hills of its western part. The suitability of an arid environment
for acridiid development is also evident in these figures. A com-
parison of the species of the three states first mentioned shows
that with the exclusion of the Tettigime, which cannot be accu-

rately compared at present, Nebraska contains nearly all the spe-

cies of Indiana and Illinois, and Illinois probably nearly all of

those of Indiana. Ten species of Illinois or Indiana do not occur
in Nebraska lists. These include two quite rare Illinois species,

MecosMhus plafypfe7-ns SLYid Melunoplus walshi; ^\q worihQvn spe-

cies, Trlmerotropis maritlma, Paroxya scudderi, and P. hoosteri,

Melanoplns extremus, and M. islandicus, the last three of which
have not yet been taken in Illinois; and three southern species,

Trimerotropis f^axafilis, Erltettix viygatn^, and MeJatioplus im-

pudicus, the first two not yet taken in Indiana.

The Arn'diidw of Champaign county in the vicinity of the

University of Illinois have received a great deal of attention,

and 82 species have been taken. This is a typical series of the

ordinary prairie and forest, not only of east-central Illinois,

but also of Indiana, of western Illinois, and of at least the ad-

jacent parts of Missouri and Iowa. These species should cer-

tainly be found in the Illinois River valley, as there is no lack

of suitable situations for all; they have merely not yet been
searched for, except in the sand region. There, 19 of them are
known to occur, and the same region, moreover, has 26 species

not yet found in Champaign county and not likely to be found
there, making an actual total of 45 (about one half more than in

Champaign county), and a probable total for the central lower
valley of 58—nearly twice that of Champaign county.



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Selecting the more distinctive sand Orthoptera of the Illi-

nois valley district, only three of which {Syrhula adniirahilis,

SpharagenioH boUi and Mclanoplus (dlfuiis) have been found in

Champaign county in dry situations, and comparing them with

those of other sand regions, the results are especially significant.

The principal sand areas examined by Blatchley were two: the

area of northeastern Indiana near the lower end of Lake Mich-

igan, and that of the Wisconsin morainic outwash in Vigo

county, southern Indiana, near Terre Haute. Opportunity is

thus afforded for a triangular comparison, the Illinois locality

being about midway betw^een the two in latitude. There are

36 species in the comparison, 32 of w^hich are in the Illinois

district, 17 in the lake region, and 12 in Vigo county. Only

four of the list are common to all three localities, but that is

apparently because the Vigo county area is not so sandy as the

others, these four being species of dry, but not necessarily

sandy, ground. They are

Spharagemon bolli Melanoplus atlanis

Schistocerca alutacea MelanopluH luridus

Five more Vigo county species occur also on the Illinois

valley sand, but are not recorded from the Indiana lake region.

These are

Tettix arenosHs Melanoplus unpudicux

Syrhula admirahilis Melanoplus minor

Ageneotettix scudderi

The presence of .1. scudderi and M. minor in this series is a

little strange; the others increase in numbers southward and

hence w^ere not found in the more northern situation.

One species {Nomofeffix compressus) common to the two

Indiana localities, although it occurs also in Illinois, has not

yet been taken in the Illinois valley sand region.

Of the species common to the Illinois valley and the Indi-

ana lake region there are 11 not found in Vigo county, most of

them decided sand lovers. The four marked with a star are at

or near the eastern limit of their range; the others reach the

Atlantic coast states. The list is as follows:



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Orphulella pelidna Psinidia fenestralis

Orphulella speciosa Hesperotettix pratensis

*Hippiscus tiiberciilatus Melanoplus fasciatus

*Hippiscus lialdemanii *Melanoplus angustipennis

Spharagemon Wyoming- *Phoetaliotes nebrascensis

ianum Gonocephalus Tohiistus

Of the species known from only one of the three localities,

there are in Vigo county two, CeuiliopJiilus Jatens and ulileri,

inhabiting dry sandy ground; in the lake region there is just one

species, GryUns arenosus, which seems peculiar to that region;

and in the Illinois locality twelve have been found, the range

of several of these species being extended to a very unexpected

degree by their discovery here. Their previously known range

is given in the appended list, which shows clearly the alliance

of this sand fauna with that of the Great Plains.

Mermiria neomexicana. Wyoming to N. M., Neb. to Tex. "Rocky
Mts. to Miss. R."

Mermiria hivittata. Fla., N. J., Kan., Utah, N. M., Tex., and

intervening states. Lower Austral (Morse), 111.? (McNeill).

Eritettix virgatus. Tex., Ark.

Amphitornus hicolor. "Mont, to Kan." A characteristic spe-

cies of the Great Plains (Bruner).

Hippiscus phoenicopter us. "Southern U.S. eastof Great Plains."

Moline, 111.

TrachyrlxacTiis thomasi. "Upper Miss. Valley and Colorado."

S. 111. (Thom.). Ky., Ind. Classed by Blatchley as Austro-

riparian. Its records are confused with those of other spe-

cies, but it probably occurs also from Minn, to Neb.

Campylacantha olivacea. Neb. to Tex. S. W. Ark.

CampylacantJia acutipennis . Tex., Kan.

Hesperotettix speciosus. "Rocky Mts. to Miss. R." Neb. to Tex.

N. M.

Melanophis liavidus. Ariz., N. M., Tex., Kan., Col., S. W.
Neb., Mont. N. W. 111. (McNeill).

Udeopsyllarolusta. "W. of Miss. R." Iowa (Osborn).

Oryllus personatus. Ariz., N. M., Tex., Col., Kan., Neb.



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It now remains to compare the Illinois sand regions with

the sand-hills of western Nebraska. Unfortunately, I have not

a definite list for the latter locality. The general Nebraska

list shows that all the Arridiida' of the Illinois valley sand dis-

trict are found in that state with the exception of the southern

MeJanophis imijudicus and Er'dettix riryafus, and about half of

them in the western part, but that a number of additional sand

species appear in that part of the state. As to the intervening

states, Missouri and Iowa, we have only an old list of about 41

Acrid iid(r for low^a (Osborn '92), in which 19 of the 30 Illinois-

Nebraska sand species are lacking. Further knowledge of the

Orthoptera of these states is very desirable. The occurrence of

Melanoplus impudicns and Eriteftix rlrgafus in our district gives

force to Morse's suggestion ( '99, p. 316) that a southern species

of sandy or light-soil situations may have a more elastic north-

ern limit than one of damp and heavy soil.

So far, therefore, as the Orthopfera are concerned, the evi-

dence indicates that the fauna of the Illinois valley sand region

has much stronger western affinities than that of the south end

of Lake Michigan; that it is quite closely allied with that of

the eastern part of Nebraska, which is within the Carolinian

life zone, but can hardly be called Sonoran; and that it is of

western derivation, and migrated eastward, probably by way
of the glacial outwash in Iowa, at an early period.

Our entire list of western Illinois sand insects numbers 596

species. From these has been selected the following list of 85

species which seem to be not generally distributed east of the

Rocky Mountains. These, of course, are the significant ones in a

study of distribution. They fall into six classes with regard to

the extent and direction of their range outside of western Illi-

nois, the scattering, the local, the northern, the southern, the

eastern, and the western species, and are correspondingly listed

in this connection as being of especial interest, a summary state-

ment of their previously known distribution being appended to

each species. The last two groups are divided into near and

distant species, the distinction being based on their presence

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Each locality record from the collections of the Illinois

State Laboratory of Natural History is separately indicated by

the letter I, and from the Bolter Collection of Insects by B.

SCATTERING SPECIES (4).

Zuphlum longicolle, Cal., Tex., Ohio (B).

Adalia hipunctata. Can. and N. S., south to N. J., west to Neb.

;

Col. to Ariz. Until the last few years practically unknown
in Illinois; now frequent.

Lucanus placidus. Pa., 111., Ark. (I), Minn. (B).

Lema cormita. S. C, Kan., N. W. Ind.

LOCAL SPECIES (8).

Bacunculus hlatchleyi. Ind., Wis. (B). [Throughout 111.]

Melanoplus inactieilli, n. sp. [Rock Island Co.]

Nobis elongatus^ n. sp. [Mason Co.]

Harpalini^ sp. [Rock Island Co.]

Harpalus testaceus. la.. 111.

Meroptera cviatella. Cook Co.

Sphcerophthalma chlamydata. Mason Co.

Ammophila argentata^ n. sp. [Mason Co.]

NORTHERN SPECIES (2).

Melanoplus fasciatus. Can., north half U. S., south limit N. J.,

Pa., Ind., Mo. to Col.

Melanoplus minor. Can., north half of U. S., Okl. and Ariz.

SOUTHERN SPECIES (11).

Ischnoptera incequalis. Ga., Ind. and Tex., to C. Am.
Mermiria Mvittata. Fla. to N. J., thence to Utah and N. M.,Kan.

to Tex., 111.?

HippisGus phoenicopterus . S. U. S. east of Great Plains, S. 111.,

S. Ind. to N. J.

Melanoplus impudicus. N. J., S. C, and Ga., to S. Ind. and
Ark.

Cicada marginata. N. J. to Utah, S. 111., and southward.

Tettigia Jiieroglyphica . N. J. to Mex. Tex. (B).

Carahus syhosus. Mass. (I)., N. Y. to Tex., Kan. (I)., 111.

Saprinus ferrugineus. Tex., Fla. (B).



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ChalcodermuM collarh. N. J., D. C, Va. (B), Ky. (B), Fla.

(B),Tex.

Xanthoptera .semi/fava. S. States, N. J. to Tex.

Bemlidf'la capiioptera. Ga., Ky., Tex.

EASTERN SPECIES (13).

Near (9).

Sphceridiuni scarahceoides . Atl. Coast to Chicago. [Rock Island

Co.] Introduced.

Clerus thoracicus. Pa. (I ), D. C, N. J., N. Y. (B ), 111.

Opatrinus notus. Pa., D. C, N. J., 111., Ind.

Chalepus smithi {Odontota horni). Mass., N. J., D. C, N.E.

111., N.W. Ind.

Scotohates calcaratus. Vt., N. J., D. C, Mich. (B), La. (B), 111.

Xylovinus saperdioides. Miss. K. east to Fla. (B) and Vt. (I)

;

Wis. (B).

Proetacanthus hrevipennis . N. J. to Fla., Ky.

Sphmrophthalma harmonia. Mass. to Fla., Ind.

Epeolus pusilhis. N. H., Mass., N. J., 111.

Distant (4).

Mecostethiis platypterus. N. Eng.

Pentatoma juniperina. E. States north of N. J., thence into

Can.; Col.; Duluth, Minn. (I).

Ualtica fuscocenea. Mass., Ga.

Psilocephala pictipennis. N. J., Ga., Fla.

WESTERN SPECIES (47).

Near (16).

Mermiria neomexicana. "Rocky Mts. to Miss. R.", Neb. to Tex.,

Wyo. to N. M.

Hippiscus haldemanii. N. W. Ind. to the Rocky Mts., N. M.

Hesperotettix pratensis. Fla., N. W. Ind., S. 111., Ark. to la.

and west to Cal.

Hesperotettix speciosus. Miss. R. to Rocky Mts., Neb. to Tex.,

N. M., S. 111. prairie (I).

Melanoplus liavidiis. N. W. 111. ; S. W. Neb., Kan., Tex. and

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Melanophis angustipennis . S. E. Ind., la. to Kan. and Mont.,

Tex.

Phoetaliotes nehrascensis. N. W. Ind., N. W. 111., la., Tex. to

Alberta.

Udeopsylla robusta. "W. of Miss. R.", la., N. M.

Cicada dorsata. 111. to Tex., la., Kan., Col.

Nothopus zahroides. "Western States", 0. 111., la., L. Sup. (B),

Neb. (B), Ool. to Ariz, and N. M.

Lacon rectangularis. Ind. and 111. to Col.; Kan., Tex. (B), S.

States.

Ghrysomela auripennis. N. W. Ind., Fla. (B ), Neb. to Tex.,

Col.

Heliocheilus paradoxus. "Mid. Miss. Valley, south and west."

Col., Tex.

Olethreutes dimidiana. Mo. (Identification doubtful.)

Anthrax halcyon. Ind. to N. D., and Ariz.

letralonia dilecta. III. (Robertson), Kan., Col., Tex., N. M.

Distant (31).

Eritettix virgatus. Ark., Tex.

Amphitornus bicolor. Mont, to Kan.

Campylacantha oUvacea. S. W. Ark., Neb. to Tex., S. 111. prai-

rie (I).

Oryllus personatus. Neb., Kan., Col., Tex. to Ariz.

Sinea confusa. Tex., Ariz., Oal.

Zelus socius. Dak., Kan., Tex., Ariz., Col., Id., Cal.

Zelus renardi. "W. St.", Cal.

(The next four species have each a single eastern record,

l)robably in areas similar to the Illinois sand region.)

Stachyocnemis apicalis. Dak., Tex., Mex., Cal. Fla.

Catorhintha mendica. I. T. and Col. to C. Am., Dak., Cal. Fla.

Cydnus ohliquus. Col., Utah, Tex. to Cal., Mex. N. Y.

Gorimelmna ciliata. Kan., Col., Greg., Cal. Fla.

Brachynemurus irregularis. Tex. Havana (Currie).

Myrmeleon immaculatus occidentalis. La., Col., Nev., Ariz.,

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Polyphylla hammondi. Tex. to Ariz.

Mecas pergvata. Dak to Tex., Ool., Kan., and N. M. (B),S. 111.

prairie (I).

Metachroma angastuluiu. Mont.

Metachroma parallelum. Mont., Kan.

Epitragus acutus. Kan., Tex., Mex.

Phacepholis Candida. Kan., Col., Tex. and N. M. (B).

Acontia lactipennis. Tex.

Crambus haytiellus. Tex., Hayti.

Asilus angustifrons. Wash.

Rhadiurgus leucopogon. Neb., S. D.

Zodion ohliquefasciatum. 8. D., Kan., Tex. to Ariz., Mex.,

Mont., Wash.

Chelomis anglieri. Neb.

Sph(]e}'ophthalma J,.-guttata. Kan., Tex.

Trielis octomaculata. Ark.

Odynerus geminatus. Tex.

Anthophilus pulchellus. Col.

Tachytes texanus. Tex.

It will be seen that the above general list fully bears out

the inference drawn from the Orf/topfera alone that the deriva-

tion of this sand fauna is predominantly western. Of 85 species,

in all, which are not of general distribution, and which, there-

fore, according to Morse, are of especial value in studying fau-

nal differentiation, 73 range in some definite direction from

the sand region. Less than three percent of these (2 species)

can be classed as northern, and neither of these is confined to

sandy land. Over 14 percent (11 species) are southern, the in-

crease over the northern species being related to the southward

extension of the Great Plains fauna. The range of several on

this list seems to be imperfectly defined. Eighteen percent

(13 species) are eastern species, one of them {SplKrridiuin scara-

keoides) lately introduced, and its western limit carried by this

record still farther westward. Several of these are apparently

rare species, really of larger range. PenMoma jauiperina, Chah-



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pus smlthi, Opafrhius notus. and Sphftropthahna harnionia, are

probably true eastern species, the Fentafoma a.nd Ojjotrin us giv-

ing way in the arid region to other dominant species, though the

former has lately been found to occur in Colorado. Sixty-four

percent (47 species) are western, most of them definitely so,

and over 42 percent (31 species) have not even been recorded

from any adjacent state.* Four of the HeterojHera , however,

have each been listed once at the Atlantic coast, three of them
in Florida; and there is no apparent reason, except that of

greater distance, why the eastern sand areas should not acquire

species of the arid West in the same way as is assumed for

Illinois.

Several species of the Illinois valley sand region

—

Campy-
lacantha olivacea, Hesperotettlx pratensiSj H. speciosus, and Schis-

tocerca alidacea—are not rare on the dry soils of the Illinoian

glaciation in southern Illinois, and last season (1905) the Cani-

pijlacantha w^as actually abundant there, in both the w^estern and

the eastern portions, on the common Ambrosia of that district,

A. hideufcda. These species probably do not exist on the black

soil of central Illinois.

The presence in the Illinois valley sand region, as reported

by Mr. Gleason, of several characteristic plants of the Great

Plains flora, would doubtless attract their own insect fauna,

and thus may directly account for the presence of a number of

insect species.

Sand as a Factor of Animal Environment.

It has already been stated herein that the presence of sand

in the soil has little effect on the fauna—and this is true of the

flora also—until the sand reaches a stage of purity which per-

mits it to dry readily and to drift gradually with the wind, in

which condition it is called blow-sand; and that except for

brief periods at times of rain or melting snow, this is dry and
loose at the surface, but always moist a short distance below.

In what way these blow-sand conditions have so marked

* A comparison of these data with those independently obtained from the flora by
Mr. Gleason, on p. 191, second paragraph, will be of especial interest.



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an influence on the character of the biota is not very evident.

The fact that some organisms are attracted by the presence of

others, only complicates the problem. After casting about for

species that appeared to be directly influenced by these condi-

tions with the least likelihood of complications of any kind, 1

selected the acridiid genus MeUniopIu^. Just v^hy M. flcwidus
should occur only in the most barren blow-sand situations

while M. feiiiKr-ruhrum seems interdicted by even a suggestion

of blow-sand, seems at first sight almost unaccountable. Fac-

tors which might possibly have an influence in this case are

(1) food supply, (2) moisture, (3) temperature, (4) sparseness

of vegetation, (5) the mechanical effect of sand, by its drifting,

etc., (6) protection, (7) competition, and (8) the effect of sand
on the immature stages.

Considering these factors successively, the matter of food

supply might be expected to solve the problem, since McNeill
( '91, p. 75, M. ceHchri) found fiavidus constantly associated with

the sand-bur {Cenchna^) which grows on sandy ground; but the

sand-bur is locally vastly more wide-spread than Jiavidus, and
in our field-work y/r//;/(/«.s' was found in blowouts whether sand-

burs were present there or not. Morse ('99, p. 315) says that

the food question with grasshoppers is a matter of quantity

rather than quality, indicating that they have bat little pref-

erence as to food supply. As to the subject of moisture,

there is doubtless at times much difference between sand and
ordinary soil in this respect. Capillary action is stronger in

ordinary soil, which therefore dries out more deeply, and at

the surface more slowly, than sand; but ultimately one is as

dry as the other. The factor of atmospheric humidity at close

range with the soil may have some influence upon these geoph-

ilous species, as its variations over sand and earth would doubt-

less be expressed by quite unlike curves. With regard to the

direct water supply of these insects it must be remembered
that they drink dew only, which is at least not noticeably de-

ficient over our sand regions as compared with prairie soils.

The third consideration also, that of temperature, presents only

vague possibilities which seem insufficient to limit the local



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range of these species. In clear weather the temperature over

the blow-sand is probably higher by day and lower at night

than in the case of ordinary soil, but the difference in this

respect can not be great between some grassy tops of sand-hills

occupied hy Jiavidus and a close-cropped prairie pasture where

femur-ruhrum abounds. With regard to the sparseness of the

vegetation usual on sand-dune tops, this can hardly be an influ-

ential factor, as it is not a constant feature of the areas known
to be occupied by fiav'ulus', and the mechanical effect of drift-

ing or loose sand upon such active insects with so well-devel-

oped an exoskeleton,is surely of little consequence to them. As
to protective coloration, both of these species are protectively

colored. McNeill ('91) notes the strongly imitative colora-

tion oi flavklus on sand; feniur-rubruni is slightly darker above

than flavidus, and therefore better suited to an ordinary

soil surface; but, in any case, protective coloration is an

effect rather than a cause. Insects which are adapted to ob-

tain food in exposed situations usually approximate the ap-

pearance and color of something in their normal surround-

ings, but surely do not flt themselves in wherever their original

coloration matches best. The next factor, competition for

space, is suggested in explanation of the limitation to sand

of insects such Sisfavidus, the idea being that they are species

also fitted for existence in more favored situations, but simply

unable to hold their own there in competition with other spe-

cies such as femnr-ruhyuyn. The facts of general and local dis-

tribution, however, do not support any such idea. Lastly, the

effect of sand on the immature stages comes up for considera-

tion. This is an important factor, analogous to taking root

and dissemination among plants, and may ultimately prove to

have a considerable influence on local distribution; but we
have no data as to these stages in flavidus. Grasshoppers ordi-

narily choose a rather hard soil in which to place their egg mass-

es, and excavations in sand are not maintained with the same
facility as in earth without special adaptations for the purpose.

In general, therefore, it may be said that while there are

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blow-sand and ordinary soil which further observation and ex-

periment may show to have a controlling influence on the local

distribution of species, these factors do not, so far as our pres-

ent information goes, satisfactorily account for the observed
peculiarities of specific distribution.

The Relation of Sand and Climate to Insect Coloration.

One of the most evident color adaptations among sand in-

sects is that of direct imitation of the color effect of the sand.

The exposed condition of insects upon any surface where the
vegetation is more or less scanty makes it advantageous that
all species existing there and lacking other means of protec-

tion should be as inconspicuous as possible; and species on
our list belonging to various orders, have developed remarkably
pale dorsal colors, apparently for this reason. In the case of

the Carolina grasshopper {Dissosteira caroliNa), which inhabits

not only the sand surfaces in this district but also the darker
bare surfaces, individuals taken on the sand seemed to show a

decided approximation towards its color when compared with
those from darker ground in Champaign county. Vosseler, who
has studied out and described in detail the fundamental pattern

of the Acridiidw ('02, Bd. 17, p. 22), calls attention to the fact

that the molting occurs in daylight, and that the nearly col-

orless fresh exterior is then exposed to the action of reflected

rays from surrounding surfaces, which, he suggests, may in

some way, by photographic action, produce an approximation
to their general color. How this can occur is not clear, but
Poulton's experiments on Lejjidopfera, and various other obser-

vations, all point to some such effect. The observations con-

cerning the Carolina grasshoppers above recorded (made before

reading Vosseler's paper) , and the great differences in the ground
color of individuals of this species can be satisfactorily account-

ed for only in this way.

The more evident examples of sand imitation are the pale

brown of HarpaJus fesfaceus, H. erraficus, and Geopinus incrassa-

tns, the broad white markings of Cicindela lepida and Tetra-

gonoderus fasciatiis, the ashy grays of Sfachi/ocnemis and Emhle-



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this (jr/seut;, the brown coloi' of GnjUus jjermKutus and Udeop-

sylla rohusta, and the remarkable approximation to sand-color

effects in Trimerotropis r/fr/na, Spharafiemon iri/ommgianum, and

other Acrid iidri'.

The subject of the protective colorations of the phytophi-

lous species is an extensive one, and not closely related to the

subject under discussion. The phytophilous, yet undoubtedly

xerophilous, green grasshoppers of the genera Camp)}/ 1acantha

and Hespeyotcttix provoke additional questions as to the envi-

ronmental factors which limit them to dry soils. Corimelcena

ciliata, both phytocolous and arenicolous, unless protected by

the usual "bug" odor or flavor, may escape its enemies by what
Dr. Forbes has called a resemblance to nothing in particular;

and apparently the same is true of the Tenehrionidw. It is per-

haps going a little too far, however, to tell here that I was
once, for a moment, completely deceived on seeing Bhyssematus

lineaticollis lying in the axil of a milkweed leaf alongside a rail-

road track, by its exact resemblance to a locomotive cinder.

A type of coloration quite opposed to mimicry is that of

the non-sympathetic, or contrasting and conspicuous, colors.

Examples of this type are seen in the bright colors—presuma-

bly serving as a warning—of certain exposed sand insects oth-

erwise protected, such as the stinging Mutillidce a,nd Bern becidce,

the bug PeriUus circumcinctus, and some of the tiger-beetles

[CicAndelidw). A curious fact was noted with regard to the

large female mutillid, SphcpropldhaJma occidcntalis. This is

not rare in southern Illinois and is of the usual bright scarlet

color. So also is an example from Meredosia; but the six indi-

viduals captured near Havana were all of a faded golden-ochre-

ous tint when taken. The latter locality is about its northern

limit, and we have never taken it elsewhere in central Illinois.

Other species are apparently colored in imitation of the

preceding class. Phidippus insolens, a spider of the blow-sand,

is colored and shaped in close imitation of a mutillid. Laphys-

tia 6-fasciata, a fly of the blowout pits, resembles a sand wasp
{Microbembex monodonta) of the same situations both in actions

and appearance. Vohicella fascirda, a very prettily striped syr-



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phid fly common in these sand regions, resembles a wasp. A
marked case of imitation was that of CJieJonus fexanus, flitting

in sparse low vegetation in company with an undescribed

Schizoceriis, and with difficulty distinguishable from it while in

action.

The non-sympathetic colors of the Acridiidie, such as those

of the hind wings and hind tibiae, are of unusual interest, es-

pecially as they seem to be subject to alteration—to a varying

degree in different species but always in the same direction

—

as the effect of certain climatic influences, apparently that of

the degree of humidity, or of humidity and temperature com-
bined.

The bright colors of the hind wings, especially noticeable

in the (Edipodince, are curiously at variance with the modest

protective tints of the insect at rest. Vosseler suggests that

these rainbow hues, which rival in brightness even those of the

Lepidoptera, constitute a "contrast-mimicry." While the pur-

suer is dazzled by the flashing colors, the wings are suddenly

closed, and the insect settles quietly to the ground, all track of

it being lost in a monotony of color. The genus C(doca/a, among
the Lepidoptera, is apparently an exactly parallel case. These

depend for protection on the close resemblance of the fore

wings to the bark of the trees on which they rest. It would

seem, however, from the data which follow, that any explana-

tion of the origin of the hind-wing colors of Orthopfera should

apply to those of the hind tibiae also.

Bruner ('93) has pointed out that red-winged species—and

he might have also said individuals—of grasshoppers are most

common in humid regions, and yellow-winged ones in more or

less arid regions; that in mountainous regions "just between

the dry and wet conditions" blue-winged forms occur; and that

from the Atlantic coast to the eastern edge of the Great Plains

red or orange is the characteristic color, while on the plains

and in other arid districts west and southwest these give way
almost entirely to yellow.

In Illinois the hind wings of Hipplscas tuberculatum and H.

phcetiicopterus are red, rarely yellow. Those of our common



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and only prairie species, H. rugosus, and also those of H. halde-

inanii, show a wide variation from bright red to nearly white.

The variation is usually discontinuous, there being three or

four fairly distinct colors: red, pinkish, yellow, and yellowish

white. Our collections of rugosus in the Illinois State Labora-

tory of Natural History, mostly from the humid prairie of cen-

tral Illinois, were classed as red and yellow. There are 141 7-ugo-

sus in all, 37 red-winged and 104 yellow, the latter number in-

cluding 46 taken in 1905, of which 15 were clear yellow, and 31,

taken mostly on the drier southern Illinois soils, w^ere pale

whitish yellow. HalclemanH from the sand region in 1905 were
22 red, 1 pinkish, and 9 yellow. Hippiscus tuhercidatus and

Psinidla fenestralis, normally red-winged in Illinois, are yellow-

winged in the West. The only species variable in wing color

and common in both the Illinois sand regions and on the humid
prairie are Hippiscus rugosus and Arphia xantJioptera, but I have

not at present a sufficient number of these from each locality

for comparison.

The facts at hand warrant the conclusion that while the

species of a given locality, and even the individuals of a species,

may differ greatly among themselves in regard to wing color-

ation, the general tendency of arid climates to replace red with

yellow and, under certain circumstances, yellow with blue, is

too evident to be questioned.

A very similar effect upon tibial coloration is even more ev-

ident, and I have taken especial pains to collect evidence on this

point. A notable series showing a direct influence of the blow-

sand environment—virtually equivalent to climatic influence

—

upon species within a short distance of each other, is afforded

in the genus Melanoplus by nearly every active sand-dune ex-

amined by us. In the first place, on the least sandy areas in

the nearest level cultivated ground, the dominant Melanoplus

is femur-rubrum, always with bright coral-red hind tibi*. Sec-

ondly, on the drier and more sandy grassy ground of the base

or lower slope of the dune we find it replaced by M. atlanis and

M. minor. Atlanis is here unusually variable in tibial color.

Most frequently it is red, as in fetnur-rubrtmi; sometimes paler.



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even pinkish, with bluish at base; or else bluish green, apically

yellowish or pinkish, the bluish green varying slightly towards

blue or green; or even yellowish. The difference between red

or salmon-pink, on the one hand, and the bluish to yellowish

tints on the other, is generally well marked. Of 70 specimens

of this species quite indiscriminately collected in the sand re-

gion, 46 had reddish tibiae, and 24 were of the blue-green or

yellow type—about one third of all, therefore, not being red.

The 46 red ones were 23 males and 23 females; the 24 blue-

green ones, 11 males and 13 females,—indicating that in this spe-

cies at least the sexes are evenly divided in this particular.

Twenty specimens of minor taken, had the tibiae either green-

ish blue or coral-red, without intergrades, 12 of these bluish

and 8 red. Only five of these were males, all with bluish

tibise.

Thirdly, on the upper parts of the dunes, where loose sand

and tufted growths begin (PI. XVIII., Fig. 1 ), these species are

replaced by swarms of M. angustipennis. This has clear blue

tibiae, rarely coral-red. A continuous search for examples

with red tibiae in this situation yielded only two specimens,

both undoubted angustipennis, one of each sex. The number of

this species taken was 125. Lastly, as one approaches and en-

ters the wind-excavated hollows of the apex, M. Jiavidns be-

comes most abundant. This invariably has tibiae of a brilliant

and beautiful blue, approaching the shade of cobalt-blue.

In the dense black-jack oak brush which irregularly covers

large areas of these sands (PL XXL, Fig. 1), four more species

of Melanoplus are found: luridus, iinpudicus, fasciatus, and scud-

deri. In comparison with the four open-ground species previ-

ously discussed, these four sheltered species confirm the gen-

eral deductions, as they all invariably had red hind tibiae. This

is true of these species elsewhere, excepting fasriafn.s, of which

individuals with pale green tibise have been recorded.

In the above comparisons of species from open ground I

refer to the colors of local examples from the sand regions only,

and an examination of records of the same species for the hu-

mid prairie and the sand region of the foot of Lake Michigan,



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with its moister atmosphere, at the eastward, and for the more

arid western regions, will be of interest.

Femur-ruhrmi and atlanis are common on the humid prai-

rie of Illinois. The tibiae of the former are always red there,

as in the sand region; those of the latter, as shown by a large

number of specimens, are about ninety percent red—the rest

being green—instead of only two thirds red as in the sand re-

gion. Blatchley ('03) says of angustijpennis in the Lake Mich-

igan sand region, that at least one third had red tibiae, the rest

blue. In a series of 64 specimens, 33 males and 31 females,

taken by me near Waukegan, exactly one half have red tibiae.

This is very significant, since red tibiae were seen in only two

out of 125 of the same species in our western Illinois sand re-

gions. The tibiae of minor, according to Blatchley, are usually

pale blue, pinkish at tip, sometimes red or dull yellow.

Of these four species in regions to the westward I have

found the following records. McNeill ('99) found one female

fenmr-ruhmni in October in southwest Arkansas with green

hind tibiae. In Texas I have recorded ('06) two such occur-

rences among only a few specimens seen in the early part of

the winter. Scudder ( '97 ) says the hind tibiae are normally red,

occasionally more or less tinged with yellowish, very rarely

pale green with a yellowish tinge. Examples with greenish

tibiae are recorded by him from the alpine region of the White

Mountains, and from Massachusetts, Utah, Texas, and Mexico.

The Massachusetts localities appear to be sandy districts. Gil-

lette ('04) notes that the uniform fuscous-brown of this species

in the East becomes in Colorado variably yellow-brown or with

bluish tints, in the latter case the tibiae also often bluish.

As to atlanis, Scudder ('97) says the tibiae are normally

rather bright red, not infrequently pale red, green, or yellow,

or even dark blue. According to him, examples from the arid

West are decidedly paler and more ashy, also those from sandy

localities such as the seashore. He records green tibiae in New
Hampshire and Massachusetts at the East, and in Montana,

Wyoming, Dakota, Colorado, Nebraska, and Missouri at the

West; also blue tibiae in Iowa, Colorado, Utah, and Texas; but



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thinks the red are always in the majority. McNeill ('99) re-

cords from Arkansas 39 athnus with red tibiae and 42 with green.

Caudell ('03) found the tibi?e of this species in Colorado to be

bright red, yellow, or blue. Cockerell ( '89) calls the blue-legged

form cwrule
i
pes.

Scudder says the hind tibia? of minor are generally nearly

uniform in color, usually pale red or glaucous, sometiuies plum-

beous or yellowish. Dodge (78) noted "a red-legged variety"

in Nebraska, of which he had taken many, but, as in our col-

lections, all were females. As in the previous comparison con-

cerning this species, the evidence is not full enough to be of

value here.

Scudder ('97) records only six specimens of (dif/usfijiejuiis.

all from Montana and Nebraska, describing the hind tibiae as

glaucous, feebly lutescent apically; })ut he has described M-

coccineipes, with bright red hind tibiae, from 59 specimens from

Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas, which is now generally

regarded as merely the red-legged form of (lugusfipexuis. If

such it be, then the usual rule seems reversed in this case, and it

may possibly be that, after all, the two are not the same spe-

cies. Cxillette ('04) records for Colorado a single male of ^^y/-

(///6f/^je/y>y/6- and moderate numbers of coccineipes, but remarks

on the probable specific identity of the two.

The only record of variation in jiavidiis which I have seen,

is that of a single otherwise abnormal, doubtful example from

Colorado with pale red tibi* (Scudder, '97).

Mehnioplus packdrdii, a very variable species of wide range

west of the Mississippi, has the tibiae either glaucous or uniform

red, according to Scudder ('97). He had 176 specimens.

These showed that in this species red tibia^ prevail, perhaps ex-

clusively, at the northward, occurring from British Columbia

to Montana, and thence to New Mexico and Kansas. Both red

and blue tibiae are seen in examples from Montana, Utah, Col-

orado, and Nebraska, and blue only in the specimens from Wy-
oming, Iowa, and Texas. Bruner ('85) received quite a num-

ber of examples of packardil from Oregon and vicinity, all of

which had the hind tibiae red, instead of bluish—the usual color



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in Nebraska specimens. Gillette states ('04) that the species

occurs both on hills and on level ground in Colorado, and of his

specimens 69 had red and 58 blue tibiae. McNeill ('99) found

the tibiae green in southwest Arkansas, red and green in Newton
Co., and purplish red in Marion Co. The records of this species

indicate that the cooler northern climate has the same effect

as a humid climate in favoring the development of red tibiae.

The Rocky Mountain locust, M. spretus, has red tibiae, and
its normal range is from the Saskatchewan towards Colorado and
Utah. Examples with pale blue tibiae {M. spretus cwrideipes

Ckll.) are recorded from Nebraska by Dodge ('78).

Finally, Scudder has separated M. bivittatus, having yellow

tibiae, from femoratus, having red tibiae, but these are almost

certainly varieties of one species. Femoratus ranges from Nova
Scotia and Maine to British Columbia and California, and south

to Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland?

and North Carolina. It is much the commoner of the two in

Illinois, all but 4 out of 133 taken by us in this state being of

this variety. Bivittatus abounds on the Great Plains, ranging

principally from Texas to Utah and Nebraska and, in lesser

numbers, from Texas to Ohio, and northward into Canada be-

tween Manitoba and the Pacific. The range of these two spe-

cies accords with that of the two tibial color-varieties of species

previously mentioned, indicating that variation in tibial color,

which is the only constant difference noted between bivittatus

2i,nd femoratus, is not a sufficient basis for specific separation.

Briefly, then, some species of Melanoplus have bluish tibiae

only, some red only, regardless of locality, but in other species

we find individuals with both kinds of tibial coloration in vary-

ing proportions, red on the one hand, and various combina-
tions of blue, green, and yellow on the other, the proportion of

the two differing greatly according to species and also accord-

ing to locality, in all species but possibly one the blue tibiae

increasing with the increase in aridity or in sandiness, except in

higher latitudes, and being most numerous east of the Rocky
Mountains, from Texas to Nebraska, and least so east of the

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The details previously given are collated in the following

table, in which the figures, when standing alone, represent per-

centages of individuals of the variety with bluish to yellowish

tibice, instead of red. Estimated percentages are queried, and
dashes indicate lack of data or non-occurrence of species. In

the absence of precise data the proportion is expressed by words,

or, if unknown, is indicated by the plus mark (+ ).

DISTRIBUTION AND PEOPORTION OF MEL.VNOPLUS HAVING BLUISH TO YELLOWISH HIND TIBhM.

Species



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the change seems to be, as in the spectrum, from red to yellow,

then green, then blue, the intermediate steps between red and

green or red and blue being usually absent.

Local Disteibution of Species in the Sand Areas. The
Insect Associations.

A careful study of the life of a region soon enables one to

separate it into biological groups or associations, although in

the ultimate analysis nearly every species requires a shelf of

its own in the biological classification. It does not seem desir-

able in this connection to attempt more than a sketch of the

insect life of each of the various general types of environment
in the sand region. The observations here recorded are given

also in the annotated list which follows.

One would not at first sight expect to see much life on the

areas of bare sand or with very scanty vegetation, (PL X.,

XIII.-XVI.,) but, in fact, all except the larger entirely barren

areas are busy scenes of insect activity, and there seems to be

no great change in relative numbers from year to year. The
exposed species of the blow-sand may receive attention first.

These are largely predaceous. Cicindela formosa generosa and
G. scutellaris lecontei are common everywhere (PI. XIV., Fig. 1;

XV., XVI.), and the light-colored and wary C. lepida flits on
the bare sand in blowouts (PI. XIV., Fig. 1, 2). The vertical

burrows of their larvae may be seen opening here and there,

and the beetles themselves may be dug out of such burrows in

wet weather. Stachyocnemis apkalis likes to run over the sand

among thin vegetation (PI. XVI.), and is sometimes seen in ex-

cessive abundance. Returning to a locality where it had
been thus abundant the day before, rainy weather having set

in meanwhile, I could find only one or two anywhere in the

vicinity where they had just before been most numerous, and
these were hiding under dried horse-dung. Some were once
noted apparently feeding on a bit of fresh bird-dropping. Lep-

idoptera are not much in evidence here, except Euhaphe and
Cramhus haytiellus, which are not infrequent. In the blowouts
(PI. XIV., ¥[g.l)Microbembex monodotita 3ind Laphystia 6-fasciata



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are seen resting on the bare sand and occasionally making a

short quick flight. Bemhex spinoke is occasional. The Bemhe-
cidce oviposit in burrows in the sand and provision them with
flies. The red female Mitfi/l/(hv are conspicuous as they walk
hurriedly along, presumably in search of insects with which
to stock their nests, often followed by the black, winged
males. (PL XIV., Fig. 1; XV., XVI. ) Predaceous flies. Anthrax
and Asilidce, the latter including Lcqjhi/stid, are common, rest-

ing on the sand or flying about. (PI. XIV., Fig. 2; XVI.) Those
alert personifications of incessant activity, the Ceropalidce, flit

rapidly along near the ground amongst the vegetation, (PI.

XVI.,) searching for spiders for their nests, and if the spider

Phidippiis insolens did not look so much like a female mutillid

it might not be able to assume the manner which gives it

its specific name. Of course the grasshoppers are a conspicu-

ous feature of the blow-sand, MelcDioplns fiavidus and M. angus-

tipeiuiis and the bright-winged (J^dijwdinfr—such as Spharage-

niOH iryonii)igianiiiu,Hippiscus, Pshtldia fenestndis, and others

—

jumping about or flying here and there over the bare sand. (PI-

XIV., Fig. 1; XV., etc.)

Logs, boards, dried dung, and other shelters are not very

common on the sand prairie, but underneath them we find a

second and very interesting group of insect associations. At

the Devil's Neck we have found Grglliis personatus, Nothopus

zabroides, CeuthopldUis sp., GeopliiHS incrassatus, Cnffacfuiflius

diibius, Harpalifs caliginosus, Anlsodxictylus nisticiis, Tcnties flav-

Ipes, and others, the Carahidw all quite abundant. In June
many Nothopus were found here, but all were dead. Under
bark and sticks on sand under trees (PI. XX., Fig. 2) were

Ischnoptera huequalis, UdeopsylJa robusta, and some curious

cydnid nymphs. Beneath boards on very sandy pasture land

were Lacon yedangiilmi and Opatr'uius iiotifs in abundance, also

Harpalns testaceus and H. erraticus, the latter commonest. Un-
der the remnants of a dead animal in a blowout were Trox sca-

hrosus and Canthon nigvicontis.

A third group are the burrowers in bare sand, among which

are the tiger-beetles and their larvae and various Hgmenojjtera.



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The ant-lions made their obconic pits wherever they could se-

cure protection from rain, and waited at the bottom for an

unwary insect to walk into the trap. A tiny surface-burrow

in open sand, like that of a mole, was made by a small carabid

larva. The most curious work seen, was that of a small active

microlepidopterous larva, which webs together a tube of sand,

usually beginning at the base of a plant, and extending it long

distances (two or three feet), up to the tops of the stems. We
have found these web tubes on Onagra and several other herba-

ceous plants. The adult was reared by Mr. J. J. Davis, and named
by the Bureau of Entomology Olefhreides cUniidiana. Discrep-

ancies in the biology of that species and ours lead us to think

that an error has crept in somewhere. The web closely re-

sembles that of Prionapferyx nebidifera, described and figured

by Daecke ('05), which he found on huckleberry and sand myr-

tle growing on white sand in New Jersey; but Mr. Daecke has

seen our larva, and says it is not the same as his.

Turning now to the tufted and moderately dense vegetation

of the neighboring areas of open waste land, too sandy for cul-

tivation or even for pasturage (PI. XVIII., Fig. 1), there is

found an apparently inexhaustible variety of insect life. Grass-

hoppers swarm everywhere here. Melanoplvs augustipennls is

as numerous here as M. femur-riibrurn on the prairie pastures.

Ageneottetlx scudderi, Psinidia, and Trachyrhachis, as well as the

more familiar Dissosteira 2,n& Hipinscus rugosus, are seen in fall,

and Hippiscus phcenicopterm and H. haldemanil in June. About

the Devil's Neck, Amphitornus bicolor, a species of the Great

Plains, was now and then taken in such ground. In short

growths of coarse grass at the Moline Sand Hill were large

numbers of Orphulella speciosa. Upon the vegetation of the

waste areas mentioned were (Ecanthus 4-punctatus, Bacunculus

hlatchleyi, and Conocephalus rohustus,—the latter, head down,

simulating a grass leaf,— also Campylacanfha, Neottiglossa sulci-

frons, and a host of others. The Campylacantha was not con-

fined here to Ambrosia bidentata, upon which we uniformly

found it in southern Illinois. Here ant-lion adults fluttered



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weakly about. The song of Cicada niarrjhmfa, resembling that

of the periodical cicada, was heard; and in the twilight came
the penetrating shrilling of Conocephalas robustus, and the rat-

tling note of the male of Heliocheilus paradoxus, as moths of

the latter species danced in groups here and there.

The abundant wild flowers were visited by large numbers
of bees, wasps, and other aculeate Hijmenoptera , many of which
were species rarely or never seen on the prairie,

—

Diffis plu-

nn'jje.s, for example,—probably associated with the unusual flora.

Fauiilies which nest in sand were well represented, such as the

Larridce, which capture young Orthoptera to provision their

nests, the Bewbecida', which use flies for this purpose, and the

bee family Collefidrf'. In fact, this kind of region seems partic-

ularly favorable to the development of these insects in great

numbers and variety because of the undisturbed ground and
vegetation in addition to the character of the soil. Hoppner
COl) shows that similar conditions prevail in a tract of dune
sands along the Weser valley in Germany, fiading there six

characteristic local species of bees, and three others more
abundant there than elsewhere, the total list including two
thirds of all the bees found in northwest Germany. To de-

velop this subject for our district would require vastly more
time than was available.

The insects associated with some of the more common
plants of the sand region may next be grouped under their re-

spective plants.

Mesadenla atr/plieifolia.—This may well head the list of

host plants, with its interesting insect guests. On the flowers

of scattered clumps of these plants were two far western spe-

cies, a large tenebrionid (Eplfraf/Ns artffa.s) and a long-legged re-

duviid {Zeliis sociiis), also Lijga'us bicrucis, and, upon the stems,

Languria bicolor, the larvae of which burrow in the stems.

Opuntia humifusa.—This cactus was usually abundant, and

sometimes supported flourishing colonies of Pentatoma Janipjeri-

na. It was also responsible for the presence of the bright-yel-

low-striped chunky little syrphid fly, Volucella fasciata, seen



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feeding in the flowers of various plants, as its larva lives in the

cactus flesh. Collops tricolor, Acmceodera tuhulu?^, and Strigoder-

ma arhoricola were noted within the flowers.

Onagra biennis.—In addition to the larva of the web tube

previously mentioned, this was fed upon by Attelahus hipustu-

latiis, Haltica fuscocenea, Tyloderma foveolatnm, and Ckalcoder-

nius coUaris, and often harbored a number of adult Metachroma

parallelum.

Monarda punctata.—This abundant plant of the sand re-

gions about Havana was seen at different times to have its

stems dotted with Corimekena ciliata and Sehirus cinctus. The

Coriniekena, usually considered quite a rare species, was also

extremely abundant in nearly bare sand about the bases of lit-

tle grass tufts, every turn of the finger in the sand bringing

several to the surface. Honey-bees were common upon the

flowers of the Monarda.

Commelina virginica.—The leaves of this plant were white-

streaked by the feeding of adults of Lema corntda, the larva of

which bores in the stems.

Rhus aromatica.—This dense, bushy sumac (PL XIX.) sup-

ported BJepharida rhois and its sticky larvse, Perilhis circum-

cinctus, and Besthenia insitiva. Catorhintha niendica and Zelus

socius also occurred on it.

Euphorbia coroJlata.— Chariesterus antennator was once

noted very common on flowers of this species.

Cassia chfonwcrista.—This common flowering plant of the

waste sand land was well populated. Bonibus, Apis, Plesia

(Mgzine), Polistes, eta., were busy on its flowers, and PAormiw

temenovcF was numerous about it. Bruchus cruentatus was swept

from it in numbers, probably breeding in the seeds.

Cracca virginiana.—A group of these plants was infested

with Macrobasis unicolor.

Callirhoe triangnlata.—This formed a sprangling tuft of

stems and long-petioled radical leaves, and at their extreme

bases, within the tuft, were often large enveloping masses of

"frog-spittle", containing bulky blackish larval Cercopidce, proh-



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ably Le})yrou}(( mydida. the adult of which was taken on this

plant.

Euthamid sp. (Solirla(/o).—In a small patch of this plant

the ph^'tophilous Hesperotettix prafensis was quite abundant.

Along the railroad track near Forest City, Phaeepholis Can-

dida was abundant on some undetermined low weeds.

For the concluding group of inhabitants of the open waste
sandy land I may appropriately mention our herpetological ob-

servations in this region, which cover all the characteristic ver-

tebrates noted. There were four of these: the box-turtle {Cis-

tiido Carolina, PI. XI[.,Fig. 2), the striped \iz3,Yd{Cnemido2)honis

scxiineafas), the hog-nose snake i Ht^ferodoh simas), and a small

Hy/a, or tree-toad. Ten years ago the box-turtles were quite

common at the Devil's Hole, but I have seen very few of late

years. The striped lizard ranges throughout the valley, and is

not rare here. The hog-nose is quite common, especially along
roadsides and sandy shores.

The general arid aspect of the sandy regions is relieved by
the moist growth at the bottoms of deep wind-excavations in

the sand, and here a very different fauna obtains. Adults of

aquatic neuropteroids, such as Hexagenia and various dragon-
flies, rest on plants here or fly about; Locustidce and their nymphs
suddenly come into prominence,—forexample, A7y)///V//^/;>/, Scnd-

deria, and Aitibli/rori/pJia ah/cri; and moisture-loving grasshop-

pers, such as Dicliroiiiorpha riridis and Oip/i it IcJ /(f pelidna ,Ye'plsice

those of the dry sand. A variety of rare and interesting Hcni-

ipfcra occurred on this vegetation; for example, Honia^mus ftitei-

frons. Long grass on the sides of hollows of this kind was well

populated with elongate tryxaline grasshoppers, Mermiria hi-

rittafa and tieomcxicaua and Sjirhiila ndniirahilis, the latter in

the drier and sparser portions.

The sandy roadwa5^s have some fairly deflnite insect asso-

ciations. Here Aphodiu.s riiheoliis, Cantlion kevis, Ojithophagus

hecafc, and 0. pennsi/Irauicas are found at the usual occupations
of these genera; Anthrax, Erax, and Cicin(/cla fonno.sa generosa

and sciitellaris lecontei fly along the bare wheel-track lines; Am-
inophila is common, and Mttgacliih latinianas and Epeolus lunatus



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bunch up in cool or rainy weather on the dead weed stems;

while the border of dandelions and sweet clover is visited by
numbers of VoluceJla fasciatus, Dielis phmupes, Agapostemo7i

splendens, etc. In the level and least sandy roads are found Me-
lanoplus femur-ruhrum and Cicindela punctulata, and, under
boards, along the fence lines, Gryllus yennsylvanieas, Carahus

sylvosus, etc.

Culture of various kinds accounts for the presence here of

the potato-beetle, box-elder bug, chinch-bug, potato stalk-borer,

and house-fly, and of the male of Blatfa orientalis at an electric

light. In a street at Forest City, adults of Lucanus phicidiis

were coming to the surface at the base of shade trees along the

walks.

Taking up now the forested ground, a situation claiming

especial attention is the very sandy black-jack land, with its

matted scrubby growth (PL XXL, Fig. 1), whose contribution

to our list of sand insects was by no means small. The char-

acteristic grasshoppers here were Melanopjlus luridus, impudicus,

scudderi, Siud fasciatus, and Chloealtis cmispersa. Along the roads

were Hlpplscus ph<jenicopterus and Schistocerca alutacea, (PI.

XVIII., Fig. 1,) which latter liked to fly up into the oak brush

when disturbed. Calopferon term'uiale and C. reticulatum were

common. The stalks of Serophularia nodosa were loaded with

Cosmopepla cavnifex in June, and small oak sprouts had at that

time a great many small click-beetles {Limonms quercinus) on

leaves and stems.

The marginal sand ridge, with leaf-mold and a better de-

veloped forest (PI. XXI.,Fig. 2), had about the usual central Illi-

nois fauna for forest situations.

Finally, the long stretch of moist sandy shore (PI. XXIII.)

extending from Quiver Lake to Riverside Park, a distance of

about three miles, added new elements to the sand fauna, partly

due to the presence of the river and partly to the sand, and
seeming but doubtfully eligible to a place in these studies. The
river-shore-sand grasshopper, Trlmerotropis cifrina, whose habitat

extends in a slender strip along the southern seashore and up

each shore of our larger rivers, is here in evidence, as usual.



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Along the narrow strip of wave-washed beach at the foot of

the sand bluff were great numbers of tiger-beetles, Cicindela

ciqjrasceHS and C. /lirficoJlis, ^\^o Paraipffix cuculhdus. Bemhid-

lum was found along the water margins. Under the driftwood

were Chkenius sericeus, Patrobus longicornis, Platynus octopunc-

tatus, and other Carabidre, also Gryllus pennsylvaniciis. In the

drier sand higher up we have noted Tetragonoderus fasciatus

and Blapsthius interruptus. Under and about dead fish, turtles,

etc., are found Saprinus, Hister, Silpha, and CereijoH, often in

great numbers. Anthrax and Benibex are also common, fl3'ing

about on the dry sand. Among the insects on plants along the

sandy beach in June, and conspicuous by reason of their great

abundance, were the daddy-long-legs {Liobununi) on mulleins

and other plants, and Metachrowa angiisfulum, M. pjaraUeUiui,

and Melasoma Iappo)iica on willow. Even on straggling willows

and poplars among the sand hills inland (PI. XX., Fig. 1), both

species of Mefachroma were very numerous, and M. paraUelum

abounded also on a variety of plants. There is no previous

record of their occurrence this side of Kansas except that of

paralleling by Brendel ('87) in this same region. Disongcha

5-viffafa, very variable in markings, was also taken on willow

among the sand-hills.

Annotated List of Species.

The following list includes all species taken within the

limits of the western Illinois sand regions. No attempt to re-

strict it has been made, since few faunal lists have as yet been

published for Illinois. The determinations are my own except

as otherwise stated, and much time and pains have been taken

to make them accurate.

I am under obligations for help in securing determinations

to Dr. L. O.Howard, Professor Herbert Osborn,Mr. W. S, Blatch-

ley, Mr. A. L. Melander, Mr. E. S. G. Titus, and Mr. Frederick

Knab, and their cordial cooperation is gratefully acknowledged.

My friend and collaborator, Mr. Gleason, has helped me with

the plant names. Mr. J. J. Davis and Mr. R. 0. Johnson, of

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trip of June, 1905, have very generously permitted the free use

of their collections and notes in this connection. The fulness

of the records for Meredosia and the Moline Sand Hill are due

in no small degree to the keen discrimination and enterprising

activity of my held assistant, Mr. Frank Shobe. The extensive

collections and excellent library of the State Laboratory of

Natural History, and the Bolter Collection of Insects at the

University of Hlinois have been especially useful to me. The
entire series of specimens collected has been turned over to

the State Laboratory.

For each species the sand region localities and dates are

given, so far as known, and usually, in parenthesis, the number
of specimens taken, if more than one, followed by biological

notes or other items of interest. The systematic notes (unless

very brief), including descriptions of new species, appear under

a separate heading at the end of the list, and are referred to by

number. Finally, the distribution of the species in Hlinois

outside the sand regions is given, data being derived from the

State Laboratory collections, the Bolter Collection, and pub-

lished lists, supplemented by my own observations. The source

is cited only in case of the Bolter Collection and published lists.

The exact known distribution of the rarer species is given in

full; the more common ones are followed simply by "HI.", or, if

known to be of general occurrence throughout the state, by "All

HI." The most important of the published lists referred to are

those of Mr. Charles Robertson for Carlinville, of Dr. Bren-

del ('87) for Peoria, of the Chicago group of entomologists

(see Kwiat,'05), of McNeill ('91—Hlinois Orthopfera), otMelsin-

der {m—MidllUdce), of Wolcott ('95-'00—central Illinois Cole-

optera) , a,nd oi H. Garman {^^2—Amphibia and Reptilia. The
distribution outside of Illinois of species of restricted range has

already been given under "Geographical Distribution".

The main Illinois Valley sand region (see map) extends

from our southernmost locality, Meredosia, which is about

eighty-five miles north and a little west of St. Louis, to near Pe-

oria, about an equal distance northeast of Meredosia. Our
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valley, northern Illinois, about eighty miles northwest of Peo-

ria. Collections in the Illinois River area are cited from Tehe-

ran, at the eastern border of this area, fifteen miles east of Ha-

vana, from Pekin,ten miles below Peoria, from Matanzas Lake,

eight miles below Havana, and from the sand beach of Thomp-
son Lake, in Fulton county, opposite Havana; but especially

from six principal regions in the vicinity of Havana, desig-

nated by numerals. Those who care for topographical rather

than geographical detail may note that H.l, 2, and 3 are the

three principal blow-sand areas, counting from north to south

and in order of sandiness; that H.3 has a large admixture of

areas of black-jack growth; that H.4 and 5 represent forest on

sand; 4, the n'ewer growth (black-jack), with some open ground;

and 5, the older and more varied forest, approaching ordinary

Illinois forest conditions with a little open sandy ground; and

that H.6 is the immediate sandy river beach and lake beach

along the western margin of the sand plain. For convenient

reference, the principal details with regard to these various

localities are summarized as follows:

H.l = the Devil's Neck, ten miles north of Havana, open

land, a large area of barren sands and blowouts, approached by

sandy roads. (See p. 197, and PI. XII., Fig. 1; XIV., Fig. 1;

XX., Fig. 1.)

H.2 = the Devil's Hole, two miles east of Havana, similar

to H.l but smaller. (See PI. XIII.; XIX., Fig. 1; XX., Fig. 2.)

II.3 = a large area of rolling sand-hills with occasional

blowouts, considerable waste sandy open land, and areas of

scrubby black-jack forest, lying south and southeast of Havana.

(See PI. VIII.-XL, XV.-XVII.)

H.4 -^ the east margin of the sandy postglacial island north-

east of Havana near the center of which is the Devil's Neck.

This margin is mostly covered with black-jack. (See PI.

XXL, Fig. 1.)

H.5==the marginal sand ridge just above Havana, mostly

covered by comparatively well-developed forest growth. (See

p. 198, and PI. XXL, Fig. 2.

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H.6 = the sandy beach, moist near the water level, extend-

ing for a mile or two along the river and lakes just above and

below Havana. (See p. 198, and PL XXIII.)

H.m. = miscellaneous situations about Havana.

Mer. = a very sandy small area, with blowouts, some black-

jack, sand-pit, and adjacent sandy river bank, just south of

Meredosia, 111. (See p. 198.)

Mol. = the Moline Sand Hill, on the left bank of the Rock

River near Moline, with a small summit area of waste sand

land, and blowouts, adjoining a close-cropped sandy pasture.

(See p. 198.)

For the sake of brevity, Je., Au., and S. are used respectively

for June, August, and September.

ArachnidA.

Phidippus insolens Hentz (Banks, det). H.l, 4, Mer. ; Je. 6, 7,

Au. 20, 22, 29. (8) Blow-sand and dune tops. Mimics fe-

male Mutillidm.

Acrosoma rugosa Emerton (Banks, det.). H.5, Au. 12.

Wala mitratus Hentz (Banks, det.) H.2, Au. 18.

Tetragriatha lahoriosa Hentz (Banks, det.). H 2, Au. 18.

Xysticus gulosus Keys (Banks, det.). H.2, 4; Je. 6 (immature),

Au. 18. (5)

Liohunum, vittatum Say (Banks, det.). H.2, 6; Je. 9, Au. 12, 18,

19. (11) Abundant on mullein along river bank All 111.

Tromhidium locustarum Riley. H.2, Au, 19. (2) On Melanoplus

angustipennis.

Platyptera.

Termes Havipes Kollar. H.2, 5; Au. 17,19. (8) Common on the

under part of sticks and logs on sand. Observed swarming

from a house in Havana. 111., especially southward.

Orthoptera.

Ischnoptera incequalis Sauss.-Zehntn. H. 1,2, 4, (), H.m.; Je. 7, 8,

9, 12, Au. 18, 19, 20, 22. (11) All 111., common; Iowa.

Blatta orientalis Linn. H.m., Je. 18, 25. (2) 111.

Bacunculus hlatchleyi Gaud. H.l, Au. 22. (2) On dry prairie

vegetation. All 111., not rare; L. Geneva, Wis. (Note 1)

Tettix arenosus Bucm. H.6, H.m.; Apr. 13, May 6, Je. 8, 9. (6)

All HI.



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Paratettix cucullatus Burm. H 6, Mer. ; Je. 9, Au. 29. Nymphs,
Je. 8, 9. (9) Moist shores. All 111.

Mermiria neomexicana Thom. H 2, 4, Teheran ; Au. 18, 19, 20, S.

2. Nymph, Au. 17. (38) With the next species amonji; long

bunch-grass {Panicuni viy'gatiDii) in old blowout between
dunes. No other Illinois records.

Mermiria hivittata Serv. H.l, 2, 3, 4, Mer. ; Au. 12, 13, 14, 18, 22,

30, S. 2. (31) With the preceding; also in patch of Cracca.

Tamaroa (S. 111.), long grass on summit of Mississippi R. bluflP

at Chautauqua, 111., near Grafton, July 20.

Syrhula admirahUis Uhl. H.2, 3, 4, Teheran, Mol.; Au. 12, 17, 18,

S. 8. Nymphs, Au. 19, 20. (17) All 111., dry grassy ground.

Eritettix virgatus Scudd. H.4, Je. 6. (Note 2)

Amphitornus hicolor Thom. H.l, 4; Au.. 20, 22. Nymph, Je. 7,

23. (8) Grassy dune summits near middle of postglacial

island. No other Illinois record.

Orphulella speciosa Scudd. H.4, Mol.; Au. 20, S. 8. (61) Com-
mon in short dense grass on sand at Moline Sand Hill; rare

in Havana region. All 111., especially on dry soils; taken at

lights.

Orphulella pelidna Barm. Mer., Au. 30. Moist bottom of sand-

pit. Swales between sand ridges, Waukegan.
Dichromorpha viridis Scudd. H.I, 2, 5; Au. 12, 17, 18, 22. (7)

Moist grassy bottoms of old blowouts; old forest. AU 111.

Chloealtis conspersa Harr. H.3, 4; Au. 14, 17, 20. (5) C. 111.

and northward.

Ageneotettix scudderi Brun. H.l, 2, 3, 4, Mol., Mer. ; Au. 12, 13,

17, 18, 22, 29, 30, S. 2, 8. Nymphs, Je. 5, 7. (91) Abun-
dant in all blow-sand areas. "Near Moline, where it seems to

be confined to a few sandy hilltops along the Mississippi R."
(McNeill). Waukegan, sandy ridges near L. Michigan.

(Note 3)

Mecostethus lineatus Scudd. Matanzas L., July 6. At margin of

sand plain, probably in bottom-land. In bog. Lake Co., III.,

Au. 13.

Mecostethus platypteras Scudd. Teheran, Je. 22. Low ground on
glacial flood-plain. Champaign, July 31, dense grass in wet
ground. III. (Coll. O. S. Westcott). Hitherto known only from
New England, but these are typical examples of the species as

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Arphia sulphurea Fabr. H.l, 4, 6; Je. 6, 7, 9, 23. (10) Open'

woods, all 111., early summer.

Arphia xanthoptera Germ. H.l, 4, Mer. ; Au. 20, 22, 30. (5)

Roadsides, in black-jack. Dry woods, all 111.

Encoptolophus sordidus Burm. MoL, S. 8. 111., especially north-

ward, on dry open ground.

Hippiscus tuherculatus Palis. H.4, Je. 6. 0. 111. and northward

;

infrequent.

Hippiscus ph(x,nicopterus Germ. H.l, 4; Je 5, 6, 7, 23. (43)

Common on grassy dunes and along roadsides in black-jack

in early summer, with the next species. 8. 111., in dry open

woods on hillsides.

Hippiscus haldemanii Scudd. H.l, 2, 4; Je. 6, 7, 8, 23. (21) Com-

mon in the sand region, associated with the preceding species.

On Rock Island (McNeill, ttihercula tus, £de Scndder). The

intercalary vein in Hippiscus, especially in this species and

phosnicopterus, is quite prominent and bears a row of minute

tubercles, as in Mecostethus ; and the upper carina of the in-

ternal face of the hind femur is rubbed against it, causing a

distinct rasping stridulation. The sound may be easily pro-

duced in this way in freshly killed individuals. In all the

(EdipodincB of this list the same structure of the intercalary

vein occurs, and presumably also the same habit of stridula-

tion by means of it when not flying. Regan ('03) has de-

scribed and figured (PL I., Fig. 3) this method of stridulation

in Psophus. Morse ('96) has noted the general occurrence of

this structure in the CEdipodince, and has seen and heard the

stridulation in Circotettix verruculatus and Encoptolophiis sor-

didus.

Hippiscus suturalis Scudd. Mol. (McNeill, rugosiis).

Hippiscus rugosus Scudd. H.l, 2, 3, Teheran, H.m. ; Au. 13, 17,

]8, 22. Nymph, Au. 18. (16) Lower slopes of dunes. All

111.

Bissosteira Carolina Linn. H.2, 4; Au. 12, 18. Nymph, Au. 20.

(3) Roadsides. All 111., bare ground of roads, etc.

Spharagemon holli Scudd. H.l, 2, 3, 4, Mer. ; Au. 13, 17, 20, 22, 30.

(7) In older dry forest, occasional in black-jack. All 111.

Spharagemon wyomhigianum Thom. H.l, 2, 3, 4, 5, Mol., Mer.;

Je. 23, Au. 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 29, 30, S. 2, 8. Nymph,



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Au. 20. (76) Abundant everywhere on sand in open ground.

Waukegan, sandy ridges near L. Michigan.

Mestohregma thomasi Oaud. H.l, 2, 3, 5, Mol. ; Au. 17, 18, 19,

22, S. 2, 8. (13) Common on the dunes. Throughout S. 111.,

on dry barren ground. ( Trachyrhachis thomasi in text.)

Psinidia fenestralis Serv. H.l, 2, 3, 4, 5, Mol., Mer. ; Au. 12, 13,

14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 29, 30, S. 2, 8. Nymph, Au. 18. (85)

Abundant everywhere on the blow-sand; wings rose-red.

Waukegan, sandy ridges near L. Michigan. (Note 4)

Trimerofrojns citrina Scudd. H.2, 6, Mer.; Au. 12, 29, S. 5. (12)

Sandy shores of Ohio, Mississippi, and Illinois rivers in Illi-

nois: one taken at Devil's Hole. "N. 111." (Note 5)

Schistocerca americana Drury. H.m. Seen with, Zo6'?^«2!zV/r(' in soft

grass in moist bottom of old blowout. ('. and S. 111.

Schistocerca alutacea Harr. H.2, 3, 4, Mol., Mer.; Au. 14,15,37,

18, 20, 29,30, S. 2, 8. Nymph, Au. 20. (69) (Common

along the margins of black-jack forest and about thickets and

bunch-grass ; roadsides. Dry soils of the Illinoian glaciation

in S. 111., and a few restricted localities in N. 111. ; swales be-

tween sand ridges, Waukegan.
( 'aoijjylacanfha acutipennis Scudd. H.4, Mer.; Au. 20, 30. (2)

Found associated with the next species, but in much fewer

numbers. Perhaps only a dark grayish variety of it. Clay (^o.

Campylacantha oUvacea Scudd. H.l, 2, 4, Mer. ; Au. 18, 20, 21, 22,

29,30, S. 2. Nymph, Au. 18. (19) On the grassy dunes,

moderately common. Abundant on Ambrosia hidentata on

the dry soils of the Illinoian glaciation across southern Illinois.

H-esperotettix pratensis Scudd. H.3, Au. 18. (17) On a patch of

Euthamia {Solidago) in a basin among sand-hills. Taken in

southern Illinois along the I. C. R. R. ; swales among sand

ridges, Waukegan; long grass on summit of Mississippi R.

bluff at Chautauqua, 111., near Grafton, July 20.

Hesperotettix speciosus Scudd. H.l, 2, 3; Au. 18, 22, S. 2. Nymph,

Au. 22. (4) Occasional with Caiapylacautha olivacea. Tak€;n

on the dry soil of the Illinoian glaciation in southern Illinois.

Melanophis Havidus Scudd. H.l, 2, 3, 4, 5, Mol., Mer. ; Au. 12, 13,

14, 18, 19, 20, 22, 29, 30, S. 2, 8. Nymphs, Au. 17, 18, 19, 20.

(51) Common everywhere in blowouts and on very sandy

ground. Not taken elsewhere in Illinois. Associated by

McNeill with the sand-bur ( Cenchrus), but it is apparently an



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accidental relation, and not invariable. Mr. J. D. Hood has

shown me examples taken near Lone Rock, S. W. Wis.

Melanoplus atlmiis Riley. H.l, 2, 3, 4, 5, Teheran, Mol. ; Je. 6, 7,

8, Au. 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, S. 5, 8. (72) Moderately

sandy ground. Dry sandy or gravelly places in N. and 0.

111.
;
general and abundant in 8. 111.

Melanoplus impudicus Scudd. H.3, 4; Au. 14, 17, 20. (4) Occa-

sional in black-jack. Common on high rocky slopes of Ozark

Ridge in S. 111.

Melanoplus scudderi Uhl. H.l, 3, 4, Mer. ; Au. 17, 20, 22, 30. (6

)

Roadsides in black-jack, and occasional elsewhere on sand.

All 111.

Melanoplus fasciatus Barnst. H.4, Au. 20. (11) On dry Hoor of

fallen leaves in black-jack. Also in similar localities in east-

ern and southern Illinois.

Melanoplus femur-ruhrum DeG. H.l, 2, 3, 4, Teheran ; Au. 15, 17,

18, 20, 22, S. 2. (32) On the level areas with coating of soil.

All 111., least common in southern part.

Melanoplus angustipennis Dodge. H.l, 2, 3, 4, Mol., Mer.; Je. 23,

Au. 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 29, 30, S. 2, 8. Nymph,
Au. 19. (122) Very abundant everywhere on waste sandy

land. Commoner than Aavidus^ even at the Moline Sand Hill,

but not recognized by McNeill as distinct from his cenchri

{flavidus). Waukegan, sandy ridges near L. Michigan.

Melanoplus macneilli^ n. sp. Mol., S. 8. (19) With angustipennis

and Havidus at edge of large blowout at east end of the sand

hill. (Note 6)

Melanoplus minor Scudd. H.l, Je. 7. (20) In sandy corner

of close-cropped grassy pasture in early summer. No other

Illinois record.

Melanoplus luridus Dodge. H.2, 3, 4, Mer; Au. 14, 17, 18, 20, 30.

(31) Common in black jack. Also on dry, barren, high,

wooded hilltops in Illinois, and, at Waukegan, on sandy ridges

near L. Michigan.

Melanoplus diiferentialis Uhl. H.2, 3; Au. 15. Nymph, Au. 18.

(2) Roadside, level ground. All 111.

Melanoplus hivittatus femoratus Burm. H.l, 2, Teheran; Au. 13,

17, 18, 22. (6) Low ground, roadsides. All 111.

Phmtaliotes nebrascensis Thorn. H.4, Au. 20, nymphs and adults.

(7) Rock Island region (McNeill, '91, Pezotettix autumnalis)

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Dry sandy ground ; also along swales between sand ridges

near Waukegan.
Scudderia texensis Sauss.-Fict. H.2, 8, 4; Au. 14, 17, 18, 20. (6)

Lower slopes of dunes, not uncommon. All 111.

Sciidderia furcata Brunn. H.3, 4; Au. 18. Nymph, Au. 20. (2)

All 111.

Amblycorypha uhleri Stal. Mer., Au. 30, in damp sand-pit. S. 111.

Conocephalus rohustus Scudd. H.2, 4, 5; Au. 11, 12, 18, 20. (4)

Waste sandy land. Observed resting, head downward, on a

grass stem, closely resembling a grass leaf. Its long-continued,

penetrating shrill call is heard on all sides at dusk. Dry
places in C. and S. 111.

XipUdium strictum SguM. H.2, 4, Mol.; Au. 18,20, S. 8. (7)

One of the two from the Moline Sand Hill was long-winged.

Common in damp grassy bottoms of old blowouts. 111.

Xiphidiuni hrevlpenne Scudd,? Nymph, H.4, Au. 20. 111.

Orchelimiim^ sp. Nymph, 13.4, Au. 20.

Ceuthophihis^ sp. H.l, Je. 7. Injured specimen; taken under fal-

len tree in blowout.

Udeopsylla rohusta Hald. H.2, 5; May 17, Je. 8. (2) Under logs.

No other Illinois records. (Note 7)

Nemohius fasciatus mttatus Harr. H.l, 4, Mol., Mer.; Au. 20, 22,

30, S. 8. (9) On sandy ground and elsewhere. All 111.

(Note 8)

Nemohius carolinus Scudd. Thompson L., S. 1. (6) On moist

sandy beach under sticks among trees. All 111., in damp
woods.

Grylltis ahhreviatus Serv. H.6, S. 5. (15) Under driftwood on

dry sandy shore. 111., in fall.

Gryllus pennsylvanicus Burm. Short-winged form, H.l, 2, 4, ; Je.

6, 7, 8, 9, Au. 20. (13) Long-winged form, H.2, H.m. ; Je.

7, 8. (6) Under sticks, boards and leaves on sand, and at

electric light. 111., mostly in summer.

Gryllus personatus Uhl. (Blatchley, det.). H.l, 2; Au. 19,22.

(3) Under logs in blowouts. Nymphs only, but mature

enough for determination. No other Illinois records.

(Ecanthus niveus DeG. H.4, nymph, Je. 23. 111.

(Ecanth us pi7ii Beut. H.6, S. 4. (2) 111.

(Ecanthus 4.-punctatus Beut. Mol.,S. 8. (4) On vegetation. 111.

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Hemiptera.

Cicada dorsata Say. H.4, Au. 20. (2) Flying on open grassy sum-

mit of sand ridge, Tamaroa and IJrbana.

Cicada marginata Say. MoL, S. 8. S. 111., common.

Cicada tihicen Linn. H.m., Au. 17. 111.

Tettigia hieroglyphica Say. H.l, H.m. ; Je. 23, July 2. (2) Entered

car window while train was passing through sand region. No
other Illinois record.

Ghlorochara Gonica S^j. H.2, 4; Au. 19, 20. (2) 111.

Scolops grossus Uhl. H.2, Au. 12, 18. (4) 111.

Phikenus lineatus Linn. H.4, Je. 6. (3) On vegetation of waste

open sandy land. No other Illinois record.

Lepyronia gihhosa Ball. H.l, 4; Je. 6, 23, Au. 20. (7) On Callirhoe

triangulata, etc. Also from Dayton (N. 111.). A sand-hill

species in Nebraska.

Cercopidxf, sp., immature. H.l, 4, 6; Je. 6, 9, 23. (11) Numerous
on bases of radical leaves and stems of Callirhoe triangulata,

each in mass of froth. Perhaps young of preceding species.

DeUocephahis melsheimeri Fitch. H.4, Je. 6. (2) 111.

Agallia sanguinolenta Prov. H.4, Je. 6. (2) 111.

Ceresa huhalus V^hv. H.5, Teheran ; Au. 17. (2) 111.

StictocepJuda lutea y^^W.. H.4, Je. 6. 111.

Ophiderma salamandra Fairm. H.4, Je. 6. 111.

Campylenchia riirvata Yahr. H.5, 6 ; Je. 9, Au. 17. (2) 111.

Lecaniiim, s-p., immsitme. H.2, Au. 19. (6) Common on stems of

Cyclolotna air iplicifolium in road.

Diommatus congrex Uhl. (Osborn, det.). H.6, Je. 8.

Tinicephaliis simplex Uhl. Teheran, Au. 17. Vegetation along

railroad. 111.

Malacocoris irroratus Say. Teheran, Au. 17. (2) With the preceding

species. 111.

Lygus pratensis Linn. H.2, Au. 19. 111.

Phyto(-oris colon Say. (Osborn, det.). H.4, Je. 5. (8) On plants

by roadside.

Resthenia insitiva ^diy . H.l, 2, 4; Je. 6, 8, 23. (5) On Jihus aro-

matica. 111.

Nahis ferus Linn. H.4, Au. 18, 19. (2) 111.

NaUs elongatus, n. sp. H.6, Je. 9. (Note 9)

Sinea confusa Caud. MoL, S. 8. (2) Possibly aV. diadema^ as

the males of these two species are not readily ^separable, and



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no females were taken. The abdominal margin is nearly en-
tire, scarcely undulate.

Acholla multispinosa DeG. H.2, Au. IS, 19. (2) 111.

ZeluH socim Uhl. H.l, 2, 3, 4, 6; Je. 8, 9, Au. 12, 15, 18, 19, 20, 22.

(32) Common on Rhus aroinatica in June and on Mesadenia
atriplicifolia flowers in August. Seen eating Phormia ter-

rwnovce. No other Illinois records.

Zelus renardi Kol. H.4, Je. (5. In black-jack. N. 111. (Bolter
Coll.).

Zelus luridus Stal. H.6, Je. 9. 111.

Melanolestes picipes H.-8chf. Teheran, Au. 17, nymph. Under
board by railroad. 111.

Ai'advs aciitvs Say. H.l, Je. 7. Also from Oobden and Villa Kidge
(S. 111.)

P/iUmata fascmta dray ( trolffi Stal). H.2, Au. 13, 18. (10) Oc-
casional on sand plants. IIJ.

Eiuhlefhis gi'lseux Worn. H.2, 3; Au. 14, 19. (2) 111.

Sp/iraytstk'us nehulosus Yq\\. MoL, S. 8. (2) 111.

Llgyroeor'ts consfru-fus Say, H.l, Je. 7. 111.

Ligiji'ocorls st/lvesfn's Stal. MoL, S. 8. 111.

Phlegyas a?mulicrus Stsil. (Osborn, det. ). H.l, Je. 5.

BUssuH leucopterus Say. Teheran, Je. 22. Serious injury to corn

on very sandy land. 111.

Xysiii.s angustatuH Uhl. H.m. 111.

Lygd'iis hicrucls Say. H.2, Au. 12, 13, 18. (18) Common on flow-

ers of MeH((denia afrlplieit'olid . III. On Mesadenia reni-

r'o/'m/'s at Oarlinville ( Rob.).

Lyga'Ks ti/rr/'n/.s Fabr. H.2, Au. 13. 111.

Lygceus kalniH Stal. H.l, 2, 3, 5, 6, Teheran; Apr. 14, Je. 7, 8, Au.

13, 15, 17, 18. (17) On Asclepias rornafi. 111.

Jalysvs spinosus Say. H.m., July 12. 111.

Se/'inef/ia triviffafa SsiV. H.m., Je. 23, Au. 12. (12) On box-elder

tree. 111.

Sfarhyocneniis apiealts Dall. H.l, 2, 3, 5, Mol., Mer. ; Je. 7, 8, 23,

Au. 12, 14, 18, 22, 30. (69) In blowouts and on nearly bare

sand. Excessively abundant at Devil's Hole one sunny day,

but the next day, which was rainy, only one was found—under

a cow-chip. Examples were seen apparently feeding on some
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Alydus pilosulus YL.-^Qhi. H.l, 2, MoL, Mer. ; Je. 7, Au. 18, 30,

S. 8. Nymphs, Au. 18. (21) Sandy ground among plants.

On dry ground elsewhere in Illinois. The immature forms re-

semble ants.

Alydns conspersufi Mont. MoL, S. 8. With the preceding species.

Urbana.

Alydus euriivus Say. H.3, 4, 6, MoL; Je. 5, 6, Au. 18, S. 8. Sup-

posed nymph, Je. 6, 9. (7) With A. pilosulus. 111.

Megalotomiis 5-spinosus Say. H.l, 3, 4; Je. 6, 23, Au. 17, 20. (6)

111.

Catorhintha mendica Stal (Osborn, det.). H.2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Je. 6, 8,

9, 12, 24, July 22, Au. 18. (26) Common on RMis aromatica^

AlUonia nyctaginea^ and a variety of other plants, especially

along roadsides. Also from Camp Point (Adams Co.), Dix-

on, and Galena.

Chariesterus antennator Fabr. H.2, 3; Au. 12, 15. (3) On Eii-

phorhia corollata. Tamaroa, Villa Ridge and Anna (S. 111.).

Podisus maculiventris Say. H.5, Au. 17. 111.

Perillus cit'cumcuictus Stal. H.l, 2, 4; Je. 6, 8. Nymphs, Je. 5, 8,

23. (21) On Rhus aromatica., not uncommon. Makanda
(S. Ill ), and "N.Ill."

Thyanta custator Fabr. H.2, Au. 18, 19. (2) 111.

Cosmopepla carnifex Fabr. H.4, Je. 6. (33) On Scrophularia nodosa

and other plants in black-jack, clustered along stems. 111.

NeoUiglossa sulcifrons Stal. H. 4, Je. 6. (2) On vegetation of

grassy open dunes. Dry hillsides in S. 111.

HymenciTcys nervosa Say. H.4, Je. 6. 111.

Cwnus delius Say. H.4, Je. 6. (3) 111.

Euschistus Ussilis Uhl. H.4, Je. 6. 111.

Euschishis variolarius Pal. Beauv. H.2, 3, MoL ; Au. 14, 18, S. 8.

(7) 111. (Note 10)

Mormidea higens Fabr. H.4, 5; Je. 5, 6, Au. 17. (4) 111.

Pentat07na juniperina Linn. H.l, 2, 3, 4; Je. 6, Au. 13, 14, 18, 22.

Nymphs, Je. 8 and in August. (35) Common on Opuntia
humifusa^ puncturing the tip of the fruit. Eureka and Mas-
coutah; Waukegan, on dwarf cedar {Juniperus sabi?ia) along
sand ridges near L. Michigan.

Peribalus limholarius Stal. H.4, H.m. ; Au. 20. (3) 111.



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Brochymena J^-pustulata Fabr. H.2, Je. 8. On trunks of elm along

roadsides. III.

Sehhnis cinctus Fal. Beauv. H.2, on Monarda panctaia. Savanna

and Galena (N. 111.), on Staehy,^ and sweet clover.

Pangceus hilineatus Say. H.2, Je. 8. 111.

Cychius ohliquus Uhl. H.l, An. 22. "N. 111.''

Cydnus, sp. {^thus). H.2, Au. 19. (9) Nymphs under sticks

in sandy hollow at lee of dune, under tree.

Honmmus cvneifron.H Say. H.4, Je. 6, Au. 20. (5) Swept from

long grass on sand near black-jack. N. 111. (Bolter Coll.)

;

Lake Co., 111., Au. 3. (Note 11)

Corimelcena clliata Uhl. H.l, 2, 3; Je. 7, Au.l2, 18. Very abundant

in blow-sand about grass roots in June ; also, on plant stems in

August. No other Illinois records.

Neuroptera.

Chrysopa plorahunda Fitch. H.2, Au. 18, 19. (3) 111.

CJirysopa oculata Say. H.2, Au. 12, 13. (3) 111.

Cryptoleon consperstim Ramb. H.4, Je. 5, 6. (4) Sand ridges near

L. Michigan, Waukegan, 111., Au. 22.

Cryptoleon signatum Hag. (Currie, det.). H.l, 2, 3, 4, H.m. ; Je.

6, 7, 8, Au. 18, 19, 21, 22. (12) No other Illinois records.

Brachynemurvs ahdominalis Say (Adams, det.). H.m., August.

Not rare in September. 111.

Bvachynemurus irregularis Currie (Currie, det.). H.m., Au. 21.

No other Illinois record.

Myrmeleoii immaculatus occidentalis Currie (Currie, det.). H.4,

H.m.; Au. 20, 21. (4) No other Illinois records.

COLEOPTERA.

Cicindela Scutellaria lecontei Hald. H.l, 3, 4, 6, H.m., MoL,

Mer. ; April, Je. 6, 28, Au. 18, 20, 22, 30, S. 4, 5, 6, 8. (58)

Common on bare sand, especially in blowouts and roadways.

Chicago; "N. Ill"; Peoria (Brendel); Fort Sheridan (Kwiat,

'05) ; Waukegan.
Cicindela purpurea Umhalis Klug. Mol., S. 8. Rock Island ; "N.

111."

Cicindela forinosa geuei'osa Dej. H.l, 2, 3, 4, 5, Mol., Mer., H.m.;
Apr. 13, Je. 6, 7, 19, 23, 24, Au. 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 22, 29,

30, S. 4, 8. (45) Common with C. scutellaris lecontei. "N.
111."; Peoria (Brendel).



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Gicindela vulgaris Say. Mol.,Mer.; Au. 30, S. 8. (3) 111.

Oicindela repanda Dej. H.6, MoL, Mer., Thompson L. ; Je. 8, 9,

Au. 14, 29, S. 8. (68) Moist sandy shores; one example in

blowout at Moline Sand Hill. 111.

Gicindela 12-g'uttata Dej. Mol., S. 8. One example, taken in

blowout at the Sand Hill. 111.

Gicindela Mrticollis Say. H.6, Je. 19. (2) Mud banks; sandy

beach of L. Michigan, Waukegan. 111.

Gicindela punctulata Fabr. H.l, 2, Matanzas L. ; Je. 23, Au. 18,

22, 23. (6) Roadways and fields, if not very sandy ; frequent

Au. 24 on beach of L. Michigan at Waukegan, cast up by

waves. 111.

Gicindela cuprascens Lee. H.6, Mer. ; Au. 10, 29. (4) Moist

sandy margins of Illinois, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers, and

L. Michigan, in 111.

Gicindela lepida Dej. H.2, 3, Au. 14. In blowouts; not common.
Savanna, on sandy island in Mississippi R. ; N. 111. (Bolter

Coll).

Garahus sylvosus Say. H.2, Je. 8. (3) Under boards along lane

in level ground. N. 111. (Bolter Ooll.) ; (. 111.; Peoria

(Brendel).

Galosoma externum Say. H.2, Je. 8. 111.

Galosoma scrutator Fabr. H.m. (2) 111.

Elaplirus ruscarius Say. H.6, Je. 8, 9. (2) 111.

Pasimachus elongatus Lee. H.l, H.m., Teheran; Je. 7, Au. 17.

(4) 111.

Bembidiurn Icevigatum Say. H.6, Je. 9. (3) 111.

Patrohus longicornis Say. H.6, Mer.; Je. 8, 9, Au. 29, S. 5. (10)

111.

Pterostichus sayi Brulle H.6, Je. 8. (3) 111.

Pterostichus lucuhlandus Say. H.2, Je. 8. 111.

Pterostichus caudicalis Say. H.6, H.m.; May 6, 15. (3) 111.

Pterostichus erythropus Dej. H.6, Je. 9. 111.

Amara cupreolata Putz. H.m., Apr. 13. 111.

Loxandrus hrevicollis Lee. H.6, May 6. "111."

Diplochila impressicollis Dej. H.m., April. 111.

Platy7ius extensicollis Say. H.6, Je. 9. 111.

Platynus decorus Say. H.6, Thompson L. ; Feb. 26, May 6, S. 1.

(4) 111.

Platynus octopunctatus Fabr. H.6, Je. 8. (6) 111.



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Platynus placidus Say. H.6, Je. 12. 111.

Zuphium longicolle Lee. H.m.
Tetragonodenis fasciatus 'Rdildi. H.5, 6; Je. 12, 22, July 22. (8)

Dry sand of river banks. Grafton, Quincy, Savanna; Peoria

(Brendel).

Lebia scapularis Dej. Matanzas L., Au. 23. 111.

Callida purpurea Say. Teheran, Je. 22. Peoria (Brendel).

Chlcenius erythropics Germ. H.6, H.m. ; May 6, 21. (3) 111.

Chlcenius sericeus Forst. H.6, Thompson L. ; May 6, Je. 8, 9, S. 1.

(11) Moist shores, under driftwood. 111.

Chlcenius prashuis Dej. H.6, Matanzas L., Thompson L. ; Je. 9,

Au. 23, S. 1. (8) 111.

Chlcenius pennsylvanicus Say. H.6, H.m., Matanzas L., Thomjjson

L. ; Feb. 26, April, May 6, Au. 23, S. 1. (6) 111.

Chlcenius ivipunctifrons Say. H.6, May 6. 111.

Anomoglossus emarginatus Say. H.6, S. 5. (2) 111.

Codes cuprcmis Chaud. H.6, Matanzas L., Thompson L. ; Au. 6, 23,

S. 21, 24. (10) Pekin and Carmi.

Geopinus incrassatus Dej. H.l, 6, H.m. ; Apr. 13, Je. 7,8, Au. 22.

(10) Under sticks in blowout, and at electric lights. 111.

Seems to prefer sandy places.

Nothopus zahroides Lee. H.l, 2, 3, H.m. ; Au. 14, 18, 19, 22, S. 16.

(11) A common species under boards and logs on blow-sand

and in blowouts. Many were seen in such situations at Devil's

Neck June 7, but all were dead. 111. (Bolter Coll.) ; C. 111.

;

found also in the West on sandy stretches, fide Wickham
(Wolcott).

Cratacanthiis duhius Beau v. H.l, Au. 22. Common under sticks

and boards in blowout at Devil's Neck. One found captured

by a tiger-beetle, Cicindela formosa generosa. 111.

Harpalus erraticus Say. MoL, S. 8. (11) Under sticks and cow-

chips at edge of pasture on the Sand Hill, in company with

another pallid species, H. testaceus. Illinois R. valley in La
Salle Co. ;

Quincy. Inhabits sandy places.

Harpalus caliginosus Fabr. H.l, 3, 4, Mol. ; Au. 14, 17, 20,

22. (12) Common under boards on sand. 111.

Harpalus faunus Say. Mol., S. 8, 111.

Harpalus herhivagus Say. H.l, Mol. ; Je. 7, S. 8. (2) 111.

Harpalus testaceus Lee. H.l, Mol. ; Au. 22, S. 8. (2) Under boards



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in blowout at Devil's Neck, also with H. erraticus. S. 111.

(Bolter Coll.); E. Cairo, Ky. ;
Quincy, September.

Stenolophus ochropezus Say. H. 6, Thompson L. ; Apr. 14, Au. 14.

(3) 111.

Stenolophus dissimilis Dej. H.6, Feb. 26, S. 16. (4) 111.

Anisodactylus rusticus Say. H.l, 2, Mol., H.m. ; Apr. 13, Au. 18,

19, 20, S. 8. (17) Very common under boards and logs on sand,

especially in blowout at Devil's Neck. 111., generally

distributed.

Anisodactylus carhonarius Say. H.4, Au. 20. 111.

Anisodactylus discoideus Dej. H.6, Je. 8, 9. (11) A common
river-shore species under driftwood on sand. 111.

Anisodactylus haltimorensls Say. H.6, Je. 8. 111.

Anisodactyhts verticalis Lee. H.6, Je. 8. (2) 111. (Bolter Coll.)

;

Peoria (Brendel).

Anisodactylus piceus Lee. H.l, Au. 22. (6) Under boards in

blowout at Devil's Neck. 111.

Harpalini^ n. sp. Mol., S. 8. With Harpalus erraticus. (Note 12)

Sphoeridium scarahceoides Linn. Mol., S. 8. One specimen, with

Harpalus erraticus. Introduced on Atlantic coast and

spreading westward. Not previously reported west of the

lake shore at Chicago. It was found there by me last spring

also, Apr. 28, 1906, washed up by the waves in large numbers,

about 80 specimens being taken. (See also Kwiat, '05.)

Cercyon analis Payk. H.6, Je. 7. 111.

Silpha surinamensis Fabr. H.m., Je. 7. 111.

Silpha incequalis Fabr. H.6, Je. 8. (14) About carrion on sandy

shore. 111.

Silpha novehoracensis Forst. H.4, Je. 6. 111.

Staphylinus maculosus Grav. H.6, Je. 8. 111.

Staphylinus tomentosus Grav. H.6, May 6. 111.

Bledius fumatus Lee. Mer., Au. 29. 111., a common shore species.

Eustilhus apicalis Mels. H.6, Feb. 26. 111.

Hippodamia glacialis Fabr. H.4, Au. 20. 111.

Hippodamia convergens Guer. H.2, Au. 12. 111.

Neoharmonia venusta Mels. H.6, July 8, on willow. 111. (Bolter

Coll.).

Coccinella 9-notata Hbst. H.2, 3, H.m. ; Apr. 13, Au. 12, 18. (12)

On sand plants. 111.

Adalia hipunctata Linn. H.l, 6; Je. 8, 9, 23. (4) "111." (Bolter



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Coll., one specimen) ; Jacksonville, from correspondent.

Lately ('05, '06) seen occasionally about Urbana. Chicago

('06). No other Illinois records.

Hyperaspidius trimaculatiis Linn. H.4, Je. 6. No other Illinois

record. (Note 13)

Languria hicolor Fabr. H.2, Je. 8. (10) On stems of Mesadenia
atrlplicifolia, in which the larvfi? burrow. Also found thus

at Champaign. "111."; Normal; Peoria (Brendel).

Ischyj'us Jf^'punctatus Oliv. H.5, Je. 8, 111.

Attagenus piceus Oliv. H.m., Je. 8. 111.

Cryptorhopalum^ sp. H.4, Je. 6. (3)

Hister interruptus Beauv. H.6, Je. 8. (2) 111.

Ulster ahbreviatus Fabr. H.m. 111.

Saprinus ferrugineus Mars. H.4, Je. 6. No other Illinois record.

Saprinus fraternus Lee. H.6, Je. 8, 9. (15) Abundant, feeding

on dead fish along sandy shore. 111.

Saprinus patruelis Lee. H.l, Je. 7. "N. 111."

Tenehrioides mauritanica Linn. Teheran, Au. 17. In food stuffs.

Ptilodactyla serricollis Say. H.l, Je. 7. 111.

Lacon rectangularis Say. H.l, 4; Je. 5. (7) Common under boards

in dry sandy pasture. Grand Tower and Pekin, under boards

along banks of Mississippi and Illinois rivers respectively.

Peoria (Brendel).

Cardiophorus convexus Say. H.2, 4; Je. 5, 6, 8. (3) 111. (Bolter

Coll.).

Monocrepidius vespertinus Fabr. H.5, Teheran ; Je. 16, 22, July

22. (9) Anna and Grand Tower (S. 111.) ; Peoria (Brendel).

Melanotus commtuus Gyll. H.6, May 6 (larva). 111.

Melanotus infaustus Lee? H.l, 2; Je. 7, 8. (4) 111.

Zimonius qiiercinus Say. H.2, 4; Je. 6, 8. (43) Abundant on

oak sprouts in grove at foot of sand ridge. 111. (Bolter

Coll.).

Chrysohothris femorata Fabr. H.m. 111.

AcmcBodera tuhulus Fabr. H.l, H.m; Je. 28. (3) In flowers of

Opuntia and Chrysopsis. "N. III.", Galesburg, Hudson,

Cobden, Villa Ridge; Apr. 28, May 29, September; Peoria

(Brendel) ; Carlinville, on Hypoxys erecta (Kob.).

Agrilus egenus Gory. H.l, Je. 7. (2) 111.

Calopteron terminate Say. H.4, Au. 20. (4) With the next

species. 111. (Note 14)



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Calopteron reticulatum Fabr. H.l, 2, 4, MoL; Au. 19, 20, 22, S. 8.

(20) Common on plants at sides of roadway through black-

jack. 111. (Note 14)

Lucidota atra Fabr. H.4, Je. 6. 111.

Photuris pennsylvanica DeG. H.6, Je, 9. 111.

Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus DeG. H.2, Au. 12. 111.

Collops tricolor Say. H.l, 4, Je. 6, 23. (7) In Opuntia flowers.

Peoria (Brendel).

Anthocoiaus erichsoni Lee. H.6, Je. 12. (2) Villa Ridge.

Anthocomus^ sp. H.4, Je. 5.

Clerus thoracicus Oliv. H.4, Je. 6. Towanda, Villa Ridge, Peoria

(Brendel).

Hydnocera suhmuea Spin. H.4, Je. 6. 111. (Bolter Coll.).

Hydnocera pallipermis Say. H.5, Au. 12. "N. 111.", Pekin.

Lucanus placidus Say. H.l, 4, 6; Je. 6, 7, 9. (7) Coming out of

ground at dusk beneath shade trees along street of Forest

City. Chicago; Peoria (Brendel). (Note 15)

Canthon ni^ricornis Say. H.l, Teheran; Je. 22, Au. 22, (3) Un-
der dry animal remains in blowout at Devil's Neck. Peoria

(Brendel).

Canthon Icevis Drury. H.2, H.m. ; Je. 7. (8) Common along

roadways in level ground. 111.

Copris Carolina Linn. H.m. Ill

Onthophagus hecate Panz. H.l, 4; Je. 6, 7. (2) 111.

Onthophagus pennsylvanicus Harold. H.l, Je. 7. (9) Common
about horse droppings in road near Devil's Neck. 111.

Aphodius rubeolus Beauv. H.l, Je. 7. (2) With the preceding

species. C. 111.

Bolhocerus lazarus Fabr. H.m. 111.

Tj'ox scabrosus Beauv. H.l, Je. 7, Au. 22. With Canthon nigri-

cornis. No other Illinois record.
,

Trox sulerosus Fabr. H.m. 111.

Lachnosterna prunina Lee. H.l, Je. 7. "N. 111."; Peoria (Bren-

del).

Polyphylla hammondi Lee. H.5, Au. 17. Lying dead on bare

blow-sand. No other Illinois record.

Anomala hinotata Gyll. H.6, H.m.; Apr. 13, May 6, 21. (3) 111.

Strigoderma arhoricola Fabr. H.l, 2, 4; Je. 6, 7, 8, 23. (53) On
flowers of clover, rose, Opuntia humifusa^ and Monarda
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Ligyrus glhhosus DeG. H.m., Apr. 13. Electric light. (2) 111.

Ligyrus relictus Say. H.m., Je. 7. Electric light. 111.

Euphoria sepulcralis Fabr. H.2, 3, Mataiizas L. ; Au. 14, 16, 18,

30. (7) In tops of various herbaceous plants. Common in

southern Illinois.

TricUas piger Fabr. H.2, 4, 6; Je. 6, 8, 9. (3) On flowers of

wild rose. 111.

Parandra hrunnea Fabr. H.2, H.m. ; Au. 18. (3) Under log in

grove at Devil's Hole. 111., infesting the bases of fruit and
shade trees.

Orthosoma hrunneum Forst. H.m. 111.

PhysocneTnurn hrevilineum Say. H.6, Je. 12. 111.

Eomaleum sirnplicicolle Hald. H.m. No other Illinois record.

Batyle suturalis Say. H.4, Au. 20. 111.

Xylotrechus colonus Fabr. H.m. 111.

Neoclytus erythrocephalus Fabr. H.4, Pekin ; Je. 5, 6. (2) 111.

Typocerus velutinus Oliv. H.6, Je. 9. On willow. 111.

Typocerus sinuatus Newm. Teheran, Je. 22. Ill,

Mecas pergrata Say. H.l, 4; Je. 6, 23. (4) Dry soils of lUinoian

glaciation in southern Illinois.

Oherea tripimctata Swed. H.2, Je. 8. 111.

Tetraopes tetraophthalmus Forst. H.2, 4; Je. 6,8, July 1. (3) On
Asclepias cornuti. 111.

Tetraopes femoratus Lee. H.3, Matanzas L., Mol. ; Au. 15, 16, S.

9. (8) On Asclepias. 111.

Lema cornuta Fabr. H.2, 3; Au. 18, 19. (11) On leaves of Com-
melina virginica, gnawing the surface and causing whitened

streaks. Richardson ('92) describes a similar injury to this

plant by L. sayi. He found its eggs placed singly in the

folds of the central leaf about the flower stalk, and the

larvae,—which were white, with a black spot on the second

segment,—eating down an inch or two into the soft stalk.

Knaus ('01) found L. cornuta feeding on dock near sand-hills

in Kansas. Sand-dunes of N. W. Ind. (Kwiat '05).

Cryptocephalus Jf.-inaculatus Say. H.6, Je. 9. 111.

Cryptocephalus mntaMlis Mels. H.4, Au. 20. 111.

Pachybraohys puhescens Oliv. Teheran, Je. 22. 111.

Monachus ater Hald. H.4, Je. 6. (2) 111.

Monachus sajjonatus Fabr. H.4, Je. 6. (3) 111.

Graphops nehulosus Lee. H.4, Je. 6. (2) 111.



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Typophorus aterrinius Oliv. H.4, Je. 6. 111.

Metachroma angustulum Cr. H.2, 4, 6; Je. 5, 6,8, 9. (21) Abund-
ant on Carolina poplar, willow, (Enothera hiennis^ and other

plants, on sand-dunes and along the river shore. No other

Illinois records.

Metachro7na parallelum Horn. H.l, 2, 4, 6; Je. 6, 7,8,9. (30)

Very abundant on willow, (Enothera hiennis, and other plants,

in company with the preceding species. Peoria (Brendel).

Leptinotarsa 10-Uneata Sa3^ H.2, Au. 19. 111.

Zygogramma suturalis casta Hog. H.2, 4; Je. 5, Au. 18, 19. (4)

111.

Chrysomela aiiripennis Say. H.l, H.m. ; Je, 7, S. 29. (2) Nor-

mal, Galesburg, and Waterman, May, Je. 14, and August;

"N. 111."; 111. (Bolter Coll.). Sand-dunes of N. W. Ind.

(Kwiat '05).

Melasoma lappo7iica Linn. H.l, 6; May 21, Je. 7, 8, 9. (14) On
willows in sand-dune hollows and along river shore. 111.

Melasoma scripta Fabr. H.6, Je. 8, S. 4. (4) On willows along

river shore. 111.

Cerotoma trifurcata Forst. H.4, Je. 6. (4) 111.

Diabrotica 12-punctata Oliv. H.2, Je. 8, Au. 12, 13, 18, 19. (5)

111.

Diabrotica longicornis Say. H.2, Teheran; Au. 17, 18. (4) 111.

Oalerucella notulata Fabr. H.4, Je. 6, Au. 20. (3) 111.

Blepharida rhois Forst. H.l, 2, 4; Je. 5, 6, 8, 23. (52) Larvae, Je.

5. Common on Rhus aromatica^ sometimes defoliating it. 111.

(Edionychis vians 111. H.6, Je. 9. 111.

(Edionychis thyamoides Cr. H.4, Je. 6. (2) 111.

Disonycha pennsylvanica 111. H.l, 4, 6; May 6, Je. 6,7, 8, 9. (6)
On willow. 111.

Disonycha 5-mttata Say. H.l, Je. 7, Au. 22. (3) On willow in

dune hollows. Same situation, Waukegan, near L. Michigan.
111.

Disonycha triangularis Say. H.6, Je. 8. 111.

Haltica fuscomnea Mels. H.2, 4, 5; Je.6, 8, July 22, Au. 12. (14)
On (Enothera biennis^ its food plant. No other Illinois rec-

ords.

Systena blanda Mels. H.4, Je. 6. (4) 111.

Ghalepus smithi H. Donck. (Odontota horni). H.4, Au. 20. No



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other Illinois record. N. W. Ind., coll. by Wolcott (see

Kwiat '05).

Chalepiis dorsaUs Thunb. {Odontota). H.l, Je. 7. (3) 111.

Coptocycla clavata Fabr. H.l, Je. 7. Bloomington and Kappa,

Mar. 8, July 14; N. 111. (Bolter Coll.); Peoria (Brendel).

Bruchus cruentatus Horn. H.2, Au. 18. (8) On Cassia chamce-

crista, probably breeding in the seeds. 111.

Bruchus hilisci Oliv. H.4, Je. 6. (2) Camp Point and Normal, 111.

Zalrotes^ n. sp. H.2, Au. 18.

Epitragus acutus Lee. H.l, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, H.m. ; July 22, 30, Au. 3,

12, 14, 18, 19, 20, 22. (23) On flowers of Mesadenia

atriplicifolia. No other Illinois records.

Scotohates calcaratus Fabr. H.l, Je. 7. 111.

Xylophius saperdioides Oliv. H.l, Je. 7. 111.

Tenehrio molitor Linn. H.m. (2) 111.

Opatri?ius tiottts Sa.y. H.l, Je. 7, 8, Au. 22. (21) Common under

boards in dry sandy pasture in company with Lacon rectangu-

laris. On sandy land in Texas (Hart, '06) the same associa-

tion is conspicuous, except that 0. notus is replaced by the

allied species aclculatus. 111.

Blapstinus interruptus Say. H.6, Je. 8, 9, 12. (4) In dry bare

sand along upper slope of river bank. 111. (Bolter Coll.).

Collected by Wolcott in "Chicago Area" (Kwiat '05). On
sand near Waukegan, Au. 18.

Hymenorus ohscurus Say. H.l, Je. 7. 111.

JVothtis varians Lee. H.4, Je. 5. (3) 111. (Lee).

Mordella scutellaris Fabr. Teheran, Je. 22. 111.

Mordella octopunctata Fabr. H.6, Je. 9. 111.

Mordella marginata Mels. H.4, H.m. ; Je. 5, 6, July 12. (5) 111.

Mordellistena Uplagiata Helm. H.2, 4; Je. 5,8. (2) "N. HI.,

June"; Carlinville (Rob.).

Stereopalpus mellyl Laf. H.l, Je. 7. (3) Rock Island; sand

ridges near Waukegan, Au. 23.

Notoxus hifasciatus Lee. Teheran, Je. 22. 111.

Macrohasis unicolor Kirby. H.l, 2, Mer. ; Je. 8, 23, Au. 30. On

Cracca virginiana. (18) 111.

Fpicauia pennsylmnica BeG. H.l, 2, 4; Je. 6, 7, 8. (7) 111.

RUpiphorus pectinatus Fabr. H.2, Au. 18, 19. (2) On plants on

dune slopes. 111.



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Attelalus hipustulatus Fabr. H.2, Je. 8. On (Enothera biennis

stems on sand-dunes. Villa Ridge, September; Peoria (Bren-

del).

Fhacepholis Candida Horn. H.l, 2, 4; Je. 6,7,8. (22) Abund-

ant on stems of plants along the railroad in low ground near

Forest City. Urbana. (Note 16)

Phytonomus comptus Say. H.6, Je. 8. (5) 111.

Lixus concavus Say. H.2, Je. 8. 111.

Magdalis armicollis Say. H.2, 6; Je. 8, 12. (3) On elm along

roadside. 111.

RJiyssematus lineaticollis Say. H.3, Au. 15. On Asclepias cornuti.

Morris, July 19; "N. 111."

Chalcodermus collaris Horn. H.2, Je. 8, Au. 12. (14) Common
on (Enothera biennis on dune slopes. Knaus ('93) found "a

fine lot" about Kansas sand-dunes, which he thought bred in

the seed pods of the Yucca which was abundant along the

sides of the blowouts. There is no wild Yucca in this valley.

Chittenden thinks its habits are probably similar to those of

C. wneus, which breeds in cow-peas. No other Illinois records.

Tyloderma foveolatum Say. H.6, Je. 8. On stems of (Enothera

biennis., in which the larvae breed. 111.

Acanthoscelis acephalus Say. H.2, Je. 8. 111. (Bolter Coll.) ; Pe-

oria (Brendel). Occurs on (Enothera biennis.

Ti'ichobaris trinotata Say. H.4, Je. 6. 111.

Centrinus picumnus Hbst. H.4, Je. 6. 111.

Rhodoboenus 13-punctatus 111. H.2, Je. 8. 111., on cocklebur.

Lepidoptera.

Pyrameis huntera Fabr. H.2, Au. 12, roadside. 111.

Apatura celtis Boisd. & Lee. H.2, Au. 18, roadside. 111.

Apatura clyton proserpina Scudd. H.2, Au. 18, roadside. 111.

Thecla melinus Hiibn. H.2, Au. 13, roadside. 111.

Chrysophanus hypophlcBas Boisd. H.2, Au. 13, roadside. 111.

Pieris protodice Boisd. & Lee. H.2, Au. 13, roadside. 111.

Colias philodice Godt. H.3, Au. 18. 111.

Terias lisa Bo\s^. H.2, 3; Au. 13, 14. (2) 111,

Pamphila zabulon Boisd. & Lee. H.3, Au. 17. 111.

Pamphila metacomet Harr. H.2, Au. 13. 111.

Pyrgus tessellata ^cudd. (Skinner, Ent. News, Vol. XVII., p. 277.)

H.3, Au. 17. Common along roadways in sand region. 111.



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Eudamus tityrus Fabr. H,2, Au. 18, roadside. 111.

Eubaphe aurantiaca hreviconiis Walk. H.2, Je. 8. (2) Frequent
on sand-dunes. 111.

Estigmene acrcea Drury. H.8, Au. 17. 111.

Chloridea virescens Fabr. H.l, 6; Je. 8, Au. 11. Urbana; 111.

(Bolter Coll.).

Heliocheilus paradoxus Grote. H.2, 5; Je. 17, Au. 12, 13. (2+ )

These curious little noctuids dance up and down in stationary

groups of usually two to four at twilight, in open sandy
ground, near the level of the tops of plants. The subcostal

and discal cells of the male fore wings are greatly enlarged,

transversely ribbed, and usually denuded., While they are

dancing, a continuous rapid series ot sharp ticks is heard,

exactly like that of a watchman's rattle, but of diminutive

volume, yet easily heard fifty feet away. This is probably

effected by the male's extending the fore legs and rasping

the tibial spurs against the corrugated cell-membranes during

flight. Urbana, Au. 28 and S. 29, in gravel-cut on railroad.

Schinia arcifera Guen. H.2, Au. 13. 111.

Xanthoptera semiHava Guen. (Dyar, det.). H.3, Au. 17. III.

Acontia lactipenriis Harvey. H.l, 4; Je. 6, 7. (2) This handsome
Texan species is new to Illinois.

Ypsia undularis Drury. H.l, Je. 23. 111.

Sesia tipuliformis Linn. (Dyar, det.). H.2, Au. 18. 111.

Meroptera cviatella Dyar (Dyar, det.). H.4, Je. 5. Recently de-

scribed (Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., Vol. VII., p. 34) from Chicago,

and named after the collector, Mr. A. Kwiat. This may be a

sand-region species, common to the Lake Michigan and Illi-

nois valley areas.

Cranibus haytiellus Zinck. (Dyar, det.). H.2, Au. 12. Not infre-

quent about sand blowouts. Described from Hayti and listed

from Texas. No other records found.

Olethreutes dimidiana Sodoff? (U. S. Bur. Ent., det.). H.l, 2;

Je. 7, 8 (all immature). In these two localities many cylin-

drical tubes of webbed sand were found extending up the

stems of Oiiagra biennis, Cassia chanuecrista^Sind Amhrosia{ ?)

,

often as much as two feet long, and following most of the stems

of a plant, reaching the top, where the new growth had been

fed upon. In one case a short tube was formed on the surface

of the bare sand. These tubes closely resemble those figured



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by Daecke ('05) for Prionajpteryx nehulifera^ from sand areas

in New Jersey. In these tubes were found small and very

active tortriciform larvfe. Mr. J. J. Davis, of the University

of Illinois, submitted an example to Mr. Daecke, who replied

that it was not the same as his species. Mr. Davis was suc-

cessful in securing an adult from these larvae June 30, and the

Bureau of Entomology at Washington has determined it for

him as Olethreutes dimidiana^ a European species, reported

also from Missouri. The larva of this species, however, ac-

cording to Treitschke, is quite differently marked from our

specimens, feeds on birch and elder, and occurs in August in-

stead of June, pupating in September and emerging the fol-

lowing May.

Dipt ERA.

Tipula, sp. H.6, S. 4.
'

Spogostylum alhofasciatum Macq. H.3, Au. 18. No other Illinois

record.

Exoprosopa fasciata Macq. H.l, 2, 4, 5; Au. 12, 17, 18, 20, 22.

(9) 111.

Exoprosopa fascipennis Say. H.3, Teheran ; Au. 14, 17. (2) 111.

Anthrax lateralis Say. From a pupa apjjarently of the ordinary

noctuid type, taken by Mr. Davis at the Devil's Hole June 8,

an adult of this species emerged July 1. The species of

this genus rest quietly—making occasional short flights—
about roadways and bare sandy places. 111.

Anthrax hypomelas Macq. H.6, S. 5. This species has been bred from
cutworms (Ins. Life, Vol. II. p. 853). No other Illinois record.

Anthrax halcyon SaJ^ H.6, S. 4. Savanna, July 22; Carlinville

(Rob.)."

Anthrax fulvohirta Wied. H.2, 3; Au. 12, 18. (2) 111.

Anthrax sinuosa Wied. H.6, Je. 9. Matteson, July 8 ; Carlinville,

on Psoralea onohrychis (Rob.).

Systo&chus vulgaris Loew. H.l, 2, 3; Au. 18, 22. (5) On flowers.

111.

Phthiria sulphurea Loew. H.2, 4; Au. 18, 20. (2) Roadside
plants. Oockerell has noted it resting on composite flowers

of the same color as itself. 111.

Psilocephala pictipennis Wied. H.4, 6 ; Je. 6, 9. (2) No other

Illinois records.



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Psilocephala hcemorrhoidalis Macq. H.2, 4; Je. 6, Au. 18. (2)

Resting on bare sand. 111.

Laphystia 6-fasciata Say. H.2, 4; Je. 6, 7. (2) On the bottoms

of deep blowouts in company with Microhemlex monodonta^

which it somewhat resembles, especially when in action. No
other Illinois records. Common at the seashore. (Note 17)

Dasyllls grossa Fabr. H.4, July 1. No other Illinois record.

Proctacanthus hrevipennis Wied. H.l, 2, 4; Je. 6, 7, 8, 23. (6)

Flying about vegetation in sandy places, and alighting on or

near the ground. No other Illinois records. These "robber-

flies" prey on other insects.

Proctacanthus milhertii Macq. H.2, 3, 4; Au. 15, 18, 19, 20. (9)

With the preceding species; said to prey upon honey-bees

and grasshoppers. Sand ridges near L. Michigan, Waukegan.
Asilus agrion Jaennicke, a doubtful synonym, is the only

other record for Illinois.

Erax oistuans Linn. H.l, 4; Je. 6, 7. (8) Common along sandy

roads near the Devil's Neck. La Salle Co., Mt. Carmel, Ur-

bana, sand at Waukegan ; Au. 16, 28, S. 25.

Promachus vertehvatus Say. H.l, Au. 22. III. A common robber- Hy.

Asilus angustifrons Will. (Coquillett, det.). H.6, Je. 9. No
other Illinois record.

Rhadiurgus leucopogon Will. (Coquillett, det.). H.2, 3; Au. 12,

17, 18. (8) This robber-fly is common at Devil's Hole. No
other Illinois records.

Mesogramma politus Say. H.2, Au. 19. III.

Mesogramma margmata Say. H.2, Au. 19. 111.

Volucella fasclata Macq. H.l, 2, 3, 4; Je. 6, 8, 23, Au. 12, 13, 14,

17, 18, 19. (14) This odd little syrphid is one of the charac-

teristic blow-sand sf)ecies. The larvae breed in the tissues of

the cactus
(
Opuntia humifusa) which grows abundantly in

this region (Smith, '91, Williston, '91). The adults are often

seen flying about, and abound on roadside flowers, such as

Verbena, dandelion, sweet clover, etc. No other Illinois

records.

Conops sylvosus Will. H.3, Au. 14. No other Illinois record.

Conops xanthopareus Will. H.l, 2, 4; Je.6, 7, Au. 18. (4) 111.

Zodion ohliquefasciatum Macq. {leucostoma Will.). H.2, 6, Pekin

;

Au. 12, 18. (8) Urbana and Sandwich ; July 25 and 28.

Carlinville (Rob.).



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Cistogaster hnmaculata Macq. H.2, Je 8. III.

Ocyptera carolince Desv. H.2, 4; Je. 6, 8. (3) 111.

Sturmia albifrons y^&\k. {Go(\m\\ett,^Qt.). H.2, Au. 19. (2) 111.

Phormia terrcenovce Desv. (Coquillett, det.). H.2, Au. 18, 19.

(4) Very cominon on Cassia chanueGrista at Devil's Hole.

A common species of house-fly.

Musca domestlca Linn. H.2, Au. 18. Not infrequent at Devil's

. Hole. The common house-fly.

Anthomyia pratincola Panz. (Coquillett, det.). H.2, Au. 18. No
other Illinois record.

Co&nosia lata Walk. (Coquillett, det.). H.2, Au. 19. No other

Illinois record.

Rivellia viridulans Desv. H.4, Je. 6. (2) 111.

Rivellia Jf-fasciata Macq. H,2, 6; Je, 9, Au. 19. (8) Common on

plants along the river shore. 111.

Hymenoptera.

Tenthredo vei'tioalis Say. H.4, Je. 6. 111. (Bolter Coll.).

Dolerus arvensis Say. H.5, Apr. 14. 111.

Monophadnoides ruhi Harr. H.2, Je. 8 (larvae). On raspberry by

roadside. 111.

Schizocerus^ n. sp. (Ash mead, det.). H.3, Au. 14. Common on

undetermined low plants at edge of blowout, associated with

Chelonus^ and closely imitated by it. (See Ghelonus texanus^

below.)

Iphiaalax eurygaster BruUe. H.4, Au. 20. 111.

Gardiochiles aplcalis Cress. (Ashmead, det.). H.2, Au. 18. (5) 111.

Microdus sanctus Say (Ashmead, det.). H.4, Je. 6. (2) III.

Ghelonus texanus Cress. (Ashmead, det.). H.3, Au. 14. Examples
of Ghelonus were very abundant in association with an unde-

scribed Schizocerus^ so closely resembling it when in action

that the two were hard to distinguish. Two Ghelonus were

taken, and proved to be one each of this and the next species.

No other Illinois record.

Ghelonus angheri La Mun. {Ascogaster) (Ashmead, det.). H.3, Au.
14. (See the preceding species.) No other Illinois record.

Exoohilum fusoipenne Nort. (Ashmead, det.). H.2, 5; Au. 12,

13. (2) 111.

Nototraohys canadensis Prov. (Ashmead, det.). H.2, Au. 19. III.

Enicospilus purgatus Say. H.l, 6; Au. 22, S. 4. (5) 111.



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Lampronotus melUpes Prov.? {'^ mellipes Say"; Ashmead, det.).

H.6, Je. 9. No other Illinois record known to me.
Amblyteles nnblvagus Cress. H.5, 6; Je. 9. (2) 111.

Ichneumon suhcyaneus Cress. H.m., Au. 19. Ill,

Formica fusca Linn. H.2, Au. 19. 111.

Formica pallidefulva schaufussi Mayr. H.2, Au. 18, 19. (5)
Very few ants' nests were seen in the blow-sand. 111.

Lasius niger americamis Linn. Mol., S. 8. Males and females
swarming from a large nest in the coarse grass on the slope of

the Sand^Hill. 111.

Lasius Intipes Walsh. Mol., S. 8. (2) Examples under boards at

edge of pasture on the Sand Hill, along with the pallid har-

paline beetles. Rock Island (Walsh); Muncie.

Prenohpis fulva Mayr? H.5, Au. 17. (7) Nesting in sand in a

thicket. 111.

Camponotus herculaneus Linn. H.5, Au. 17. In same place as pre-

ceding species. 111.

Myrmica rubra scahrinodis schencki Emery. H.5, Au. 17. (3)

In thicket with the two preceding species. 111.

Pheidole vinelandica Forel (Ashmead, det.). H.5. A sand-in-

habiting species. No other Illinois record.

Monomorium minutum Mayr (Ashmead, det.). H.2, Au. 18. 111.

Sphcerophtkabna, n. sp. (Melander, det.). Mol., S. 8. (2) Belongs

to simillima group.

SphfBrophthalma harmonia Fox (Melander, det.). H.2, 3; Au. 14,

18. (13) One of the commoner species of the Illinois valley

blow-sand areas. Sand-dunes in N. W. Ind. (Melander, '03)
;

Pine Hills, Union Co. (S. 111.), Au. 11.

Spha'rophthalma occidentalis Linn. H.2, 3, Mer., Pekin ; Au. 12,

13, 14, 17, 29. (6) Occasional. The Mason Co. examples

are all a golden ochre color. The Meredosia specimen is of

the usual scarlet color of the species, as are also the State

Laboratory specimens, which are all from southern Illinois.

Mason Co. is near the northern limit- of its range.

Sphoerophtkalma J^-guttata Say. H.2, 3, Mol.; Au. 12, 14, 18,

S. 8. (7) Savanna, Normal, and Metropolis; July 25, 26,

Au. 18, September.

Spfuerophthalma ferrugata Fabr. (Melander, det.). H.l, 2, 3, 4,

5, Mol.; Au. 14, 17, 18, 20, 22, S. 8. (15) Another common
species of our sand regions.



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Sphcerophthalma vesta Oress. (Melander, det. ). H.4, Au. 20.

No other Illinois record.

Sphmrophthahna canella Blake {rugulosa Fox) (Melander, det.).

Mol., S. 8. No other Illinois record.

Sphcerophthalma chlamydata Mel. H.l, 2, 3, 4, 6, H.m., Mer.

;

Je. 23, Au. 12, 14, 15, 18, 29, S. 5. (80) H.3 (Melander,

'03, chlamydata). The leading species of velvet ant in the

Illinois-valley sand area. It will be noted that with the ex-

ception of a single Methoca, hicolor no Mutillidce whatever
were seen during the early June visit to the Illinois valley

region. (Note 18)

Sphcerophthalma agenor Fox (Melander, det.). H.2, 4, Mol.; Au.

18, 20, S. 8. (7) 111.

Sphcerophthalma macTa Oress. H.2, Au. 18. 111. (Note 19)

Timulla hexagona Say. H.2, 6; Au. 18, S. 5. (3 males) 111.

Timulla duhitata Smith. H.l, 3 (Melander, '03), 4; Au. 20, 22.

(4 females) 111. Probably female of Aea?«^o/ia.

Methoca hicolor Say (Ashmead, det.). H.6, Je. 9; the only

mutillid taken in early June. Lake Co. 111., in gravel-pit

(Melander; '03).

Tiphia punctata Rob. H.2, 3; Au. 13, 14, 18. (9) 111.

Dielis plumipes Drury. H 2, 4, 6, Pekin ; Je. 6, 8, Au. 15. (54

males, 2 females) Abundant on dandelion and sweet clover

flowers along roadsides at Forest City and the Devil's Hole in

June. N. 111. (Bolter Coll.) ; Rock Island, Savanna, Fox L.

;

July 26, 30. Carlinville (Rob.).

Trielis octomaculata Say. H.3, Au. 14. The thorax of this exam-
ple is black except for three very small yellowish dots on the

collar. No other Illinois record.

Discolia hicincta Fabr. H.5, Au. 17. 111.

Plesia namea Fabr. {Myzine) (Ashmead, det.). H.2, Au. 18. (2).

Common on flowers of Mesadenia atriplicifolia. 111.

Plesia interrupta Say. H.2, 3, H.m., Teheran; Au. 12, 13, 14, 17,

18, S. 25. (10) 111.

Plesia., sp. (Ashmead, det.). H.2, H.m. ; July 1, Au. 18, S. 25. (4)

Plesia ohscura Fabr. (Ashmead, det.). H.2, 3, 6, H.m.; July 29,

Au. 12, 14, S. 10. (5)

Hedychrum ohsoletum ^diy . H.l, 2; Au. 12, 22. (2) 111.

Ancistrocetnis cam'pestris Sauss. H.4, Au. 20. 111.

Odynerus pedestris Sauss. H.2, Au. 18. 111.



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Odynerus geminatus Cress. (Ashmead, det. ). H.2, Au, 18. (2)

No other Illinois record.

Odynerus dorsalls Fabr. H.2, Au. 13, 19. (2) 111.

Polistes palUpes St. YdiVg. H.2, 4; Au. 12, 18, 20. (6) Common
,on Cassia chamcecrista.

Vespa Guneata Fabr. H.2, 4, Mer. ; Je. 6, 8, Au 80. (11) On
fresh watermelon rinds in sandy road. Abundant at Du
Bois about cider-mill August 24; Normal, July 28; Aldridge,

Au. 11; Oarlinville, on Aster ericoides villosus (Rob.).

Vespa germanica Fabr. H.4, Je. 6, Au. 20. (8) 111.

Ceropales fulvipes Cress. H.2, Au. 18. 111.

AnopUus ingenuus Cress. {Pompilus). H.l, 4; Je. 7, Au. 20. (2)

111.

AnopUus scelestus Cress. H.2, 4; Au. 12, 20. (2) 111.

Anoplius atrox Dahlb. H.2, Au. 12. 111.

AnopUus philadelphicus St. Farg. H.6, Au. 30. 111.

Anopli

AnopU

us tropicus Linn. H.l, 2, 3; Je. 7, Au. 17, 18,19. (5) 111.

AnopUus fuscipennis St. Farg. H.2, 4; Au. 12, 20. (2) III.

us marginatus Say. H.2, Au. 12, 18. (3) 111.

AnopUus cyUndricus Cress. H.m. 111.

AnopUus hlguttatus Fabr. H.2, 6; May 20, Au. 12, 18. (2) 111.

AnopUus, spp. (Ashmead, det. "6^e/'(?/?rt?it/fe; can not be determined

at present"). H.l, 2, 3, 4; Au. 14, 18, 20, 22. (9) Four

species.

Cryptocheikis nehulosus Dahlb. (Prloctiemls). H.6, Au. 12.

Cryptocheilus, sp. H.2, Au. 13.

Ammophila vulgaris Cress. H.2, Au. 18. (5) 111.

Ammophila argentata, n.sp. H.l, 2; Je. 7, Au. 18, 22. (3) (Note 20)

Ammophila procera Klug. H.2, 3, 4; Je. 6, 8, Au. 13, 14, 18, 19.

(5) 111.

Ammophila extremitata Cress, (pictipennis Walsh). H.2, Au. 13.

111.

Priononyx Ufoveolatus Tasch. {thonus Fabr.). H.2, Au. 19. 111.

Priononyx atratus St. Farg. H.2, Au. 18. 111.

Sphex pennsylvanicus Linn. H.l, Au. 22. 111.

Sphex ichneumoneus lAnn. H.l, 2 ; Au. 18, 22. (2) 111.

Anthophilus pulchellus Cress. H.2, Au. 18. (3)

Cerceris fumipennis Say (Ashmead, det.). H.4, Au. 20. 111.

Cerceris venator Cress. (Ashmead, det.). H.2, Au. 12, 18. (2) 111.



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Tachysphex texanus Cress. (Ashmead, det.). H.2, Je. 8. No other

Illinois record.

Tachytes ohscurus Cress. H.2, An. 13. 111.

Stictia Carolina Fabr. {Monedula). H.2, 5; Au. 12, 18. (2) N.

111. (Bolter Coll.) ; Carlinville, on Pycnanthemum niuticum

pilosum (Rob.).

.Microhembex monodonta Say. H.2, 3; Au. 12,14,18. (8) Resting on

bare sand in blowouts, or flying about near the surface. 111.

Bemhex spinolcB St. Farg. H.3, 6, Mol. ; Au. 14, 18, S. 8. (4)

Common along the sandy shore above Havana. 111.

Beinbidtda capnoptera Handl. H.2, Au. 13. No other Illinois

record. (Note 21)

Bembidula J^-fasciata Say. H.4, Au. 20. Carlinville, on Pycnan-

themurn linifolium (Rob.).

Mimesa argentifrons Cress. Mol., S. 8. 111.

Anacrahro ocellatus Pack. H.2, 4; Au. 18, 20. (3) 111.

Notoglossa americana Rob. H.2, 4; Je. 6, Au. 18. (2) 111,

Golletes americana Cress. H.2, 3; Au. 12, 14, 18. (5) Carlin-

ville, on various flowers (Rob.).

Colletes latitarsis Rob. H.l, 3; Au. 12, 21. (3) 111.

Chloralictus pilosus Smith. H.l, 2, 3; Au. 14, 18, 22. (4) 111.

Lasioglossum coriaceum Smith. H.4, Au. 20. 111.

Oxystoglossa confusa Rob. H.5, Au. 12, 111.

Augochlora fervida Smith. H.2, Au. 12. 111.

Augochlora humeralis Patton (Titus, det,), H,2, 3; Je. 8, Au. 14,

18, 19. (5) 111.

Agapostemon texanus Cress. H.2, Au. 18. III.

Agapostemon splendens Lep. H.l, 2, 4, 6; Je. 6, 7, 8, 9, Au. 18.

(7) On sweet clover.

Halictus tumulorum Linn. H.4, Je. 6. 111.

Co&Uoxys octodentata Say. H.2, 5; Je. 8, Au. 13,17,18,19. (7) 111.

Megachile mendica Cress. H.3, 4; Au. 15, 20. (3) 111.

Megachile hrevis Say, H,2, 3, 4; Au. 15, 18, 20. (6) 111.

Megachile latimanus Say (Titus, det.). H.2, Au. 13, 19. (27)

Found one cloudy morning (Aug. 13) resting in occasional

large clusters on dead wild verbena stems along the road to

Devil's Hole.

Nothosmia alhiventris Cress. H.4, Je, 6, 111.

Epeolus concolor Rob. H.2, 6; July 22, Au. 13, 19. All 111.



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Fpeolus hmat us 8siy. H.l, 2, 4; Au. 13, 18, 19, 20, 22. (18) On
the occasion referred to under Megaeh'de latlmanus, E. lioia-

tus was frequently found singly, attached by its jaws to vari-

ous plants. No other Illinois records.

Epeolus hlfasciatus Cress, {fumlpennis). H.l, Au. 22. 111.

Epeolas pusillus (Jress. H.2, Au. 18. Carlinville, on Composltm
(Eob.).

Melissodes ohliqua Say (Titus, det.). H.2, Au.l3, 18, 19. (10) 111.

Melissodes atripes Cress. (Ashmead, det.). H.2, 3; Au. 13,14, 17,

18, 19. (38) On the occasion referred to under Megachlle

latimanns this species also was found in large numbers, clus-

tered on dead weed stems by the roadside.

Melissodes agilis aurigenla Cress. H.l, Au. 22^ 111.

Tetralonia dilecta Cress, H.2, 4; Je. 6, 8. (2) 111.

Bombus pennsylvanicus DeG. H.2, Au. 12, 18. (2)

Bomhus vagans Smith. H.4, Matanzas L. ; Je. 6, Au. 15. (3) 111.

Bomhus virginimis 0\\v. H.2, 3; Au. 17, 18. (3) 111.

Bombus separatus Cress. H.2, Au. 13. 111.

Apis mellifera Linn. H.l, 2, 3; Je. 7, Au. 13, 14, 18. (6) Com-
mon on flowers of Monarda pimctata and other plants in the

sand region.

BATKACHIA.

Hyla squii'eUa Bosc. H.l. Two seen on bushes on open sand-dune.

REPTILIA.

Heterodon slums Linn. Pekin (H. Garman, '92). The hog-nose

snake is common in the Illinois valley sand region, particularly

under boards along sandy roads at the Devil's Neck, and

under stones and driftwood along the sandy shores.

Cnemidophorus se.rlhieatus Linn. H.l, Je. 7. Henry, in a dry

sunny field on the banks of the Illinois River, not rare

;

Ottawa; lives in dry sandy regions (H. Garman, '92).

Terrapene Carolina Linn. (Cistudo). About ten years ago I saw a

number of these box-turtles traveling about the dunes of the

Devil's Hole, but only one was seen by us during the field work

for this article. The sinuous line at the edge of a moving
dune, shown in PI. XII., Fig. 2, was probably made by this

box-turtle. Southern Illinois, dry woods (H. Garman, '92).



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Mecostetkus platypterus Scudd. (Page 231) While this article is

going through the press I find Mr. E. D. Ball's list of Iowa

Orthojptera ('97), supplementary to that of Osborn, in which he

records this species from the extreme northwestern corner of

that state. Otherwise it is known only from New England,

and is only so listed by Scudder in his Catalogue ('00). Mr.

Ball also records MeTmiria hivittata from Iowa, which is a

little north of its usual range.

Arphia xanthoptera Germ. (Page 232) On'page 214, in discussing the

differences of hind-wing coloration of certain Orthoptera in

dry and humid environments, I mention the lack of sufficient

material for a comparison of the two variably colored species

which are common both in the sand region and on the humid
prairie. An opportunity for such a comparison has since been

afforded by the kindness of Mr. J. D. Hood, of the University

of Illinois, Mr. Hood is making a very interesting study of a

similar sand region in Wisconsin, and has secured a large se-

ries of Arphia xanthoptera^ which may properly be compared

with our series from the humid prairie, as the effect of aridity

would be reduced rather than increased by the higher latitude

of his locality. Blatchley says that in Indiana one third or

more of the males have yellow wings and not over one sixth

of the females, or an average of one fourth. Our collections

show practically identical conditions, the usual color being a

clear orange-red. On the other hand, Mr. Hood states that

although in the Wisconsin sand region this species was very

abundant, being seen by the hundreds every day, only a sin-

gle orange-winged specimen was observed during five weeks'

collecting, all the rest having yellow wings with at most a

faint tinge of orange. Mr. Hood pertinently points out that

the original color in all these species is probably that found in

the more arid environment; not the reverse, as might be

inferred from my wording.

Lepyronia gibhosa Ball? (immature). In the preceding list (page

236) I have mentioned immature Cercopidm^ probably Z. ^^J5o-

sa^ occurring on the extreme bases of the stems in tufts of Cal-

lirhoe triangulata. Ball ('01) has found a western Aphroph-
ora feeding on pine in the adult stage, but in the immature



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stages inhabiting the stem bases of Chrysopsis vlllosa and
Luphius sp. after the manner of our species on Calllrhoe. He
regards this as a result of the arid environment, the envelop-

ing froth with which the young surround themselves being
more easily maintained here than on exposed twigs ; and he as-

sumes that the adults oviposit on these herbaceous food plants

of their young. In the Illinois valley sand region there are

no wild conifers.

Systematic Notes.

Note 1, p. 230.

—

Bacunculus hlatchleyi. Walsh described his

Diapheromera velii from Nebraska males and Illinois females. Scud-

der, in his Catalogue, credits velii to Nebraska only. The common
prairie species of Illinois and Indiana, which we have been calling

velil^ was represented in our collections mostly by female specimens,

but it was noted that the males indicated either that our velii was
not a typical Diap?ieromera or that it was a Bacunculus. Mr. A. N.

Caudell has received from Mr. W. S. Blatchley a pair of alcoholic

specimens taken in Indiana, and described them as Bacuncuhis
hlatchleyi. Mr. Caudell has kindly sent me a typical male velii

from Kansas, and 1 can now say with certainty that our specimens,

and also those; in Mr. Blatchley's cabinet, which I had previously ex-

amined, are all Bacunculus hlatchleyi
.^

to which species Walsh's

females probably belonged. It is an inhabitant of rank prairie

vegetation like velii., while femorata is a forest species. I have also

taken hlatchleyi d^thdike Geneva, Wis., as stated in the list.

Note 2, p. 231.

—

Eritettix vivgatus''} This single female agrees

with Scudder's description and McNeill's key except that the sup-

Ijlementary carinae of the pronotum are almost entirely obsolete. It

is possibly a new species.

Note 3, p. 231.

—

Ageneotettix scndderi. Hancock ('06) has col-

lected examples of Ageneotettix near Chicago, which, after compari-

son with a type specimen of A. scudderi^ he has described as a new
species under the name arenosus., suggesting that the Minnesota, Illi-

nois, and Indiana .s<??/Y7r/e?v' of Lugger, McNeill, and Blatchley respec-

tively are probably also arenosus. According to him, are/iosus, as

compared with sctidderi, is smaller and more slender, with the vertex

right-angled, not acute-angled as in scudderi, the foveohB deeper, the

tegmina slightly shorter, etc. He has evidently overlooked Bruner's



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"Some New Colorado Orthoptera" (Bruner, '04), in which a key to

this genus appears and ^4. occidentalis is described from Colorado.

This is said to differ from scudderi "in its somewhat slenderer form
and smaller size," in its "somewhat abbreviated tegmina and wings,"

and "in the fewer (9) spines on the outer row of the hind tibiae.'.'

Scudderi is characterized in Bruner's key as having 10 or 11 spines

in the tibial outer row and the vertex right-angled or obtuse-angled

in both sexes, while in the remaining species, deortimy it is slightly

acute-angled. It will be noted that the broad-angled vertex is used
by Bruner to distinguish scudderi from deorum; and, on the other

hand, by Hancock, to distinguish arenosus from scudderi. Appar-
ently arenosus is not sufficiently distinguished from occidentalism, or

from scudderi as defined by Bruner, and it seems best for the pres-

ent to retain the name scudderi for our Illinois examples. Individ-

uals from all the Illinois localities herein cited, as well as some tak-

en in Wisconsin by Mr. J. D. Hood, agree sufficiently with Han-
cock's description of arenosus., as well as with Bruner's characteriza-

tion of scudderi just cited. The vertex is usually slightly obtuse-

angled. An examination of the spines in the hind tibial outer row
of 12 specimens from various localities gave the following result:

spines, 9-9 (1 specimen), 9-10 (2), 10-lol;7), 10-11 (1), 11-11 (1).*

Note 4, p. 233.

—

Psinidia fenestralis. Five eastern specimens
of fenestralis (New Jersey, etc.) in the State Laboratory collections

show varietal differences from Illinois examples. Our specimens
are smaller—female, 19-23 mm., male, 14-17 mm.—as compared
with the eastern examples—female, 25 and 27 mm., male, 18-19 mm.

;

and in our examples the wing band is farther from the base. In the
eastern specimens it crosses the wing centrally, or a trifle nearer
the base ; the first convex radiate vein—that crossing near the wing
center— is at least half in the band ; and there is a broad hyaline
space beyond the band, the apex immaculate in the female. In
our examples the band crosses nearer the apex than the base ; the
first convex radiate vein is about two fifths in the band ; and
the hyaline spot beyond is small, the apex in the female with evident
darker spots at the vein tips and in the subcostal region. In all the
males the apex is blackish.

Note 5, p. 233.

—

Trimerotrojpis citrina. Our examples of T.

* Rehn, in a paper received since the above was written (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.

Phila., Vol. 58, p. 371), shows that both scudderi and occidentalis sltb probably syno-
nyms of deorum.



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maritiina from New York and New Jersey have a very narrow wing-

band, tapering out at the anal vein and falling far short of the anal

angle ; the teginina are without definite indication of the two prin-

cipal spots or bands ; the dorsal hue is a dull pale sand-color ; and
the tibia? are whitish yellow. Tyi)ical citrina (from Galveston, Tex.,

from Elizabethtown, 111., on the Ohio River, from Meredosia and
Havana on the Illinois, and from the Mississippi River shore from

Grand Tower to Savanna) has a broad complete band approaching

the anal angle; the tegmina have a pair of evident spots or bands;

the general color is a speckled brownish; and the tibia^ are red to

orange. In the State Laboratory collections are a number of ex-

amples labeled "N, 111." which are intermediate between the two
forms above described— the wing band narrow, but not interrupted

except by the pale anal vein, a pair of inconspicuous small spots on

the tegmina, the general color light, and the tibiti? pale lemon-yel-

low. One of this type, with yellow tibi^f, is from Henry, 111., north

of Peoria, on the Illinois River. This and a citt'ina from Bird's

Point, Mo., were listed by McNeill in his "Orthoptera of Illinois" as

Cireotettix verruculatus. Collections of the lakeshore form of

maritima were made by us along the beach of Lake Michigan at

Waukegan in August, 1906, in time to include the results herein.

These were closely like the somewhat intermediate form just men-
tioned as labeled "N. 111."—probablj, therefore, lakeshore col-

lections also. The tibi«3 were lemon-yellow, and identification as

maritima seemed admissible. Mr. Shobe succeeded, however, in

finding on the lake beach examples with well-marked orange tibiae

not otherwise differing from those with lemon-yellow tibiae. This

makes the line of division between the two species very indefinite.

Note 6, p. 234.

—

Melanoplus macneilU., n. sp. This was found

only in a restricted area beside the blowouts on the Moline Sand

Hill, associated with M. ffavidus and angustipeanifi, to the latter of

which it is closely allied. It was at once recognized by my assistant,

Mr. Frank Shobe, and myself, as a new form because of its different

thoracic and femoral coloring. The male terminal structures are

about as in angustipennis, except that the furcula is very short and

strongly divergent, and the apex rather narrowly rounded. The
hind tibicie are light blue, apically greenish. The species is about

the size and color of angustipennis, perhaps a trifle smaller, but

with two noticeable color differences. The entire ventral margin

of the hind femora is strongly sanguineous, while in angustipennis



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it is dull greenish yellow ; and the dorsum of the thorax, especially

in fresh specimens, is a lighter gray than in angustipennis^ con-

trasting much more with the black lateral stripe. The dorsal mar-

gin of the hind femur is more distinctly banded than in angusti-

pennis. The prozona is slightly narrower behind than in angusti-

pennis and the metazona shorter. Apparently these differences re-

quire the formation of a new species, which I dedicate to the

pioneer in this interesting local field.

Note 7, p. 235.— UdeopsyUa rohusta. The common JJdeopsylla

nigra of eastern Illinois is uniform black or piceous, except for some

faint rufous thoracic spots. Examples of UdeopsyUa rohusta ivoxw

South Dakota are rufo-testaceous throughout, except for being dark-

er in front of the sutures. The male and female taken near Ha-

vana are mahogany-brown, darker at the sutures ; the face, legs, and

ovipositor are rufo-testaceous, about as in the South Dakota speci-

mens, but the outer faces of all the femora are indefinitely striped

and mottled with the dark mahogany color, not uniformly pale as in

typical rohusta. The tibiae and tarsi are just as in typical rohusta^

while those of nigra are no paler than the dorsum. The Havana

pair are clearly not nigra^ and for the present may be regarded as

a variation of rohusta. The eastward range of rohusta is thus ex-

tended across the Mississippi. That of nigra reaches certainly about

to the Indiana line, and probably far beyond it.

Note 8, p. '2^^.— JSfemohiiis fasciatus vittatus. As I have elsewhere

stated ('06), we may recognize three forms of wing development

in Nemohius by adding an intermediate form to the usual macropter-

ous and brachypterous types. In the intermediate form the wings

are aborted as in the brachypterous form, but the tegmina are long,

as in macropterous individuals, the dorsal field at apex ampliate

and much exceeding the tip of the lateral field, not truncate. The

specimen from the Devil's Neck is of this form.

Note 9, p. 236.

—

Nahis elongatus., n. sp. Length, 10 mm. ; width,

2 mm. Elongate, with whitish pubescence, minute and sparse on

upper surface, surface yellowish white above, a dusky stripe extend-

ing from between the antennae to the tip of the scutellum, broader

and darker posteriorly, especially on the scutellum ;
hemelytra at-

taining the base of genital segment, wings but slightly shorter,

hemelytra whitish without fuscous dots, veins of membrane faintly

bordered with fuscous on basal part, a dark spot at base of mem-
brane on inner margin ; tergum fuscous, darkest medially, becoming



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yellowish laterally. Beneath, dull yellowish with broad lateral

fuscous stripe, bordered on the metastethium by a whitish stripe

edged within by a dark line.

Head nearly as long as the thorax medially, a little more than

three times as long as the width between the eyes; first antennal

joint about as long as the head, antennae yellowish, apex of sec-

ond joint and remaining joints feebly infuscated; pronotum about

as wide at base as its length.

Legs pale dull yellowish, femora rather slender, the anterior

and middle ones gently tapering towards apex, the posterior one

subcylindrical, all dotted with fuscous spots, tibiae with some fus-

cous points, apex of tarsi, and claws black; fore femora slightly

longer than head and pronotum conjointly.

Abdomen about four times as long as broad, the genital segment
parallel-sided, one half longer than broad, with dark median line

on apical three fifths; male hamule about as figured by Renter for

vicarlus, with a lobate extension of the margin in a lower plane, on

the ventral side beneath the junction of the petiole and the semi-

circular lamella.

Taken along the sandy river margin in the lower part of Havana,

111., June 9, 1906. Type in coll. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist.

This macropterous male is near vicarlus Rent., which was de-

scribed from Illinois, and is by some united with propinqiius Reut.*

Both were described from the brachypterous form. Professor Her-

bert Osborn thinks our specimen can not be vicarlus, and I have de-

cided to describe it as new.

\Ligyrocoris constrictus. (See page 237) The species thus

listed by me is that commonly so identified in Illinois collections.

All examples at hand, however, clearly lack the stridulatory vitta of

Ligyrocoris. It is not Perigenes fallax, which resembles Ligyrocoris

and also lacks this vitta, but is larger, broader, and otherwise differ-

ent.

\Phlegyas annnUcrus. (See page 237) This is our common
Peliopelta ahhrevlata^ now catalogued as a synonym of annullcrtis.

I have not verified the occurrence of annuUcrus in the sand region if

*Propinquus and vicarlas were originally described on the same page, prop'mquus

first. Renter in a later article made virarius a synonym oi projihujinm, but Lethierry

and Severin list the species under the name clcartus, giving propinquus as a synonym.

tThe two notes without serial number were added after the printing of the

list.



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it be a western species distinct from ahh'eviata as suggested by Van
Duzee ('05).

Note 10, p. 238.

—

Euschistus variolariiis . In a study of the

genus Euschistus^ I noted examples of an apparent variety of variolari-

us having the usual black terminal ventral dot of the male, but with

small black dots at the sutural intersections of the abdominal mar-
gin as in fissilis and other species. The humeral spines are very

prominent in these specimens, and the lateral edge just in front of

the spines is concave or straight instead of being more or less con-

vex. This variety is represented in variolaritts from H.2 and 3.

Note 11, p. 239.

—

Honumnus mueifrons. In this genus the gen-

eral aspect of the punctuation varies to a remarkable degree. The
surface pattern is formed by sudden changes in the density of the

punctures, emphasized by contrasting shades of the ground color,

which also varies excessively in distinctness, from sharp contrasts

to their almost total obliteration ; but its form is nevertheless very

constant for each species. The differences in the median scutellar

pattern may be tabulated as follows

:

Median pale line of scutellum rather suddenly widening back of middle into

a broad medio-apical stripe.

Medio-apical stripe parallel -sided, the dark adjacent color gradually

shading off. Length, 7-8 mm. .... leneifrons Say.

Medio-apical stripe usually narrowing posteriorly, margined by a dark

line. Length, 4.5-6 mm. .... grammicus Wolff.

MMian pale line gradually widening into a narrow medio-apical stripe.

bijugis Uhl.

Median pale line very narrow or interrupted at posterior third of scutellum,

in front of and behind this usually very distinct, posteriorly spread

out fanlike or broadly subtriangularand gradually darkening, to apex.

proteus Stal,

Proteus is readily recognized also by the deep notch in the flap

like anterior extension of the prosternum each side of the middle.

Note 12, p. 242.

—

Harpalini, n. sp. This interesting carabid

appears to be generically and specifically new. It belongs to the

tribe Harpalini, but as the single specimen obtained is a female,

its systematic place is uncertain, and it does not seem advisable

to do more at present than to call attention to its striking

peculiarities.

It is about the size of Harpalus testaceus^ but even paler than

that species, yet apparently perfectly matured ; the thorax has the



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well-rounded angles and the form of that of Harpalus herhivagiis.

Unlike Harpalus^ however, it has three dorsal series of elytral

punctures, 4 or 5 in each row, located on the 3d, 5th, and 7th inter-

vals. The tibial and tarsal angles are not prolonged ; the fore

tarsi are spinulose beneath, slightly dilated ; the first joint of the

hind tarsi is not elongate. The antenna has the proximal two joints

glabrous; the eyes are rather small; the left mandible is chisel-

shaped, slightly overlapping the right; the labial palpi are plurise-

tose in front, the last joint slightly shorter than the preceding one

;

the mentum is acutely toothed at middle, its epilobes are narrow,

and it has a single setigerous puncture at each posterior angle.

Note 13, p. 243.

—

Ilyperaspidius trimaculatus. In this speci-

men the two pale vittc^e—lateral and sutural—of each elytron are at

base slightly broader but not united, the three black intervals of

equal width at base.

Note 14, pp. 243, 244.

—

Calopteron. I offer the following key

to facilitate the separation of these two species.

Apical part of third vein ot elytra within the black band raised on an

elevated ridge like that of the second and fourth, ridge ending rather

abruptly; no middle band in our specimens. .
- - terminale Say.

Apical part of third vein within the black band not on a distinctly elevated

ridge, the interval concave from the second to the fourth veins; middle

band present or wanting, reticulutuni Fabr.

Note 15, p. 244.

—

Luccmus placidus. This species may readily

be separated from dama as follows:

Mandi]>les of male rounded, ecarinate; of female strongly carinate on the inner

side of the dorsal surface—especially over the subapical tooth—and usually

a lower carina along its outer margin; top of head of female anteriorly ru-

gosely punctate and very opaque; elytra and thorax shining, dama Thunb.

Mandibles of both sexes subtriangular in cross-section, their dorsal surface

• concave, with a strong carina along its outer margin only; the inner edge

sharp, bidentate in the female and multidentate in the male; entire dorsal

surface of insect with dull luster. placiduti Say.

Note 16, p. 248.

—

Pharepholis candlda. Dr. Horn described this

from two specimens as "nearly white." It has, in fact, a color

pattern similar to that of ohscura^ in pale brown and white. The

thorax has a dorsal darker stripe divided by a fine median white

line, and lateral and ventro-lateral darker stripes. The elytral

scaling is very pale golden-brown, with two vague stripes and the



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lower margins white. The scales beneath are nearly white, without

evident pattern.

Note 17, p. 251.

—

Laphystia 6-fasciata.—Dr. Williston says

(Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. 12, p. 53) : "Specimens of this sijecies

from Montana differ appreciably from those from the Southern

States that I have seen. In all the northern specimens the pol-

linose bands of the abdomen are all entire, while in the southern

ones they are mostly interrupted ; the femora, moreover, in the

former are mostly yellow, while in the others they are chiefly black.

These differences, if not sufiicient to warrant specific separation,

may be varietally indicated by the name notata Bigot for the south-

ern form. " In our specimens the femora are reddish and the fifth

abdominal band is clearly interrupted.

Note 18, p. 254.

—

SphcBrophthalma Ghlainydata. Melander ('03)

collected "several" specimens of a male mutillid in the sand region

about Bath (designated in this list as H.3) which he determined as

hioculata^ and of a female, described by him as new under the name
chlamydata. Ten of my 16 unassigned males are his hioculata^ and
61 of the 83 unassigned females are his cJilamydata. On one occasion

one of these males was seen dancing in attendance upon a female

cMamydata^ both being then captured. Their occurrence is coin-

cident, and they have close similarities in vestiture. It would seem
proper to accept them as two sexes of one species. However, hiocu-

lata in the West has been connected by Cresson with quite a differ-

ent female, which Fox conjectures may be the same as creusa Cres-

son. Since the females are more reliably separable than the males,

it would seem best for the present to retain the name chlamydata
for both sexes in our region.

Note 19, p. 254.

—

SpJimrophthalma macra. The single example
which is assigned to this species has an evident coarse orange pubes-

cence on the second segment, the dorsal reddish area of which does

not seem to be two partly confluent spots as is the case in the more
common types assigned to ferrugata and ^<7en<9r, in which also the

pubescence is yellowish and not evident when viewed vertically from
above.

Note 20, p. 2bb. —AmmopMla argentata^ n. sp. The sides of

the thorax are covered with a mat of uniform silvery pubescence, its

dorsum is less conspicuously silvery pubescent; the face is silvery,

the red or yellowish of the abdomen extends from near the base of

the second joint to beyond the middle of the fourth, or even upon



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the base of the fifth ; the legs are wholly black ; the thorax is rather

sparsely punctate ; the nietanotum is finely and densely obliquely

striate; the wings are yellowish hyaline. Length, 18-21 mm. One
male, three females. Mason Co., 111. Type in coll. 111. State Lab.

Nat. Hist.

Note 21, p. 256.

—

Bemhldula capnoptera. The single example

agrees with the description of this species except that the abdom-

inal yellow bands are of good width, about equal to the intervals

between them, and all rather narrowly interrupted at middle.



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Fig. 1. Blow-sand entirely without vegetation. A grove of walnuts (Juglans nigra) in the rear.

Fig. 2. Traveling dune formed of sand removed from a blijwout. A small thicket of plum-trees

has been partially buried and the trees killed. A dense zone of Diodia teres grows around
the edge. Rohinia pseudacacia cultivated in the background.—The zigzag

line at the edge of the sand is the track of a box-turtle
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Fig. 1. Large blowout, the slopes still hare, but with the typical blowout association on the flat

bottom. The low vertical walls of sand are held in place by sand-bindiuK grasses.—Most
abunilant on the bare sand are Microbemhiex, Laphystia, Cuimlela /epiila, and Melan-

oijlus Jiitvhliis: and m the sparse growth various J/"«//V//(/(f, Meliinoplwi
i(/i.'justipen>ii-s, AfjeiicDleUix scudderi, Sphararjemoii iDj/iiiiiinijiiinnm,

Atuhrax, ChiiKtelaformosafjenerosa, and G. sculelktriti

lecoiUei.

Fu;. 2. The .steep wall of saiiil is held in place by I he l)unch-grasscs at its top. They are being
gradually undermined, as shown by the sliding plants on the slope.— .\ favorite place

for Ck-iiuk'la, Microbembex, iUutillidte, antl Melttnoplus Jlavidim

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Fig. 1. Bunch-grass association (Stipa sparlea) on top of a hill, showing the open character of the
vegetation. The trees in the background are not native.

—

Mdanoplus anflnstipe7i7iis,

Ageneotettix scudderi, Mestobregma thotnaai, Hippisciis rugosus, and Mu-
tillidcK are common, and in early summer Hippiscu/i phoeni-

copterus and //. haldemanii. Conocephalus
robustus also occurs here.

Fig. 2. A single plant of Sporobolus cryptandrus growing on blow-sand has built up a conspicuous
mound beneath it.



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Fig 1 . A low mouiiil of saiiil held in place by Rhm Ufomaticu. Several other species grow in the pro-
tected sand on its lee side. The small plants in the left foreground are Commelina virginica.

Fig. 2. A dense thicket of the saiid-l)iiider Uhitu aruiiMllca. The I uniMoweeds, Cuclulomu (UriplkifoUin

are the only plants on the blow-sand in front.— Upon the HhuH are Hkpharida rliois and its

larvae, Pelil/ii.'i rircunicinctzis and its nymphs, Iitatlnnki iimitiva,

and the predaceous XelTtssocUis.



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Fig. 1. Pojmlus Dilatata spreading by suckers over the blow sand into the blowout.
Jamesii grows in abundance in the right foreground.—Upon the Populiis

are Metachroma parallelum and M anguslulum.

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Fio. 1. Interior of a black-jaok forest.—On the ground are Melanoptus fanciatus, M. luridua, and
M. impudicus, and under gatherings of dry leaves Gryllua is abundant. Along the

forest margins are Schisiocerca alutacea and Hippiscus phaenicopterus.



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