FORTHE PEOPLE FOR EDVCATION FOR SCIENCE LIBRARY OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ; it \e ( JOURNAL OF THE Cincinnati Society of Natural History. VOLS XA: IQOI—1906. PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY, OFFICE, 312 BROADWAY, CINCINNATI, OHIO. PRINTED BY ‘THE KEBBERT & RICHARDSON Co. CINCINNATI. Officers of the Society, 1901-1906. President: CHR. R. HOLMES, M. D., I901-I904. GkEO.W. HARPER, LL.D., 1904-1905. CHAS. WM. DABNEY, LL. D., 1905-1906. First Vice-President: D. L. JAMES, 1901-1905. J. E.°C. KOHLSAAT, 1905-1906. Second Vice-President: T. H. KELLEY, 1901-1903. CH. DURY, 1903-1904. M. H. FLETCHER, M. D., 1904-1905. Secretary: ARCH I. CARSON, M. D., 1901-1903. G. A. HINNEN, M. D., 1903-1906. Treasurer: T. B. COLLIER, 1901-1906. Members at Large of the Executive Board: D. L. JAMES, I90I-1905. A. J. WOODWARD, M.D., 1901-1903. M. H. FLETCHER, M. D., 1901-1906. T. H. KELLEY, 1903-1906. W. H. FISHER, 1901-1906. Wo. C. JEWETT, C. E., 1903-1904. CHAS. DURY, I90I-1903, 1904-1906. Wo. OSBORN, A. M., 1904-1905. CHAS. H. CasTLE, M. D., 1905-1906. Trustees: F. M. Coppock AND 1901-1906. DUD NS 23 2 NG Present Staff of Museum and Library. WIRECHORS Rc 20 crsreiets Josua LINDAHL, PH.D., OFF. D’AC. (SINCE 1895.. Curators: HEL DALI 5... saa ce iis | Aer kraegee PROF. WALTER H. AIKEN (SINCE 1897). Minerals: 23 Vasu Wass oop ae Mr. HERMAN WUESINER ( ‘ Igor) Ornithology -eins. screens wees eee eee Mr. WM. CRAMER ( “_ 1904). Hntomology,; s:avuiccuwiasonns> see Mr. HAROLD M. BOWER ( ‘“ 1905). Publishing Committee. Josua LINDAHL, Editor. C. DuRY. D, lL. JAMES. C..G. LLoyp: TABLE OF CONTENTS. VOLUME XX. Page. WATCET SOL LIES OCICEYicic.oi sclaeete oe iaeistee Ble icssaie|e ola sietiarg Siete © see « ii Coritentsrofavoliusmie NOS oe ereliee sees Se clagh: .7 rs Ob anata eae oe iii Sicrieial baie IAs ante Sees iat etre hen Be Aner ti coceeee cnr ae eee ee I-2 Article I.—Observations on the efferent neurones in the electric lobes of Torpedo occidentalis. By Shinkishi Hatai (Py. I-III). 1-12 Article [I.—An investigation of the Vascular System of Bdedlosto- Ral) epee de cc enenen ee ehct erst ntsc areietone) are ev ecaamhaversnchaahearatoieteynieve arava, winiorave: oeta 13-48 Article III.—The Geology of Cincinnati. By J. M. NIcKLES (PI. Pamap. One map skete in’ the text)... 2c. 0 ccc esteecvw eas 49-100 Article I1V.—Description of anew Bryozoan Homotrypa bassleri, n. sp. from the Warren Beds of the Lorraine Group. By JoHN M. BUIcICnHS.. (hive fgwres in the text). 6 eiiiee a wen eh wiiewiets 2 Foe 103-105 Article V.—A Revised list of the Coleoptera observed near Cincin- nati, Ohio, with Notes on localities, Bibliographical references, and description of five new species. By CHARLES DurY. (Six BME Seate Me CORE Ir v5.06 ciethisa ne peGire mt. ve acc’ ein" one vlshuata eee 4 apeaioaleye 107-198 Article VI.—Check List of the Plants of Hamilton County Ohio, exclusive of the Lower Cryptogams. By WALTER H. AIKEN, 199-230 Article VII.—List of Medicinal Plants, wild or cultivated, growing in the vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio, with notes as to the parts used for medicinal purposes. By WALTER H. AIKEN........ 231-234 Article VIII.—Orthography of names of the Naiades. By Josua TU PUSA BATE GB 7s chs oy peek gene me mae Mec PRE reo ORCC rc aa r-2 35-243 Article IX.—Pisolitic Barite. By HERMAN WUESTNER. (Four Gees hare Mo Gext)), 5... nes 2. " x a Sa" capi oN és q Se : degree olay m ace AS 4 x EI ONSS Mie Spear Tae ae : Cauda Bees ee Tn) Le C. M. JacKson, Vascular System of Bdellostoma dombeyi. Society of Vatural History. ey Ache eile The Geology of Cincinnatt. 49 ARTICLE Ul.—THE GEOLOGY OF CINCINNATI. By J. M. NICKLES. i, LOPOGRAPELY.. The name chosen for the hamlet, settled in 1788, which has become the city of Cincinnati, suggests the reason for its location — Losantiville, L [icking] + os, mouth, + anti, oppo- site, + ville — the village opposite the mouth of the Licking. The comparatively level tract of land, safely above the flood waters of the Ohio, rendered easy the growth from hamlet to city. Opposite the mouth of the Licking, it stood at the gateway to the northern part of the fertile blue-grass region of Kentucky, at a time when river navigation was the best available mode of transportation. An equally fertile region lay to the north, to which the broad valley of the Millcreek furnished a natural outlet when the locomotive replaced the canoe and flatboat. This level tract, roughly circular in outline, of an average diameter of three miles, is bounded on three sides by a belt of hills, so-called. On the south the Ohio River separates it from a similar, somewhat smaller, tract lying to the south- east, which is also bordered on three sides by a belt of hills. The two tracts together form a quadrangular area, extending northwest and southeast. The area is really a somewhat basin-shaped depression in a generally rolling country. The so-called hills are the escarpments of the higher land fringing upon the basin. The Kentucky part of the basin is inter- sected by the Licking River traversing it from the south, dividing it into two parts, now occupied by the cities of New- port and Covington. Some of the peculiarities of the topography of Cincinnati and vicinity early attracted attention. It was observed that the valley of the Little Miami River for several miles above its confluence with the Ohio is wider than that of the Ohio from this point down; for many miles below the mouth of the Millcreek, the valley of the Ohio is very narrow, scarcely more than a trough; the valley of the Licking is quite wide for several miles up from its mouth; the valley of the Mill- Jour. Cin. Soc. NAT. HIST., VOL. XX, No. 2. PRINTED JANUARY Io, 1902. 50 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. creek, extending north for several miles, then northeast and again north, seems altogether too wide for the insignificant stream now flowing through it; from the valley of the Little Miami, between Red Bank and Plainville, a’ broad belt of depressed land extends northwestwardly until it enters the Millcreek valley, near St. Bernard or Ludlow Grove. The second geological survey of Ohio, 1869-1875, began the work of accumulating the data to explain this topography. Attention was called to the broad valley of the Millcreek extending from Hamilton to Clifton, there dividing, the westerly branch still occupied by the Millcreek, the other extending east and southeast to the Little Miami valley, and it was thought that the Big Miami may have taken this course to reach the Ohio.* The depth to the solid rock in the Mill- creek valley as shown bya well in Cumminsville,f 151 feet below the surface, or 60 feet below low-water mark of the Ohio River is noted, and its bearing upon elevational move- ments commented upon. The first connected attempt to explain the peculiarities of Cincinnati’s topography was a paper by Prof. Joseph F. James.{ He considered that a barrier extended across the Ohio from the Kentucky shore to the south end of the range of hills west of the Millcreek, evidence of the barrier being found in the beds exposed in the bank of the Ohio near Lud- low and in McCullum’s Riffle, a conspicuous bar in low water a few miles below the city; that. the Ohio divided into two branches, one flowing northwest from the Little Miami valley between Red Bank and Plainville, the other south of and around the “Cincinnati Island,” the higher land now occu- pied by the suburbs, Walnut Hills, Avondale, and Clifton, the two branches uniting near Ludlow Grove, thence together flowing to Hamilton, thence southwest through the valley of the Big Miami; the blocking of this northward channel in glacial times compelled the Ohio to cut across the barrier at Sedamsville. *Orton, Edward. Geol. Ohio, I, p. 420. fIbid., p. 433. {The Geology of Cincinnati. Jour. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., IX, 1886, pp. 20-31, 136-141. The Geology of Cincinnati. 51 Within the past few years the researches of glacialists have shown that the present drainage system of the northern half of the Ohio drainage basin is very different from what it was before the advent of the Ice Age. The earlier drainage was COLS N s ANCIENT CHANNELS --~~~ ! pee ARROWS POINT WIT! | Ag PRE-GLACIAL LOW. , i | Ze é | | HAMILTON Ba ‘2 ' ae \ zy A | Ped mak \ mt x y/ = , ol af IM LAS fe =e if ye: us a\ t A Ids se r< Q ) Peronopora decipiens (Rom- inger). Petigopora asperula Ulrich. * gregaria Ulrich. petechialis Nicholson. Proboscina auloporoides ( Nichol- son). Proboscina frondosa (Nicholson). Stomatopora inflata (Hall). BRACHIOPODA. Platystrophia lynx (Eichwald), variety. Schizocrania filosa Hall and Whitfield. Corryville or Chiloporella nicholsoni Beds. In this division the limestones are thinner and less frequent than in the quarry beds and the shales more yellowish. Blue shale also occurs. Price Hill and the higher hills of the “Cincinnati island” (see azfe, p. 50) expose these beds. Formerly Corryville abounded in exposures, but has been so covered with residences that the underlying strata are now seldom seen. One of the most characteristic bryozoa, very abundant in these beds, if not restricted to them, is the Chiloporella nicholsont. At the present time Fairview Heights affords a number of exposures of these layers. Owing to these strata having been largely cut into in the course of the transformation of the hill tops into the residence portion of the city, their fauna has become well known. In addition to the species ranging through the Lorraine, the following occur: SPONGIE. Leptopoterion mammiferum Pattersonia difficilis Miller. Ulrich. m4 ulrichi Rauff. ECHINODERMATA. Anomalocrinus caponiformis Glyptocrinus dyeri Meek. (Lyon). A dyeri-sublevis Miller. Anomalocystites balanoides Meek. subglobosus Meek. Cyclocystoides cincinnatiensis Heterocrinus pentagonus Ulrich. Miller and Faber. Lepidodiscus holbrooki (James). Cyclocystoides nitidus Faber. x pileus (Hall). Dendrocrinus posticus (Hall). ss warrenensis (James). . ISS) (Sal 84 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. Lichenocrinus dyeri Hall. Palzeaster spinulosus Miller and Ohiocrinus compactus (Meek). Dyer. “ constrictus (Hall). Streptaster? vorticellatus (Hall). Palzeaster incomptus Meek. BRYOZOA. Amplexopora filiosa (D’Orbigny). Dekayia appressa Ulrich. Arthropora shafferi (Meek). a pelliculata Ulrich. Atactopora sp. Heterotrypa inflecta Ulrich. Berenicea primitiva Ulrich. Homotrypa obliqua Ulrich. (c) or Sp. Monticulipora cincinnatiensis Bythopora dendrina (James). (James). 4 gracilis (Nicholson).(c) _ Peronopora compressa (Ulrich.) (c) Callopora andrewsi (Nicholson). “3 decipiens (Rominger). % ramosa (D’Orbigny).(c) Petigopora asperula Ulrich. 4 rugosa (Edwards and vs gregaria Ulrich. Haime). (c) rs petechialis Nicholson. Callopora sp. Proboscina auloporoides (Nichol- Ceramoporella granulosa Ulrich, son). variety. Proboscina frondosa (Nicholson). Ceramoporella whitei (James). Spatiopora tuberculata (Edwards sp. and Haime). Chiloporella nicholsoni (James) Spatiopora sp. () Stomatopora inflata (Hall). BRACHIOPODA. Platystrophia sp. Schizocrania filosa Hall and Whit- Rafinesquina alternata - nasuta field. (Conrad). (c) Trematis umbonata Ulrich. PELECYPODA. Allonychia jamesi (Meek). Orthodesma mundum Miller and = subrotunda Ulrich. Faber. Byssonychia alveolata Ulrich. Orthodesma parvum Ulrich. op preecursor Ulrich. Psilonychia perangulata Ulrich. Cardiomorpha obliquata Meek. Pyrenomoeus decipiens Ulrich. Cuneamya elliptica Miller. Rhytimya convexa Ulrich. Modiolodon truncatus (Hall). 4 mickelboroughi (Whit- Modiolopsis faba Emmons. field). GASTROPODA. Bellerophon recurvus Ulrich. Cyclonema simulans Ulrich. Conradella elegans (Miller). Dyeria costata (James). Cyclonema humerosum Ulrich. 36 The Geology of Cincinnati. 85 CEPHALOPODA. Gomphoceras cincinnatiense Orthoceras dyeri Miller. Miller. ss harperi Miller. Gomphoceras faberi Miller. VERMES. Walcottia cookana Miller and Dyer. CRUSTACEA. Ceratopsis oculifera (Hall). Elpe irregularis (Miller). Ceraurus milleranus Miller and Lichas halli Foerste. Gurley. Placentula marginata Ulrich. Ctenobolbina duryi (Miller). Primitia centralis Ulrich. Elpe cincinnatiensis (Meek). Proetus parviusculus Hall. POSITION UNCERTAIN. Blastophycus diadematum Miller and Dyer. Bythotrephis ramulosa Miller. Licrophycus flabellum Miller and Dyer. Mt. Auburn or Platystrophia lynx Beds. These beds were selected by Prof. Orton to mark the divid- ing line between the Cincinnati beds proper and the Lebanon division, but their thickness is much greater than was proba- bly suspected. At Cincinnati but few localities have an alti- tude great enough to showthem. ‘The city water tanks on Price Hill rest on them; the higher parts of McMillan Street, on Clifton Heights, were cut through them. Over a con- siderable part of Mt. Auburn they formed the surface rock with numerous exposures before the growth of the city covered this beautiful hilltop with residences. The high - ridge extending from west of Price Hill north through West- wood shows these beds wherever cut into. They are finely exposed in Reservoir Creek, north of Lebanon, Ohio. ‘Their thickness is about twenty feet. The lower five to twelve feet contain an abundance of the large Orthid, Platystrophia lynx, known in common parlance as double-headed Dutchman; in the remainder this brachiopod is much less abundant, other- wise the fauna is much the same. The most characteristic bryozoa are the Celoclema oweni and a fine species of Homo- trypa as yet undescribed. The beds are mainly blue shale, though sometimes yellowish in exposure, with some rather a7. 86 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. irregularly bedded limestone. The following fossils occur in addition to those listed on pages 75 and 76. The fauna is mainly bryozoan. ‘These beds have not received much at- tention at the hands of collectors, which may explain the brevity of the following list: BRYOZOA, Amplexopora sp. (c) Dicranopora emacerata (Nichol- Arthropora shafferi (Meek). son). Atactoporella sp. Eridotrypa sp. Berenicea sp. Heterotrypa sp. Bythopora gracilis (Nicholson). Homotrypasp. (c). (c) Peronopora compressa (Ulrich). Callopora sp. ~ decipiens (Rominger). Cerainoporella whitei (James). Petigopora petechialis (Romin- Cceloclema oweni (James). (c) ger). Crepipora simulans Ulrich. Proboscina frondosa (Nicholson). Dekayia sp. Stomatopora inflata Hall. BRACHIOPODA. Platystrophia lynx (Eichwald). (c) Warren or Homotrypa bassleri Beds. The Mt. Auburn beds pass with little distinction into the next series of beds. For these the name Warren beds is pro- posed, because they are exposed in a number of streams in the vicinity of Lebanon, Oregonia, and other places in War- ren County. The most characteristic bryozoan is perhaps the Homotrypa bassleri.* These strata were included by Orton in the Lebanon beds, but their fauna shows them to be much more nearly related to the Lorraine beds beneath than to the Richmond above. ‘Toward the top of this division the layers, both limestone and shale, especially the latter, become rough and nodular, indicating a marked change in the sedimenta- tion. For this reason these layers are considered to mark the close of the Lorraine. Immediately after them come the even-bedded limestones and marly shales of the lower Rich- mond. Limestone is not very abundant in the beds under consideration, whose thickness is about eighty feet. The intercalated shales are of a dark bluish color, rather marly. * For description of this species see this journal, Vol. XX., Article IV. 38 The Geology of Cincinnatt, 87 Fossils do not appear to be nearly as abundant as in beds underlying or overlying. But these beds have received little attention from collectors. Careful collecting may show a large and varied, as well as characteristic fauna.* About thirty-five feet below the top of these beds occurs the stratum of the noted Dinorthis retrorsa (Salter), of very limited extent vertically, but very persistent horizontally. This Orthid is abundant in this stratum, but seems to be restricted to it. The following species are considered to occur in the War- ren beds in addition to those given as ranging through the Lorraine: BRYOZOA. Amplexopora sp. Homotrypa bassleri Nickles. (c) Batostoma varians (James). (c) Leptotrypa? dychei (James). Berenicea sp. Lioclemella sp. Callopora sp. Mesotrypa sp. Ceramoporella granulosa Ulrich, Nicholsonella sp. variety. Peronopora compressa (Ulrich). Ceramoporella whitei (James). ay decipiens (Rominger). ‘ sp. Proboscina frondosa (Nicholson). Cceloclema sp. Rhopalonaria venosa Ulrich. Heterotrypa sp. BRACHIOPODA. Dinorthis retrorsa (Salter). PELECYPODA. Anomalodonta alata Meek. Cymatonota cylindrica (Miller and Ctenodonta madisonensis Ulrich. Faber). Cymatonota constricta Ulrich. - Modiolodon subovalis Ulrich. *[t is quite probable that a few of the forms, which in this paper are listed as belonging to the lower Richmond, will prove to belong to the Warren beds. The recognition of the fact that the Cincinnati period consists of the three well-marked groups, Utica, Lorraine, and Richmond, is comparatively recent. And still more recently has it been seen that in each are well-marked divisions, easily recognized when once the faunal and lithological differences are known. A very large number of the fossils described from the Cincinnati period are rare forms; some are unique, but a single specimen being known. So long asthe idea prevailed that the Cincinnati group, as it was then called, was homogeneous and indivisible, collectors were indif- ferent as to the exact horizon of their finds. Hence, when those who described fos- sils. give simply Cincinnati, Ohio, as the locality, it is often a matter of conjecture from just which particular division the fossil came. For this reason the lists given in this paper must be considered largely provisional. I have to acknowledge grate- fully the very great help I have received in placing the fossils in their various beds from my friends, Messrs. E. O. Ulrich and R. S. Bassler, whose full and accurate knowledge of the Cincinnati fossils and their horizons has been freely at my service. 39 88 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. GASTROPODA. Cyclonema bilix-fluctuatum James. Cyclora pulcella Miller. CEPHALOPODA. Orthoceras mohri Miller. VERMES. Polygnathus wilsoni James. Prioniodus dychei James. CRUSTACEA. Aparchites oblongus Ulrich. Primitia cincinnatiensis (Miller). Ctenobolbina ciliata - hammelli (c) (Miller and Faber). POSITION UNCERTAIN. Dystactophycus mamillanum Miller and Dyer. The Richmond Group. The Richmond embraces the uppermost beds of the Cin- cinnati period. In Ohio and Indiana they form an irregular belt, surrounding Cincinnati at a distance of from thirty to fifty miles. The localities in these States most noted for their fossils are Lebanon (not in the immediate vicinity, how- ever), Freeport or Oregonia, Waynesville, Clarksville, Mor- row, Westboro, Blanchester, Camden, and Oxford in Ohio; Richmond, Weisburg, Versailles, and Madison in Indiana. The rocks are even-bedded limestones, usually dove-colored or grayish rather than bluish, from two to ten or more inches in thickness, with regular shale alternations, the limestone forming from one-fourth to one-half the whole mass. The Richmond has received but little careful, detailed study, not enough to establish the boundaries or lithological characters of the divisions. The indications are that there are three well marked divisions, which for the present are designated as lower, middle, and upper Richmond. The lower Richmond seems to be strongly developed on the eastern side of the Cincinnati uplift, where the middle is feebly developed and the upper probably not at all. The middle division is finely shown at Richmond, Indiana, and at other points on the western side of the uplift. On this same 40 The Geology of Cincinnatt. 89 side the upper is feebly developed toward the north, but becomes stronger toward the south, and probably has its strongest development in Kentucky. The Cumberland sand- stone of Kentucky probably belongs to this division. The Richmond beds of Tennessee,* and those formed in the western and northwestern parts of the ancient interior sea, now exposed at Wilmington and Sterling, Illinois, and Spring Valley, Minnesota, perhaps also those shown at Delafield and Iron Ridge, Wisconsin, all of which have been referred to the Cincinnati period, may represent a phase later than any of the Richmond of Ohio and Indiana. The Richmond group has a very extensive and varied fauna, and, as a whole, very different from the underlying Lorraine. Corals are unknown in the Lorraine, the Rich- mond has a considerable number. The bryozoan fauna of both lower and middle Richmond is very extensive; many new species of bryozoa have been. discovered which await description. The following list contains the species which, so far as present knowledge goes, range through the Richmond. CGLENTERATA. Labechia? papillata (James). (c) Protarea vetusta (Hall), variety. (c) Streptelasma rusticum Billings. (c) ECHINODERMATA. Iocrinus subcrassus Meek and Worthen, varieties. BRYOZOA. Berenicea sp. Ceramoporella granulosa Ulrich, variety. Ceramoporella ohioensis (Nichol- son). (c) Constellaria polystomella Nichol- son. Fenestella granulosa Whitfield. Homotrypa flabellaris Ulrich. (c) Homotrypella sp. Monotrypella quadrata (Romin- Sew\y wee Monotrypella subquadrata Ulrich. Peronopora decipiens(Rominger). (c) : Prasopora hospitalis (Nicholson). _ Stomatopora arachnoidea (Hall). (c) Stomatopora delicatula (James). s inflata (Hall). * For many of the factsin this paragraph I am indebted to Mr. E. O. Ulrich, whose field investigations, particularly in Tennessee, promise to throw a great deal of light upon the Richmond and other Ordivician formations. go Cincinnati Society of Natural History. BRACHIOPODA. Crania lezlia Hall. “<- scabiosa Hall, (ce) Hebertella occidentalis Hall. a sinuata Hall. Platystrophia laticostata (James- Meek), varieties. Rafinesquina alternata .Conrad - Emmons. (c) Rhynchotrema capax (Conrad).(c) Trematis millepunctata Hall. Zygospira modesta Say-Hall. PELECYPODA. Byssonychia radiata (Hall). (c) Ctenodonta obliqua (Hall). Ctenodonta recurva Ulrich. Pterinea demissa Conrad. (c) ~ GASTROPODA. Coleolus iowensis James. Conularia formosa Millerand Dyer. Cyclonema bilix (Conrad). ws bilix-fluctuatum James. Cyclora depressa Ulrich. 3 hoffinanni Miller. a minuta Hall. (c) Cyclora parvula (Hall). Hyolithes parviusculus Hall. Lophospira bowdeni Safford. (c) 4 tropidophora (Meek): Microceras inornatum Hall. (c) Protowarthia cancellata (Hall). (c) Schizolopha moorei Ulrich. CEPHALOPODA. Cameroceras sp. (proteiforme Hall ?). VERMES. Cornulites sterlingensis (Meek and Worthen). Nereidavus varians Grinnell. CRUSTACEA. Aparchites minutissimus (Hall). Asaphus gigas DeKay. as maximus Locke. Bollia persuleata Ulrich. (c) Bythocypris cylindrica (Hall). Calymmene callicephala Green. (c) Ulrichia nodosa (Ulrich). (c) POSITION UNCERTAIN. Arthraria biclavata Miller. Bythotrephis gracilis Hall. a gracilis-crassa Hall. Pasceolus globosus Billings. Rusophycus bilobatum Vanuxem. Lower Richmond Fauna. In addition to the species in the foregoing list, the follow- ing occur in the lower Richmond: SPONGLA. Brachiospongiatuberculata Jamies. Dystactospongia minima Ulrich. Hindia spheeroidalis-parva Ulrich. 42 The Geology of Cincinnati. gI CGALENTERATA. Calopeecia cribriformis Nicholson. Columuaria alyeolata Goldfuss. 5: halli Nicholson. Labechia ohioensis (Nicholson). Megalograptus welchi Miller. ECHINODERMATA. Compsocrinus harrisi (Miller). a miamiensis (Miller). Cyclocystoides magnus Miller and Dyer. Cyclocystoides minus Miller and Dyer. Cyclocystoides mundulus Miller and Dyer. Cyclocystoides parvus Miller and Dyer. Dendrocrinus caduceus (Hall). ie casei Meek. erraticus Miller. Gaurocrinus cognatus (Miller). ss magnificus Miller. ce nealli (Hall). Glyptocrinus? fornshelli Miller. 5 richardsoni Wetherby. Heterocrinus juvenis Hall. Lichenocrinus affinis Miller. Ohiocrinus oehanus (Ulrich). ve Palezaster exculptus Miller. oe harrisi Miller. longibrachiatus Miller. magnificus Miller. miamiensis Miller. simplex Miller. Paleeasterina approximata Miller and Dyer. Palzeasterina speciosa Miller and Dyer. Rhaphanocrinus sculptus( Miller). Streptaster? septembrachiatus (Miller and Dyer). Tanaocrinus typus Wachsmuth and Springer. Teeniaster elegans Miller. es miamiensis (Miller). Urasterella grandis (Meek). Xenocrinus baeri (Meek). a penicillus Miller. BRYOZOA. Amplexopora pustulosa Ulrich. Arthropora shafferi (Meek), va- riety. Atactopora sp. Atactoporella schucherti Ulrich. Batostoma varians (James). (c) Berenicea primitiva Ulrich. Bythopora delicatula (Jaines). (c) a meeki (James). (c)_ Callopora subnodosa Ulrich. “ sp. Calloporella circularis (James). Ceramoporella granulosa. Ulrich, variety. Ceramoporella ohioensis (Nichol- son). Ceramoporella whitei (James). “cc sp. Constellaria limitaris Ulrich. Eridotrypa simulatrix Ulrich. Graptodictya perelegans (Ulrich). Helopora elegans, Ulrich. e harrisi James. Heterotrypa subramosa (Ulrich). Heterotrypa subramosa - prolifica Ulrich. Homotrypa dawsoni (Nicholson). . wortheni (James). (c) a several undescribed species. Homotrypella sp. Lioclemella subfusiformis (James) Monticulipora sp. Nicholsonella sp. Pachydictya fenestelliformis (Nicholson). g2 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. Paleschara beani (James). Proboscina frondosa (Nicholson). Ptilodictya flagellum Nicholson. & nodosa James. Rhinidictya lata (Ulrich). Rhopalonaria venosa Ulrich. Spatiopora corticans (Nicholson). sf montifera Ulrich. s tuberculata (Edwards and Haime). Spatiopora sp. BRACHIOPODA. Catazyga headi (Billings). Dalmanella jugosa James. Dinorthis scovillei (Miller). Hebertella insculpta Hall. Lingula vanhorni Miller. Platystrophia cypha (James). Rafinesquina alternata - alternis- triata (Hall). Rhynchotrema capax - perlamello- sum (Whitfield). Strophomena neglecta James. ~ nutans Meek. & subtenta Conrad. sulcata (Verneuil). vetusta (James). Trematis quincuncialis Miller and Dyer. PELECYPODA. Anomalodonta alata Meek. : costata James. we gigantea Miller. Byssonychia cultrata Ulrich. “ grandis Ulrich. Corallidomus concentricus Whit- field. Ctenodonta albertina Ulrich. i iphigenia Billings. = similis Ulrich. Cuneamya curta Whitfield. = miamiensis Hall and Whitfield. — Cuneaniya neglecta Meek. ie scapha Hall and Whit- field. Cymatonota attenuata Ulrich. - semistriata Ulrich. typicalis Ulrich. Eridonychia crenata Ulrich. Lyrodesina major (Ulrich). Modiolopsis concentrica Hall and Whitfield. Modiolopsis pholadiforinis Hall. ee versaillesensis Miller. Opisthoptera alternata Ulrich. Opisthoptera extenuata Ulrich. ss fissicosta Meek. +: laticostata Ulrich. Orthodesma contractum (Hall). A curvatum Hall and Whitfield. Orthodesma cymbula Miller and Faber. Orthodesma rectum Hall and Whitfield. Orthodontiscus milleri (Meek ). Psiloconcha elliptica Ulrich. i grandis Ulrich. = subrecta Ulrich. Pterinea corrugata (James). 4 subquadrata James. es welchi James. . Sedgwickia? divaricata Hall and Whitfield. Sedgwickia? lunulata Whitfield. Whitella carinata (Meek). cs obliquata Ulrich. of ohioensis Ulrich. “ quadrangularis (Whitfield). e subovata Ulrich. os umbounata Ulrich. 44 The Geology of Cincinnati. 93 GASTROPODA. Archinacella rugatina Ulrich. Plethospira striata Ulrich. Conradella dyeri (Hall), Protowarthia morrowensis ( Miller Cyclonema bilix-conicum Miller. and Dyer). Cyrtolites ornatus Conrad. Protowarthia subcompressa Ulrich. Helcionopsis striata Ulrich. Trochonema madisonense Ulrich. Lophospira perlamellosa Ulrich. CEPHALOPODA. Cyrtoceras faberi James. Orthoceras fosteri Miller. ss irregulare Wetherby. ee hallanum Miller. Gomphoceras indianense Miller Trocholites circularis Miller and and Faber. Dyer. Orthoceras carleyi Hall and Whit- field. VERMES. Spirorbis cincinnatiensis Miller and Dyer. CRUSTACEA. Acidaspis onealli Miller. Lichas harrisi Miller. Beyrichia parallela Ulrich. Primitia glabra Ulrich. Bollia pumila Ulrich. cP milleri Ulrich. “regularis (Emmons). Tetradella lunatifera Ulrich. - Ceratopsis chambersi - robusta : quadrilirata Hall and Ulrich. Whitfield. Ceraurus meekanus Miller. Tetradella quadrilirata - simplex Dalmanites breviceps Hall. Ulrich. Drepanella richardsoni (Miller). ° POSITION UNCERTAIN. Faberia anomala Miller. Trichophycus lanosum Miller and Dyer. Middle Richmond Fauna. In addition to the species previously given as ranging through the Richmond, the following occur in these beds: SPONGIA. Streptospongia labyrinthica Ulrich. CQ@LENTERATA. Streptelasma divaricans (Nicholson). Tetradium minus Safford, variety. 45 94 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. ECHINODERMATA Dendrocrinus polydactylus (Shu- mard). Lepadocrinus moorei (Meek). Lepidodiscus faberi (Miller). Lichenocrinus tuberculatus Miller. BRYOZOA. Batostoma sp. Crepipora sp. Heterotrypa affinis Ulrich. Homotrypa wortheni (James). s several undescribed species. Homotrypella sp. " Leptotrypa stidhami Ulrich. Lioclemella annulifera( Whitfield). Mesotrypa patella (Ulrich). Monticulipora levis Ulrich. laevis - consimilis Ulrich. Monticulipora parasitica Ulrich. 2 sp. Ptilodictya magnifica Miller. plumaria James. BRACHIOPODA. Dinorthis subquadrata Hall. Leptzena rhomboidalis (Wilckens). Platystrophia acutilirata rad). (c) (Con- Rhynchotrema dentatum (Hall). (c) Strophomena rugosa Blainville. PELECYPODA. Anoptera miseneri Ulrich. Byssonychia obesa Ulrich. richmondensis Ulrich. robusta (Miller). subrecta Ulrich. tenuistriata Ulrich. Clionychia excavata Ulrich. Ctenodonta hilli (Miller). Cyrtodonta cuneata (Miller). * halli Nettleroth. Ischyrodonta decipiens Ulrich. " elongata Ulrich. vc Ischyrodonta miseneri Ulrich. modioliformis Ulrich. 7 ovalis Ulrich. truncata Ulrich. Opisthoptera obliqua Ulrich. Orthodesma subangulatum Ulrich. Modiolodon declivis Ulrich. Y subrectus Ulrich. Rhytimya byrnesi (Miller). Sphenolium cuneiforme (Miller). richmondense Miller. ac GASTROPODA. Archinacella indianensis (Miller). = richmondensis Ulrich. Bellerophon mohri Miller. ey subangularis Ulrich. Bucania crassa Ulrich. ‘s gorbyi (Miller). simulatrix Ulrich. Helicotoma marginata Ulrich. Lophospira acuminata Ulrich. ampla Ulrich. Oxydiscus magnus (Miller). Raphistoma richmondense Ulrich. Salpingostoma richmondense Ulrich. Tentaculites richmondensis Miller The Geology of Cincinnati. 5 95 CEPHALOPODA. Cyrtoceras amcenum Miller, Gyroceras baeri (Meek and~ 7 lysander Billings. Worthen). Gomphoceras eos Hall and Whit- ~ field. POSITION UNCERTAIN. Solenopora compacta (Billings). Strephochetus richmondensis Miller. Upper Richmond Fauna. Almost nothing is known as yet of these beds, their thick- ness, distribution, and fossil contents. The list here given is, therefore, probably, very incomplete. Some of the forms given in the list of those ranging through the Richmond occur in these beds, but perhaps not all given in that list. Some of those in the following list may belong to lower beds: SPONGILA. Heterospongia aspera Ulrich. Heterospongia subramosa Ulrich. . knotti Ulrich. CQ@LENTERATA. Beatricea nodulosa Billings. Labechia montifera Ulrich. Le undulata Billings. é ohioensis Nicholson. Columinaria alveolata Goldfuss. BRACHIOPODA. Zygospira kentuckyensis James. PELECYPODA. Ctenodonta cingulata (Ulrich). Opisthoptera casei (Meek and Worthen). GASTROPODA. Lophospira ampla Ulrich. CEPHALOPODA. Cyrtocerina madisonensis Miller. CRUSTACEA. Entomis madisonensis Ulrich. Jonesella digitata Ulrich. Eurychilina striatomarginata Leperditia ceecigena Miller. (Miller). Primitia medialis Ulrich. Isochilina subnodosa Ulrich, variety. 96 ’ Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 3. LIST OF LOCALITIES. For the convenience of students and collectors a list is here given of exposures in the city of Cincinnati, and immediate vicinity, where the various beds may be studied and their fossils collected. The list is not exhaustive. Other expos- ures of greater or less extent may be found. Grading and other improvements are continually affording new exposures, but from becoming overgrown and other causes, dumps, and even cuts are in a few years spoiled for geological purposes. All the strata have been exposed at one time or another, but not all are now exposed. The list given must be regarded, at best, as but temporary. On the map (Plate I), the location of these exposures has been indicated, the abbreviations be- ing placed as nearly as possible upon the exact locations. The map is a partial reproduction of a part of the Cincin- nati sheet of the Topographic Map of the U. S. Geological Survey. TRENTON PERIOD. The principal exposures are on the south bank of the Ohio from West Covington to Ludlow; at the mouth of the Lick- ing River (Covington side); two outcrops on the west bank of the Licking River in Covington; several small streams flowing into the Licking south of Newport and Covington, cut into the Trenton as well as afford exposures of the lower Utica strata; débris from Trenton strata has been thrown out in excavating the new water-works tunnels; the south bank of the Ohio River in the vicinity of Fort Thomas shows the Trenton outcropping; several quarries, now abandoned, on the road between New Richmond and Point Pleasant, in Clermont County, Ohio, have been opened in Trenton strata. CINCINNATI PERIOD. UTICA GROUP. Lower Utica.—The lowest strata of the Utica may bé found in the north bank of the Ohio in the First Ward (Fulton), and in the south bank of the Ohio overlying the Trenton 48 The Geology of Cincinnatt. 97 between West Covington and Ludlow, but the exposures are © seldom satisfactory; the same strata may be seen overlying the Trenton in the Ohio River bank near Fort Thomas. Strata somewhat higher have been cut into along the line of the Ludlow cars in West Covington, where the car line leaves the river bank; also in a grading two or three blocks south from the old “ Post & Co. factory,” on the south bank of the Ohio, near Ludlow. The strata overlying these may be seen in a creek south of Lexington Pike, shortly after leaving Covington, near the ‘‘elbow;” probably, also, in other streams, but the fossils can seldom be had without “digging” for them. Many of the more delicate forms can be obtained in no other way. Middle Utica.—The middle and upper Utica are exposed along the line of the Elberon Avenue cars in Sedamsville ; in Fairmount, on Shadwell Street, one block south of West- wood Avenue; in West Fork and its branches, west of Cum- minsville; in Economy or West Covington, a block or two distant from the line of the Ludlow cars; at Cote Brilliante, in the southeastern part of Newport, Kentucky; at two or three points along the line of the Monmouth cars south of Newport; and at several points along the line of the Fort Thomas cars. Upper Utica.—Abuts on Clifton Avenue, under the Klm- Street Incline Plane; across the valley, north from Dixmyth Avenue, in West Clifton, is a good exposure; occasional ex- posures also occur at other points in Clifton; West Fork and some of its branches, west of Cumminsville, expose the upper Utica; also the hillsides south of Newport and Cov- ington show these strata at several places. LORRAINE GROUP. Mt. Hope Beds.—The best exposures known to the writer are near Mt. Hope Road, on the southeastern slope of Price Hill, and on Mitchell Avenue, in Avondale, near Rose Hill Park. They may also be seen on Clifton Avenue, near the Elm- Street Incline Plane, and in the quarry on the hill nearest the Licking, immediately south of Newport. 49 98 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. Fairmount Beds.—These are the beds usually opened in quarries. The fossils are generally obtained by hunting over the “‘dumps.”’ Quarries are found on Price Hill near Elberon Avenue, and near Mt. Hope Road; in Fairmount; in North Fairmount; on Robert Avenue, Westwood; on the north side of Fairview hill; on Clifton Avenue opposite Burnet Woods Park; on Madison Avenue, Walnut Hills; on the east side of Reading Road or Hunt Street, south of McMillan Street; on the hillsides south of Newport and Covington; near St. Johns Park; on the hillside east of Madisonville. Bellevue Beds.—These strata may be seen projecting near the top of the hill at the Fairview Incline Plane; near the top of the bluff on Clifton Avenue, just north of the bend, not far from the Elm-Street Incline Plane; on Clifton Avenue opposite Burnet Woods Park; and on Francisco Street in Walnut Hills. Corryville Beds.—Small exposures are found at several places on Price Hill; a number of exposures may be seen on Fairview Heights, within two or three blocks of the Fairview Incline Plane; also on the north side of McMillan Street, east of Fairview Avenue; and on McMillan Street east of Reading Road. Mt. Auburn Beds.—The street just east of the Water Tanks on Price Hill (Grand Avenue) has been cut through these beds; they are also exposed at and near the corner of Cal- houn Street and Clifton Avenue. Warren Beds.—These beds are not exposed at or near Cincinnati. Streams in the vicinity of Lebanon and Ore- gonia, Ohio, afford typical exposures. 4. BIBLIOGRAPHY. CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL PAPERS RELATING TO THE GEOLOGY OF CINCINNATI. 1838.—Locke, John. Geological Report. (Second Ann. Report, Geol. Sur. Staté of Ohio, Columbus, 1838, pp. 201-274, especially pp. 205-211.) 1873.— Newberry, J. S. Structure and Age of the Cincinnati Anti- clinal. (Rep. Geol. Sur. ‘Ohio, I, 1873, pp. 93-103.) The Cincinnati Group. (Ibid., pp. 116-126.) 50 The Geology of Cincinnati. 99 1873.-— Orton, Edward. Geology of the Cincinnati Group. (Rep. Geol. Sur. Ohio, I, 1873, pp. 365-418.) The Geology of Hamilton County. (Ibid., pp. 419-434.) 1879. —Miller, S. A. Report of Committee on Geological Nomen- clature. (Jour. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. His., I, 1879, pp. 193-194.) 1879.— James, U. P. Geological Nomenclature. The Cincinnati Group —The “Hudson River Group.’ (The Paleontologist, No. 4, July to, 1879, pp. 27, 28.) [Objects to the report of the Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. Committee on Geological Nomenclature.] 1882. —Linney, W. M. Notes on the Rocks of Central Kentucky. (Geological Survey of Kentucky, J. R. Proctor, Director, 1882, pp. I-19.) 1886.— James, Joseph F. The Geology of Cincinnati. (Jour. Cin- cinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., [X, 1886, pp. 20-31, 136-141.) 1887.— James, Joseph F. Account of a well drilled for oil or gas at Oxford, Ohio, May and June, 1887. (Jour. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., X, 1887, pp. 70-77.) 1888.—Jamies, Joseph F. An ancient channel of the Ohio River at Cincinnati. (Jour. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., XI, 1888, pp. 96-101.) 1888.— James, Joseph F. The Ivorydale well in Mill Creek valley. (Jour. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., XI, 1888, pp. 102-104.) 1888.— Orton, Edward. The Geology of Ohio. (Rep. Geol. Sur. Ohio, VI, 1888, pp. 4-10.) 1888.— Ulrich, E.O. A Correlation of the Lower Silurian Horizons of Tennessee and of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys with those of New York and Canada. (American Geologist, I, 1888, pp. 100-110, 179-190, 305-315; II, 1888, pp. 39-44.) 1889.— James, Joseph F. Remarks upon Sedimentation in the Cin- cinnati Group. (Jour. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., XII, 1889, pp. 34-36.) 1889.— Orton, Edward. The Trenton Limestone as a source of Petroleum and Inflammable Gas in Ohio and Indiana. (Eighth Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Sur., 1889, Part II, pp. 475-662, especially pp. 546-7, 556-8, 573-580. ) 1889.— Perry, Nelson W. The Cincinnati Rocks; what has been their physical history. (American Geologist, IV, 1889, pp. 326-336.) 1890.— Orton, Edward. Geological Scale and Geological Structure of Ohio, (First Ann. Rep. Geol. Sur. Ohio. Third Organization. Columbus, 1890, pp. 10-16.) 1891.— Foerste, Aug. F. The Age of the Cincinnati Anticlinal. (American Geologist, VII, 1891, pp. 97-109.) 1891.— James, Joseph F., On the Age of the Pt. Pleasant, Ohio, Beds. (Jour. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., XIV, 1891, pp. 93-104.) 1895.— Orton, Edward. Geological Scale and Geological Structure of Ohio. (Rep. Geol. Sur. Ohio, VII, 1893 [1895], pp. 4-9.) 51 100 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 1898.— Fowke, Gerard. Pre-glacial Drainage in the Vicinity of Cincinnati; its relation to the origin of the modern Ohio River, and its bearing upon the question of the southern limits of the ice-sheet. (Bull. Sci. Lab. Denison Univ., XI, 1898, pp. I-10.) 1900.— Fowke, Gerard. Pre-glacial Drainage Conditions in the Vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio. (Ohio State Academy of Science, Special Papers, No. 3, 1900, pp. 68-75.) 1901.—Cumings, Edgar R. A Section of the Upper Ordovician at Vevay, Indiana. (American Geologist, XXVIII, 1go1, pp. 361-381, pls. XXXIV, XXXv.) 1898.— United States Geological Survey. Topographic Map. East and West Cincinnati Quadrangles. Surveyed in 1898. Contour interval, 20 feet. CATALOGUES OF CINCINNATI FOSSILS. 1871.— James, U. P. Catalogue of the Lower Silurian Fossils, Cin- cinnati Group, found at Cincinnati and vicinity — within a rangé of forty or fifty miles. Cincinnati, 1871. I4pp. Second Edition, April, 1875. 8pp. Supplement, July 10, 1879, in Paleontologist, No. 4, 1879, Pp. 29-32. 1873.— Orton, Edward. Catalogue of the Described Fossils of the Cincinnati Group as shown in southwestern Ohio. (Rep. Geol. Sur. Ohio, I, 1873, pp. 400-411.) 1878.— Mickleborough, John, and Wetherby, A.G. A Classified List of Lower Silurian Fossils, Cincinnati Group. (Jour Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., I, 1878, pp. 61-86.) 1879.— Miller, S. A. Catalogue of Fossils found in the Hudson River, Utica Slate, and Trenton Groups, as exposed in the southeast part of Indiana, southwest part of Ohio, and northern part of Ken- tucky. (Eighth-Ninth-Tenth Ann. Reports [one volume] Geol. Sur. Indiana, 1879, pp. 22-56.) 1880.— Ulrich, E.O. Catalogue of Fossils occurring in the Cincin- nati Group of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. Cincinnati, 1850. 31Ipp. 1881.— James, Joseph F. Catalogue of the Fossils of the Cincin- nati Group. Cincinnati, 1881. 27pp. 1896.— Harper, G. W., and Bassler, R. S. Catalogue of the Fossils of the Trenton and Cincinnati Periods, occurring in the vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati, 1896. 34pp. 52 1) i eet) nal’, L eocop ll ott eS ‘ Ne Sevpoigt * ‘it Ua 5 ok ee | Von. XX, No.2. ARv. 3. ole journal of the Cit aw ( Ry ) ; ae Naat ‘\ oe > WN ee ee C es: Se \ & | ig aN of aa oT Om Ups atte La= Warren Beds Gras Mt diel Ges bewimonisen 4 Ul = Lower Lin= Corryville n° : Lo= Bellevue a Lorraine Teel eaten ae pan 3 Contour Interval -- 100 Feet Datum::- Sea Leyel. 0 % 1 Scale. 5 3 Miles 2 VI, / Fo ava es o 6 EXPOSURES SW Wedel. doc. Ratural History. ty rm Mens need liad nl Mie oy a ACESS jay 4 : apes eT QP Tt, : Ty y | oa a i f Alm is > , Sia) ; ; : bal CRE he ay ihe ek Vie beat ie oa aR , Pv iii lies sk ee tee fy Poet ri : = a A New Bryozoan, Homotrypa Basslert. 103, ARTICLE IV.—DESCRIPTION OF A NEW BRYO- ZOAN, “HOMOTRYPA BASSLERI” n. sp., FROM THE WARREN BEDS OF THE LORRAINE GROUP. By JOHN M. NICKLES. HOMOTRYPA BASSLERI 0. sp. Zoarium dwarfish in habit of growth, consisting of flattened, branching fronds, which have gradually expanded from almost cylindrical stems without increasing any in thickness. No specimens showing basal portion or mode of attachment have been observed. Branches usually given off in the same plane as the frond, oftenest by bifurcation, though they are sometimes given off from the side. Examples used in preparing this description, none of them complete, vary from 15 to 32 mm. in height, from 5 to 9 mm. in width, and are about 3 mm. in thickness. Surface studded with low, rounded monticules, a little over one mm. in diameter, and from one to two mm.apart; rarely the monticules are almost obsolete. Apertures rather small, 9 or 10 in 2 mm., sub- circular or subangular, often a little oblique to the surface; on the monticules the apertures, as is commonly the case, are a trifle larger than the others. In the axial region the zocecia have very thin walls, rather less flexuous and crinkled than is the rule in this genus; the zocecia bend rather abruptly to the peripheral region, where they have their walls much thickened; after making the turn they proceed at right angles to the surface in some specimens, in others a little obliquely. No diaphragms developed in the axial region and but very few in the mature region. Cystiphragms line the upper side of the zocecia in a single row in the peripheral region, their walls attenuating toward the back, indicating that in the living state calcification was more or less incom- plete. The arrangement of the layers forming the walls is well shown in the enlarged view of a tangential section of a single cell, Figure 5, which shows also the appearance of the cystiphragms when cut across, and the structure of the Jour. Crn. Soc. Nat. HIST., VOL. XX, No. 2. I PRINTED JANUARY 10, 1902. 104 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. acanthopores. Acanthopores about twice as numerous as the cells, not conspicuous; few specimens show them on the surface. A small number of irregular, angular interspaces simulating mesopores are seen in tangential sections and also on the surface. Figures 1 and 2.— Natural size views of two rather large examples, neither complete. Figure 3.— Portion of a vertical section, 20. Figure 4.— Portion of a tangential section, x 20. Figure 5.— A tan- gential section of a single zocecium, showing wall structure and structure of acanthopores, X 40. This species is so readily distinguished by its small, dwarf- ish, flattened growth, tuberculated surface and small aper- tures from all bryozoa found associated in the same beds, and from other species of the genus hitherto described, that detailed comparison seems unnecessary. It belongs to a section of the genus Homotrypa, which attains a wide devel- opment in the Richmond group. 2 A New Bryozoan Homotrypa Basslert., 105 It seems a little singular that the genus Homotrypa, while well represented in the various groups of the Trenton period, is practically lacking in the Utica and sparingly developed in the Lorraine, with from one to three characteristic species in each of its divisions, except the lowest; in the Richmond the genus becomes very prolific in species. A very large number of new species, principally from the Richmond, are known that await description. This species was discovered by the writer while collecting fossils in company with Messrs. E. O. Ulrich and R. S. Bassler, in June, 1899, in the vicinity of Oregonia and Lebanon, Ohio. It was at this time, also, that it was recog- nized that these beds form the highest division of the Lor- raine. While not ranging entirely through the Warren beds of the Lorraine group, this species is one of the most charac- teristic fossils of these beds, and is restricted to them. The specific name is given in honor of my esteemed friend and former co-worker, Mr. R. S. Bassler, now of the U. S. National Museum. Formation and locality: A common and _ characteristic species of the Warren beds which form the uppermost division of the Lorraine group of the Cincinnati period. The specimens studied were collected in the vicinity of Lebanon, Ohio; and near Oregonia, Ohio. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. Page 4, add: Clzvina analis Putz. ce oe 7h Dicelus ambiguus Lat. Te (HYDROPHILIDA) Aydrena pennsylvanica Kies. Mee Pa Ptomaphagus oblitus Lec. 18, leave out: Microcyptus testaceus. 19, add: Oxyporus quinquemaculatus Lec. HOE hi Lispinus exiguus Er. 20, for Photinus read: Pyrotinus. 20, add: (TRICHOPTERYGIDA) Limulodes paradoxus Matth. 7 SR (PHALACRID) Phalacrus politus Melsh. 22, line 2, for noveninotata read: xovemmnotata. 22, line 12, for bivulneratus read: dzvulnerus. 22,add: (ENDOMYCHIDA) Mycetea hirta Marsh. 23, line 18, for bivittatus Gerst, read: d7gutlatus Say. 26, add: Jno reclusa Lec. alee Dermestes caninus Germ. oh Byturus unicolor Say. Be iy: Cryptorhopalum triste Lec. Say 4: Saprinus lugens Er. 29, for AULETES read ASLETES, and add: @. politus ec: ; 30, add: Brachypterus urtice Fab. 7 (TROGOSITIDA) Lycoptus villosus Csy. gee aes Limnichus punctatus Lec. ee (PARNID) Psephenus lecontet Lec. Lutrochus luteus Tec. Dryops lithophilus Germ. D. fastigiatus Say. Stenelmis linearis Zinm. S. bicarinatus Lec. S. crenatus Say. Page 36, add: Slater sayi Lec. . ae ila Actenodes mendax Horn. 41, under Pyractomena, retain P. angulata and lucifera, and insert the genus PHO7/NUS, comprising the species, pyralis, marginellus, and scintillans. ‘““ a1, add: TZytthonyx erythrocephalus Fab. BG Sy pte (PTINID) Lasioderma serricorne Fab. 45, leave out: Sinoxylon sextuberculatum. ‘* 46, for Sphindus denticollis, read: Odontosphindus dentt- ae collis Lec. ‘* 46, add: Sphindus americanus Lec. ea At (LUCANID) Ceruchus piceus Web. go We: To a Aphodius vittatus Say. ae ee 50, Cyclocephala immaculata Oliv. 57, line 2, for submarginatus, read: subarmatus. 57, add: Saperda candida Fab. ihc oie iE Orsodacna atra Ahr. Pi oa) Pent Diphautlaca bicolorata Horn. bey 0) bial Flaltica bimarginata Say. ty MODS io Chetocnema minutum*® Melsh. 62, leave out: Longitarsus solidaginis Horn. 65, after description of Hypophlceus rugosus, add: Prof. E. A. Schwarz, of the U. S. National Museum, suggests that this may bea form of Lyphia ficicola Mul- sant, which has been taken at Washington, D. C., where it is said to have been introduced. My specimens oc- curred in numbers under the bark of old logs, in thick woods, several years in succession, and were evidently breeding, as they were in couples. L,. ficicola is said to live in figs. ; “* 75, for AMNESIA, read: ANAMETIS. 79, last line, for angusta, read: angustula. 81, Dryotribus mimeticus is a maritime species. The speci- men said to have been found here, may have been accidentally brought in with white sand from the Gulf coast. *In this, as in many other instances in the present paper, the termination of the specific name has been changed so as to conform to the grammatical gender of the gen- eric name, even though contrary to established usage. For these changes the Editor of the Journal is, alone, responsible. a & ATURAL HIS Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 107 ARTICLE V.—A REVISED LIST OF THE COLEOPTERA OBSERVED NEAR CINCINNATI, OHIO, WITH NOTES ON LOCALITIES, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES, AND DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES. By CHARLES Dury. In this journal, October, 1879, I published a list of the Coleop- tera observed in the vicinity of Cincinnati, enumerating 1,419 species. In stipplemental papers (1882) added 179 species. Long continued and more careful collecting has revealed many other, rare and interesting forms. Changes in environment that have taken place, have caused many species to become rare or. disappear altogether, while some new to the locality have been introduced. Conspicuous among these are the destructive ‘clover root beetle” (Phytonomus punctatus) and the “pea green Dia- brotica” (Diabrotica longicormis), etc. Some others that are perhaps beneficial have also made their appearance, among which may be mentioned the large showy “Lady bugs” Coccinella (Neoharmoma) venusta and notulata. The area covered in making the collections, on which this list is based, is the same as that given in former list mentioned above. The twenty-three years that have elapsed since that publication has wrought great changes in the local collectors of Coleoptera, all, save one, having either gone to their last resting places or removed from the state. But few new workers in this interesting order have come into the field. Annette Braun, with mother and sister, have made a very fine collection of local insects and added some rare species to the fauna of the locality. Their well pre- pared material can not be surpassed. Our dear, old friend, Dr. Geo. H. Horn, of Philadelphia, died November 25, 1897. His loss was a calamity severely felt by students of Nortlf American Coleoptera. His many excellent papers and the thousands of specimens gratuitously determined by him for others, bear testi- mony to the vast amount of work done by this unassuming and talented gentleman. And all this accomplished in moments snatched from a busy professional life, actuated only by love of the science. Four hundred and forty-eight of this list were originally de- scribed by Thos. Say, the pioneer entomologist who lived at New Harmony, Ind., the faunze of Cincinnati and of that place being almost identical. I can not too strongly urge our young people to study the insects, or some other branch of Nature’s creatures. it 108 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. Her methods are so fascinating and wonderful. As I look back over the past thirty years, much of which time has been spent in fields and woods, it brings back only one regret, and that is, that I can not go over it all again. It has been one long round of health-giving pleasure. Our beautiful woodland, with its wealth of varied bird, insect and plant life, is a revelation to those whose eyes become trained to see and understand nature’s beau- ties. During the warmer months the forest is alive with insects, all striving to accomplish the great purpose with which they are endowed, the perpetuation of the species. Many of them em- ploying the most intelligent and cunning devices to accomplish this end. In answer to the often repeated question “what books shall IJ get to help in a study of Coleoptera,’ I enumerate some of those which I have found most useful. The word “Jyrans.,’ often used, refers to the Transactions of the American Entomological Society of Philadelphia. Such papers as are not out of print can be fur- nished by the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Some general works that are very desirable to students are classification of the “Coleoptera of North America,” and “Rhyncophora,” by LeConte and Horn; Packard’s “Guide to the Study of Insects ;” Comstock’s “Manual ;” papers on North American Coleoptera, by Maj. Thos. L. Casey, published in annals of New York Academy of Sciences, and New York Entomological Soc.; “Fifth Annual Report of the Entomologist of Minn.,” by our lamented friend Prof. Lugger (his reports on the other orders are very valuable also). This list enumerates 64 families, 828 genera and 1,888 species, and describes 6 new ones. CINCINDELIDZ. ‘igen Beetles: TETRACHA. . T. virginica Linn. CICINDELA. unipunctata Fab. . sexguttata Fab. purpurea Oliv. formosa Say. generosa De}. vulgaris Say. repanda De}. hirticollis Say. punctulata Fab. cuprascens Lec. marginipennis De}. omelelelelele elelelele . purpurea was taken here years ago, and again recently. 1 never saw Tetracha virginica here, until 1899. June 28, 19009, they were flying and running about under the electric lights by es ~ Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. | 109 hundreds. Bull, Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 1883, p. 77, says of this species: “winged, but does not fly.” It does fly nevertheless. They occur here from June to October 2. C. marginipennis was never observed here until May 17, 1899, when about 25 were taken near Batavia Junction, on a sand bar of the Little Miami river. C. cuprascens occurs on the sand bars of the Ohio river in vast numbers. C. untpunctata and C. sexguttata live in the woods. C. generosa and C. formosa occur in sand pits. C. punctulata occurs everywhere. Most of the others are found along sandy flats and banks of streams. ‘They are very active, and a good net is required to effect their capture. For a Monograph of Cincin- delidze see Bulletin Brooklyn Entomological Soc., Nov., 1883, and Revision of the Cicindelidze of Boreal America, by Chas. W. Leng, Trans. xxviil, 1902, p. 93. This exhaustive and complete paper just received. Every student should have a copy. CARABID/A. “Rapacious Ground Beetles.” OMOPHRON. O. robustum Horn. QO. tessellatum Say. ©. americanum Dej. The sandy shores of Mill Creek was the home of these curious little bettles; hundreds could be secured by throwing water over the sloping banks, when Omophron, with many other small beetles, would emerge and run up the banks, some of the Carabidz and Heteroceridz instantly taking flight. Omophron however do not fly and were easily captured. On July 10, 1878, I took 365, divided as follows, 180 O. tessellatum, 147 O. robustum, and 38 O. americanum. Then, Mill Creek was clean, with sandy banks and pebbly bottom. Now it has become a vile open sewer, the sand is saturated with sewage, which decays and gives off deadly gases, destroying all fish and insect life. For synoptic table of Omophron see Bull, Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 1878, p. 71. CYCHRUS. C. stenostomus Web. C. elevatus var. heros Harr. C. lecontei Dej. C. andrewsii Bland. C. canadensis Chd. All Cychrus have become rare here. I have not seen C. an- drewsi or C. heros for years. C. heros, when living is one of the most beautiful of the genus, its rich, purple color and grace- ful form renders it very conspicuous. We trapped many C. heros by placing flat stones along the edge of woods, finding the beetles concealed beneath. 2 o 110 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. CARABUS. C. limbatus Say. C. vinctus Web. CALOSOMA., C. externum Say. C. sayii Dej. C. scrutator Fab. C. calidum Fab. C. wilcoxi Lec. C. sayu is rare here, the others common. The electric lights attract great numbers of these useful beetles, many of which are crushed and otherwise destroyed. During May, 1902, C. scrutator was abundant, feeding on “canker worms.” ELAPHRUS. FE. ruscarius Linn. Found about wet places, where it runs over the moist ground. NOTIOPHILUS. N. semistriatus Say. N. sibericus Mots. Notiophilus lives under moist decaying leaves. Alongside oi an old barn I took hundreds of these active beetles. They were concealed under rubbish and fallen grass. NEBRIA. N. pallipes Say. PASIMACHUS, P. elongatus Lec. P. punctulatus Hald. SCARITES. S.:subterraneus Fab. DYSCHIRIUS. D. hzmorrhoidalis Dej. D. erythrocerus Lec. D. longulus Lec. D. brevispinus Lec. D. globulosus Say. D. hispidus Lec. D. sphezericollis Say. Dyschirius are abundant, if looked for along the sandy shores of streams and will come out when water is thrown over the sand. CLIVINA. . C. dentipes Dej. C. bipunctata Fabr. C. impressifrons Lec. C. postica Lec: Cy collars Frost C. rubicunda Lec. SCHIZOGENIUS. S. lineolatus Say. S. ferrugineus Putz. 4 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. : 111 ARDISTOMIS. A. viridis Say. A. puncticollis Putz. The last three genera, like Dyschirius, can be found abundantly along the shores of rivers and creeks. PANAGAUS. P. crucigerus Say. P. fasciatus Say. Both species were always rare here. Have taken them hiding under drift-wood on bank of Ohio river. BEMBIDIUM. . picipes Kby. . cordatum Lec. . dorsale Say. . variegatum Say. intermedium Kby. . versicolor Lec. quadrimaculatum Linn. . affine Say. . levigatum Say. . ineequale Say. . punctatostriatum Say. coxendix Say. confusum Hayward. americanum Dej. -honestum Say. . chalceum De}. . nigrum Say. The Bembidium are abundant along the shores of streams. They are active little things, running rapidly when disturbed, quickly hiding under stones or in cracks in the ground. The spe- cies are rather difficult to separate unless named types are avail- able for comparison. ‘The latest paper on the genus is one by Roland Hayward: Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. xxiv, p. 4. cclluslosMeclosleslosleslss cchesMesluclosloslesise ANILLUS. A. fortis Horn. I have only taken a single specimen of this minute, pale, eyeless carabid. It was under a flat stone, where a colony of pale ants had their nest. A cluster of Microcyptus testaceus were also present in the nest. TACHYS. T. scitulus Lec. ia cleevas, Sage T. nanus Gyll. T. incurvus Say. T. flavicaudus Say. Do wivax Lec T. tripunctatus Say. T. xanthopus De7. T. ferrugineus Dej. T. dolosus Lec. T. granarius De}. Tachys are found in various places, under bark, in decaying wood, along the shores of streams, etc. TJ. laevis is the smallest carabid I have taken here, being only 2.75 mm. long. The latest paper on the genus is by R. Hayward: Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. XXVI, p. IOI. 5 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. PERICOMPSUS. P. sellatus Lec. PATROBUS. P. longicornis Say. ZUPHIUM, Z. americanum Dej. TETRAGONODERUS. T. fasciatus Hald. LEBIA. ornata Say. analis De}. fuscata De}. abdominalis Chd. scapularis Dey. vittata Fab. grandis Hentz. atriventris Say. pulchella Dej. viridis Say. pumila Dej. viridipennis Dej. lobulata Lec. Ss San ae a Sac a ee COPTODERA. C. xrata Dej. This species is always found under the loose bark of trees and not beaten from vegetation as are many of the Lebia. DROMIUS. D. piceus Dej. D. quadricollis Lec. BLECHRUS. B. pusio Lec. CALLIDA. C. punctata Lec. PLOCHIONUS. P. timidus Hald. MYAS. M. coracinus Say. M. cyanescens Dej. I never found either of these pretty blue species abundantly, of the first about eight, and the second only one, in over twenty- five years collecting. PTEROSTICHUS. P. adoxus Say. P. rostratus Newm. P. obsoletus Say. P. stygicus Say. P. honestus Say. P. permundus Say. P. obscurus Say. P. sayii Brulle. P. femoralis Kby. P. tartaricus Say. Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 113 P. lacrymosus Newm. P. lucublandus Say. P. coracinus Newm. P. mutus Say. The species of Pterostichus are quite difficult to separate. This is particularly the case with the black species, where the series is large. For a synopsis of the genus see Bull, Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 1882, vol. v. EVARTHRUS. E. seximpressus Lec. FE. acutus Lec. E. sigillatus Say. E. sodalis Lec. E. americanus Dej. E. furtivus Lec, AMARA. A. avida Say. Ax fallax Le. A. furtiva Say. A. polita Lec. ee exataras eT. A. interstitialis De7. A. angustata Say. A. terrestris Lec. A. impuncticollis Say. A. musculus Say. A. cupreolata Putz To identify the species of Amara see synoptic table by Horn: Trans., 1875, vol. v, p. 127-8. They are a difficult group. LOXANDRUS. L. erraticus Dey. L. minor Chd. Loxandrus, for some unknown reason, is exceedingly rare here. I have only taken three or four specimens in many years. When fresh, some of the species have a beautiful “mother of pearl” iridescence. DICELUS. D. dilatatus Say. D. ovalis Lec. D. purpuratus Bon. D. elongatus Bon. D. sculptilis Say. Db: teter bon: D. furvus De}. D. politus Dej. Dicelus are large and common beetles, easily separated. See synoptic table by Horn: Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 1880, vol. 111, Ppp. 51-52. CALATHUS. C. gregarius Say. C. opaculus Lec. PLATYNUS. P. caudatus Lec. P. crenistriatus Lec. P. hypolithus Say. P. rubripes Zimm. P. sinuatus Dej. P. punctiformis Say. P. extensicollis Say. P. ruficornis Lec. P. viridis Lec. P. octopunctatus Fab. P. ferreus Hald. P. placidus Say. P. melanarius Dej. P. excavatus Dej. 114 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. P. atratus Lec. P. obsoletus Say. P. variolatus Lec. P. zruginosus De}. The Platynus are more or less abundant, except P. caudatus. Of this odd looking species, only one specimen has ever been taken here, and that was found by Dr. .J. M. Crawford on the shore of a creek, under a stone. OLISTHOPUS. O. parmatus Say. PERIGONA. P. nigriceps Dej. EUPHORTICUS. E. pubescens Dey. ATRANUS. A. pubescens Dey. LEPTOTRACHELUS. L. dorsalis Fab. CASNONIA. C. pennsylvanica Linn. GALERITA. G. janus Fab. G. bicolor Drury. PINACODERA. P. limbata Dej. CYMINDIS. C. americana De}. C. pilosa Say. APENES. . A. lucidula Dey. A. sinuata Say. HELLUOMORPHA. H. przusta De}. H. bicolor Harr. BRACHYNUS. B. americanus Lec. B. fumans Fab. B. perplexus Dey. B. cordicollis Dey. CHLAENIUS. C. erythropus Germ. C. tricolor Dej. C. sericeus, /orst. C. brevilabris Lec. C. diffinis Chd. C. pennsylvanicus Say. C. prasinus Dej. ; C. impunctifrons Say. C. leucoscelis Cher. C. tomentosus Say. C. nemoralis Say. Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. lal ANOMOGLOSSUS. A. emarginatus Say. A. pusillus Say. BRACHYLOBUS. B, lithophilus Say. OODES. O. cupreus Chd. O. 14 striatus Chd. GEOPINUS. G. incrassatus Dej. This species burrows deeply in the sand, where it lives. I have trapped them by laying a flat board on the sand, and in wet weather they come to the surface, and hide under the board. CRATACANTHUS. C. dubius Beauv. AGONODERUS. A. lineola Fab. A. partiarius Say. A. infuscatus Dej. A. indistinctus Dej. A. pallipes Fab. A. testaceus Dej. HARPALUS. H. dichrous Dej. H. faunus Say. H. vulpeculus Say. H. herbivagus Say. H. caliginosus Fab. H. nitidulus Chd. i ehtaticus Sas wiimoranis ee: H. pennsylvanicus De G. H. testaceus Lec. H. longior Kby. During nights of August 6 and 7, 1890, swarms of H. caligi- nosus came into Cincinnati, attracted by the electric lights. The streets and sidewalks were covered in places with their crushed remains. SELENOPHORUS. S. gagatinus Dej. S. conjunctus Say. | STENOLOPHUS. S. ochropezus Say. BRADYCELLUS. B. rupestris Say. TACHYCELLUS. T. atrimedius Say. T. badiipennis Hald. ANISODACTYLUS. ; A. interstitialis Say. A. baltimorensis Say. A. rusticus De]. A. piceus Men. A. carbonarius Say. A. terminatus Say. 116 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. A. agricola Say. A. nitidipennis Lec. A. harrisii Lec. A. lugubris De]. A. discoideus De}. A. sericeus Harr. Synoptic tables of many of the families of CARABIDZ can be found in Bulletin of the Brooklyn Ent. Soc. from 1879 to 1882. HALIPLIDZE. “Crawling Water Beetles.” HALIPLUS. H. punctatus Aube. H. ruficollis De G. CNEMIDOTUS. C. simplex Lec. C. edentulus Lec. C. duodecimpunctatus Say. These little beetles crawl about over aquatic plants, the bottom of ponds and creeks. They are not nearly as active as the follow- ing families. All of the aquatic beetles can be captured by dredg- ing with a strongly made wire net, with small mesh. DYSEISCID AS, HYDROCANTHUS. H. iricolor Say. LACCOPHILUS. L. maculosus Germ. L. fasciatus Aube. L. proximus Say. _ HYDROVATUS. H. cuspidatus Germ. BIDESSUS. B. affinis Say. B. undescribed species. B. lacustris Say. CCELAMBUS. C. acaroides Lec. C. nubilus Lec. C. turbidus Lec. HYDROPORUS. H. concinnus Lec. H. consimilis Lec. H. pulcher Lec. . H. modestus Aube. H. undulatus Say. ILYBIUS. I. biguttatus Germ. COPTOTOMUS. C. interrogatus Fab. 10 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 117 COPELATUS. C. glyphicus Say. MATUS. M. bicarinatus Say. AGABUS. A. stagninus Say. A. teniolatus Harr. A. semivittatus Lec. I have found this last species feeding on a bit of earth worm, floating in water. Placing my net under the worm, and raising 1% up, I counted 43 of the beetles. DYTISCUS. D. fasciventris Say. D. harrisii Kby. D. hybridus Aube. ACILIUS. A. semisulcatus Aube. A. fraternus Harr. THERMONECTES. T. basilaris Harr. T. fasciaticollis Harr. CYBISTER. C. fimbriolatus Say. GYRINID-A. “Surface Whirligigs.” GYRINUS. G. confinis Lec. G. lugens Lec. G. analis Say. DINEUTUS. D. discolor Aube. D. assimilis Aube. HYDROPHIEIDA: HELOPHORUS. H. lineatus Say. HYDROPHILUS. H. ovatus H. & G. H. glaber Hbst. H. triangularis Say. H. striolatus Lec. H. nimbatus Say. Excepting Dytiseus harrisi, the first two are the largest water beetles found here. H. ovatus is shorter and broader and has the triangular piece, into which the anterior end of the sternal spine rests, open. H. triangularis is very common, and has the triangle mentioned above closed and complete. alr 118 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. HYDROCHARIS. H. obtusatus Say. BEROSUS. B. peregrinus Hbst. B. striatus Say. LACCOBIUS. L. agilis Rand. PHILHYDRUS. P. nebulosus Say. P. cinctus Say. P. ochraceus Mels. HYDROCOMBUS. H. maculicollis Muls. H. fimbriatus Mels. HYDROBIUS. H. globosus Say. H. subcupreus Say. CERCYON. C. pubescens Lec. C. hemorhoidale Fab. C. pretextatum Say. PHANONOTUM. P. extricatum Say. MEGASTERNUM. M. costatum Lec. CRYPTOPLEURUM. C. vagans Lec. LEPTINIDA. “Mammal Nest Dwellers.” LEPTINUS. L. testaceus Mirell. This curious little flat, pale, eyeless beetle, I have found only in the nests of small mammals, such as field mice, etc. From one nest I took 90 specimens, and many escaped by running away so rapidly I was unable to gather them all. I think they are only guests of the animals, as I have found them in nests that have been long since deserted by the animals. See note, “What I found in nest of field mouse.” This Journal, 1892. Sleep As, “Carrion Beetles.”’ NECROPHORUS. N. americanus Oliv, N. marginatus Fab. 12 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 119 N. sayi Lap. N. tomentosus Web. N. orbicollis Say. These large showy beetles are ill-smelling things, and when pinned, turn dark in drying and lose the bright yellow colors. Their appearance and smell can be much improved in preparing them for the cabinet, by making an opening between the segments and scraping out the soft parts. Then soak them for several days in ether or gasoline, after which fill up with cotton that has been dampened in carbolic acid, alcohol and corrosive sublimate. To secure specimens, place a dead mole, rat or bird in a suitable place, cover up lightly with bark or grass, and visit it daily during June, July, August and September. SILPHA. S. surinamensis Fab. S. noveboracensis Forst. S. ineequalis Fab. S. americana Linn. These frequent the same “banquet hall” as the above and require the same treatment. I have observed S$. swrinamensis feeding on the plump maggots of the “Blue fly.” They were chewing them up at a lively rate. NECROPHILUS. N. pettiti Horn. A rare species I have only found on fungus growing in thick woods. CHOLEVA. C. simplex Say. C. clavicornis Lec. C. basillaris Say. C. terminans Lec. These and the next occur on decaying vegetable and animal matter. I have also taken five specimens in nest of a mouse, ime: £2; PRIONOCH ATA. P. opaca Say. PTOMAPHAGUS., P. consobrinus Lec. P. parasitus Lec. P. pusio Lec. P. parasitus 1 find abundantly in the subterranean nests of a large black ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus). July 21, 1891, I took 35 from a nest in an orchard. This ant makes nests in honeycombed trees and logs, and also in the ground. COLON. C. hubbardi Horn. C. undescribed species. COLENIS. C. impunctata Lec. 13 120 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. LIODES. Le polita Wee. L. obsoleta Horn. L. discolor Melch. L.. basilis Lee. L. blanchardi Horn, IL. dichroa Lec. Liodes are abundant in patches of powdery fungus that grows on logs and dead trees. AGATHIDIUM. A. oniscoides Beauv. A. pulchrum Lec. A. exiguum Melsh. SCYDMAENIDE. Minute hairy brown beetles in which the elytra cover the dorsal segments of abdomen. CHEVROLATIA. C. ameena Lec. More than twenty years ago, I took one specimen of this exceedingly rare species, and have never ceased hunting for others, whenever an opportunity offered, but without success. SCYDMENUS. S. cribrarius Lec. S. clavipes Say. S. flavitarsus Lec. S. salinator Lec. S. capillosulus Lec. S. bicolor Schauff. SJianalis ec . §. brevicornis Say. EUMICRUS. E. motschulskii Lec. E. floridanus Casey. E. grossus Lec. CHOLERUS. C. zimmermani Schaum. CEPHENNIUM. C. corporosum Lec. See Le Conte in Proc. Acad., 1852; also, “Coleopterological Notices: VII.”, Annals N. Y. Acad. Sciences vol. 1x, p. 351, by Maj. Casey. PSELAPEHIDAS. Minute brown beetles with the elytra not covering the dorsal abdominal segments. Segments not freely moveable. ADRANES. A. lecontei Brend. ATINUS. A. monilicornis Brend. 14 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 121 CEOPHYLLUS. C. monilis Lec. CEDIUS. G:pzeigier Lec: C. spinosus Lec. TMESIPHORUS. T. costalis Lec. T. carinatus Lec. CTENISTES. G., piceus Lec. C. consobrinus Lec. C. zimmermani Lec. TYRUS. T. humeralis Aube. TYCHUS. T. minor Lec. MACH AERODES. M. tychoides Brend. VERTICINOTUS. V. cornutus Brend. BATRISUS. B. confinis Lec. B. riparius Say. B. monstrosus Lec. B. globosus Lec. B. ferox Lec. : B. nigricans Lec. B. frontalis Lec. B. spretus Lec. FARONUS. Raucoluiedcec: See note on this species in this Journal, vol. x1x (1898), p. 139. BRYAXIS, B. illinoiensis Brend. B. rubicunda Aube. B. abdominalis Aube. B. congener Brend. B. gracilis Casey. RHEXIUS. R. insculptus Lec. TRIMIUM. T. parvulum Lec. EUPLECTUS. E. linearis Lec. FE. interruptus Lec. E. confluens Lec. Unless the PSELAPHIDZE are collected clean and mounted with great care they are not worth much for study. Collect them 15 122 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. dry, draw out the antennz, then mount on the extreme tip of the finest paper point, with only a speck of good glue. Brendel and Wickham have published a monograph of t the family i in the natural history bulletin of the lowa Acad. Sciences: Vol. 1, p. 216. But the beginner who attempts to name his collection, without named types for comparison, from this or any other available literature, 33 will have “rough sledding.” STAPEY Vi iD AS. “Rove Beetles.” An immense family with diversified forms and colors, that have the elytra.short, abdominal segments in most of the species fieely moveable. FALAGRIA. F. cingulata Lec. F. bilobata Say. HOMALOTA, H. trimaculata Er. H. lividipennis Mann. ALEOCHARA, A. lata Grav. A. brachypterus Fourc. PHILOTERMES. P. pilosus Kr. DINOPSIS. P. americanus Kr. ACYLOPHORUS. A. flavicollis Sack. A. pronus Erw. SOMATIUM. S. claviger Casey. QUEDIUS. QO. fulgidus Fab. ©. capucinus Grav, Q. sublimbatus Wak. Q. levigatus Gyll. O. peregrinus Grav. O. molochinus Grav. LISTOTROPHUS. S. cingulatus Grav. CREOPHILUS. C. villosus Grav. STAPHYLINUS. S. vulpinus Nordm. S. comes Lec. S. maculosus Grav, S. cinnamopterus Grav. S. mysticus Er. S. violaceus Grav. S. femoratus Fab. S. viridans Horn. 16 okt BABAR” bd bad 7 ts Pe NNN sou cheat korg eek Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. OCYPUS. Ot ater Grav. BELONUCHUS. B. formosus Grav. PHILONTHUS. aeneus [osst. P. equalis Horn, lucidus Say. P. brunneus Grav. palliatus Grav. P. cyanipennis Fab. debilis Grav. P. blandis Grav. fusiformis Welsh. P. baltimorensis Grav. fulvipes Fab. P._apicalis Say. lomatus Er. P. confertus Lec. ACTOBIUS. . sobrinus Er. A. terminalis Lec. . pederoides Lec. XANTHOLINUS. . cephalus Say. X. obscurus Er. emmesus Grav. LEPTACINUS. longicollis Lec. L. dimidiatus Say. ruficollis Lec. L. umbripennis Fauv. DIOCHUS. D. schaumu Kr. STENUS. bipunctatus Er. S. humilis Er. egenus Er, Saris, Csy. flavicornis Er, S. argus Grav. annularis Er. EUSTHETUS. E. florid Casey. CRYPTOBIUM. badium Grav. C. pallipes Grav. bicolor Grav. C. latebricola Nordm. texanum Leé. LATHROBIUM. : punctulatum Lec. C. collare Er. armatum Say. C. dimidiatum Say. longiusculum Grav. STILICUS. tristis Melch. S. dentatus Say. angularis Lec. S. biarmatus Lec. 10 124 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. LITHOCHARIS, L. corticina Grav. L. confluens Say. PAEDERUS. P. littorarius Grav. SUNIUS. S. binotatus Say. S. longiusculus Mann. STILICOPSIS. S. monstrosa Lec, PINOPHILUS. P. latipes Grav. PALAMINUS. Pwtestacels yar MICROCYPTUS. M. testaceus Lec. Taken in numbers from nest of small black ant, August, 1888. TACHINUS. T. memnonius Grav. T. schwarzi Horn. T. flavipennis Dej. T. limbatus Melsh. T. luridus2y, T. pallipes Grav. TACHYPORUS. T. maculipennis Lec. a scitolus v7, T. jocosus Say. T. brunneus Fab. T. chrysomelinus Linn. ERCHOMUS. T. levis Lec. CONOSOMA. C. littoreum Linz. C. opicum Say. C. crassum Grav. C. scriptum Horn. Cy basale Er: BOLETOBIUS, B. niger Grav. B. cincticollis Say. B. dimidiatus Er. B. trinotatus Er. B. intrusus Horn. B. cinctus Grav. BRYOPORUS. B. flavipes Lec. MYCETOPORUS. M. americanus Er. MEGALOPS. M. celatus Grav. 18 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 125 O. femoralis Grav. O. major Grav. O. stygicus Say. Megalops I always find on the under side of small fungus grown beech logs, May to October. Oxyporus feed on the tender parts of fungus belon OXYPORUS. O. vittatus Grav, O. lateralis Grav. ging to the Agaricinae from May to Septem- ber. O. stygicus is our most abundant species and quite variable in size. OSORIUS. QO. latipes Grav, BLEDIUS. B. semiferrugineus Lec. B. analis Lec. B. ruficornis Lec. B. emarginatus Say. I find Osorius and Bledins abundant along rivers on the low damp ground. O. sculptus Grav. insignitus Grav, brunneus Say. pallipes Lec. . obtectum Er. PLATYSTETHUS, P. americanus Er, OXYTELUS. O. nitidulus Grav. O. placusinus Lec, TROGOPHL@US, T. memnonius £yr. APOCELLUS. A. spheericollis Say, GEODROMICUS, G. cxsus Fr, LESTEVA, L. subcarinata Ey. TRIGONODEMUS, T. striatus Lec. LATHRIM ZUM, L. sordidum Er, ALOPHRUM. A. rotundicolle Salb. PYCNOGLYPTA, P. lurida Gyil. HOMALIUM. H. humerosum Fauz, 19 126 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. PHOTINUS. P. atomarius Er. MEGARTHRUS. M. excisus Lec. GLYPTOMA, G. costale Er. ELEUSIS. E. pallidus Lec. SIAGONUM. S. americanum Melsh. MICROPEPLUS. M. cribratus Lec. In addition to those enumerated [ have many species impossi- ble to identify at this time, some of which are doubtless new. TRICHOPLTERYGIDZE. “Feather Wings.” Most of these beetles are exceedingly minute, being the smail- est of beetles. It requires a powerful glass to study them. I find only two species, by sifting rubbish. They are: NOSSIDIUM. N. americanum Mots. TRICHOPTERYX. T. haldemani Lec. SCAPHIDIIDZ. Black shining beetles that live on fungus grown logs. SCAPHIDIUM. S. quadrimaculatum Say. S. quadripustulatum Say. S. obliteratum Lec. S. piceum Melsh. S. obliteratum is a form in which the dorsal punctures are nearly obliterated. Dr. Horn considered the last three varieties. of the first. Maj. Casey has a synopsis in Journal, N. Y. Ent. Soc., vol. VIII, June, 1900. CYPARIUM. C. flavipes Lec. BEOCERA. B. concolor Fab. Sifted from field mouse’s nest December, 1891. 20 “I Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnatt. 12 SCAPHISOMA. S. convexum Say. TOXIDIUM. T. compressum Zim. PHALACRIDA-A. OLIBRUS. O. striatulus Lec. O. nitidus Melsh. O. consimilis Marsh. ANCYLOMUS. Axe ergo Csi. CORYLOPHIDA:. Many of this family of small beetles are to be found on the trunks of standing dead trees feeding on a powdery fungus. SACIUM. S. obscurum Lec. S. fasciatum Say. S. amabile Lec. S. lunatum Lec. SERICODERUS. S. obscurus Lec. S. subtilis Lec. COCCINELLIDZ. “Lady Bugs” or “Lady Birds.” This is one of the most important families of beetles. Many of the species in the larval form feed on plant lice and scale insects. Their value in ridding, vegetation of these pests can hardly be estimated. Introduced pests can sometimes be controlled by introducing their “Lady bug” parasite. The family is large and all, with few exceptions, feed on other insects. The rapidity with which Adalia and Brachyacantha will destroy a colony of “plant lice” (aphidac) is surprising. Our species are: MEGILLA. M. maculata D. G. HIPPODAMIA. H. glacialis Fab. H. tredecimpunctata Linn. H. convergens Guer. H. parenthesis Say. COCCINELLA. C. venusta Melsh. C. sanguinea Linn. oa 128 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. C. notulata Muils. - C. bipunctata Linn. - C. noveninotata Hbst. C. pullata Say. I have never observed C. (Neoharmonia) venusta and C. notulata here until 1898, in which year I saw one specimen. Since then they are becoming more abundant. I have specimens that seem to prove notulata a dimorphic form of venusta. ANATIS. A. quindecimpunctata Oliv. PSYLLOBORA. P. vigintimaculata Savy. CHILOCORUS. C. bivulneratus Muls. C. abdominalis Say. CRYPTOGNATHA. Crpnusila Lec. PENTILIA, P.tomisella ec. BRACHYACANTHA. B. ursina Fab. B. quadripunctata Melsh. B. decempustulata Melsh. HYPERASPIS. H. fimbriolata Melsh. H. signata Oliv. H. undulata Say. H. bigeminata Rand. SCYMNUS. S. bioculatus Muls. S. caudalis Lec. S. americanus Mulls. S. tenebrosus Muils. S. hemorrhous Lec. S. punctatus MWelsh. S. collaris Melsh. CEPHALOSCYMNUS. C. zimmermani Cr. EPILACHNA. E. borealis Fab. I have found this last species in clusters under leaves during the winter. With very few exceptions our COCCINELLID are abundant if searched for at the proper time and place. Crotch published a revision of the family, Trans., vol. 1v, 1873, p. 363. Maj. Thos. L. Casey has published a revision and synopsis in Journal, New York Ent. Soc., vol. vu, No. 2, June, 1899. ENDOMYCHIDZ.. SY MBIOTES. S- -ulker Cr: S. minor Cyr. ? nN nN Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 129 RHANIS, R. unicolor Zieg. PHYMAPHORA. P. pulchella Newm. LYCOPERDINA. L. ferruginea Lec. This last species is common if searched for at the proper place, which is inside the little round fungus Lycoperdon piriforme, where it may be found covered with the spores of the fungus. By squeezing the ball the beetle can be felt, 1f within. APHORISTA. A. vittata Fab. MYCETINA, M. perpulchra Newm. STENOTARSUS. S. hispidus Hbst. ENDOMYCHUS. E. bivittatus Gerst. Mycetina and Aphorista | have found very early in Spring clinging to the under side of oak rails that were lying along the edge of a woods. The curious and pretty little Phymaphora is found on old beech logs. Symbiotes occurs on logs where it feeds on the fungus growing there. For synopsis, see Crotch Trans. vol. 1v, 1873, p. 349. EROLY MIDAS LANGURIA. bicolor Fab. L. trifasciata Say. mozardi Lat. L. gracilis Newm. angustata Bean. . trifasciata 1s considered a variety of L. angustata, but I strongly doubt it. eee lee ise PLGOSOMA. P. punctata Lec. DACNE. D. quadrimaculata Say. MEGALODACNE. M. fasciata Fab. M. ulkei Crotch. M. heros Say. 130 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. I have found wlkei only on a fungus (Polyporus cuticularis), growing on beech logs together with its larve. Under favorable conditions they were common during May and June. Thick woods. ISCHYRUS. I. quadripunctatus Oliv. MYCOTRETUS. M. sanguinipennis Say. M. pulchra Say. TRITOMA. T. humeralis Fab. Taimnecra lec. T. biguttatus Say. T. thoracica Say. T. unicolor Say. T. flavicollis Lec. Te testivankec. Have bred T. festiva from fungus found growing on beech stump. The larve were voracious feeders, and consumed the entire inner part, leaving a thin shell, which held the piece together, Crotch has a revision. Trans. 1873, vol. Iv, p. 349. COLYDENDAS. SYNCHITA. L. parvula Guer. L. granulata Say. L. fuliginosa Melsh. CICONES. C. marginalis Melsh. BITOMA. B. quadrigutta Say. B. quadricollis Horn. EUDESMA. FE. undulata Welsh. This species is rare. It was described by Melsheimer from Penn. For years it remained unique, until one day, while taking refuge under a buckeye log that spanned a ravine, to escape a shower, I looked up and saw some curious little elongated beetles running rapidly up and down the log, and running into round holes in a very colydiid fashion. I gathered six specimens, and when I studied them, found I had this rare insect. Mr. Siewers had taken one specimen under bark of sycamore the year before (1879) in same woods. This beautiful woods is now gone. I have not seen the species since. COXELUS. C. guttulatus Lec. 24 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 131 LASCONOTUS. L. pusillus Lec. . AULONIUM. A. parallelopipedum Say. ' A. tuberculatum Lec. COLYDIUM. C. lineola Say. PENTHELISPA. Py reflexa Say. PYCNOMERUS. P. sulcicollis Lec. BOTHRIDERES. B. geminatus Say. EROTYLATHRIS. FE. exaratus Meish. I found this nicely sculptured species but once abundantly. It was hatching from cocoons, that its larvae had constructed under the bark of a dead Elm tree. Many pupa had died in the cocoons evidently from the heat of the sun shinning on the bark. e CERYLON. C. castaneum Say. PHILOTHERMUS. errs ; P. glabriculus Lec. MYCHOCERUS. M. depressus Lec. See Dr. Horn’s paper on Colydiidae, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. tage, Vols VEL p. 555: REY SsODiIp Ay. RHYSSODES. hojexarata ll, CLINIDIUM. _C. sculptile Newm. See synopsis by LeConte Trans., V. 5, 1875, p. 162. There are only four N. A. species in the family. The other two being found in Cal. Ours live under bark of decaying logs, and are abundant. 25 132 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. CUCUJIDZA. SYLVANUS. S. surinamensis Linn. S. planatus Germ. S. bidentatus Fab. S. advena Waltl. NAUSIBIUS. N. dentatus Marsh. CATOGENUS. C. rufus Fab. PEDIACUS. P. depressus Hbst. CUCUJUS. C. clavipes Fab. - INO. Undescribed species. I found one specimen of this last genus by beating the dead limbs of honey locust. Mr. Ulke to whom I gave it, said it was new. I never saw another. LEMOPHLGUS. L. biguttatus Say. L. testaceus Fab. L. fasciatus Melsh. L. convexulus Lec. L. adustus Lec. LATHROPUS. L. vernalis Lec. BRONTES. B. dubiusFab. B. debilis Lec. TELEPHANUS. T. velox Hald. Synopsis..by LeGonte Procm Acad. 18540-V ai... 3. | abe species of this family are very striking examples of forms modi- fied for an existence under the loose close laying bark of trees, enabling them to squeeze into crevices where they find food for their larvee, and the eternally vigilant ant can not penetrate. - CRYPT OPHA GIDAS. LOBERUS. LL. impressus: Lec. > ANTHEROPHAGUS. A. ochraceus Mels. 26 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 133 CROSIMUS. C. hirtus Casey. CRY PTOPHAGUS. C. croceus Zimm, C. nodangulus Zimm. CENOSCELIS. C. subfuscata Casey. C. elongata Csy. C. ferruginea Sahlb. C. obscura Csy. ATOMARIA. A. crypta Casey. A. ephippiata Zimm. A number of unnamed CRYPTOPHAGID-. MYCETOPHAGID. “Fungus eaters.” MYCETOPHAGUS. M. punctatus Say. * M. pluripunctatus Lec. M. flexuosus Say. M. obsoletus Melsh. M. melsheimerii Lec. PISENUS. P. humeralis Kby. LITARGUS. L. 6-punctatus Say. L. didesmus Say. L. balteatus Lec. L. nebulosus Lec. L. tetraspilotus Lec. TYPH A, T. fumata Linn. DIPLOCCELUS. D. brunneus Lec. Synopsis by Casey in Journal N. Y. Ent. Soc., June, 1900. DERMESTIDZ. “Museum and household pests.” DERMESTES. D. lardarius Linn. D. vulpinus Fabr. D. pulcher Lec. D. maculatus Dej. ATTAGENUS. A. piceus Oliv. TROGODERMA. T. ornatum Say. T. tarsale Melsh. 134 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. ANTHRENUS. A. scrophulariz Linn. A. muszorum Linn. A. varius Fab. CRYPTOR HOPALUM. C. balteatum Lec. ORPHILUS. O. glabratus Fab. Anthrenus is a terrible pest, and unless the utmost vigilance is exercised they will get into and ruin an insect collection in a short time. The strong fumes of napthaline or crude carbolic acid will disguise the odor of dried insects and repell the pests from the boxes. Strong carbon bi-sulphide fumes will kill An- threnus after they get in. Maj. Casey has a synopsis in Journal N.Y: Ent2Soc,, June, 1900: HISTERIDZ:: Our species are nearly all black shining beetles that live ia excrement and decaying material. Some few species live under bark and are modified for such an existence being flattened and with short legs. HOLOLEPTA. Hy tucida Lec. H. fossularis Say. HISTER. H. harrisii Kby. H. americanus Payk. H. immunis Cr. H. subrotundus Say. H. marginicollis Lec. H. vernus Say. H. foedatus Lec. H. carolinus Payk. H. abbreviatus Fab. H. lecontei Mars. H. furtivus Lec. H. aurelianus Horn. H. incertus Jars. H. coarctatus Lec. Ho servus 2%, H. basalis Lec. H. sedecimstriatus Say. H. gracilis Lec. TRIBALUS. T. americanus Lec. EPIERUS. E. regularis Beauv. E. pulicarius Er. HETARIUS, H. brunneipennis Rand. I have taken this species by digging into the nests of mound building ants (Formica exsectoides). 28 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 135 DENDROPHILUS. D. punctulatus Say. PAROMALUS. P. zqualis Say. P. bistriatus Er, P. estriatus Lec. P. seminulum Er. SAPRINUS. S. assimilis Payk. S. fitchi Mars. S. fraternus Say. S. patruelis Lec. TERETRIUS. T. americanus Lec. BACANIUS. B. punctiformis Lec. ACRITUS. A. exiguus Er, AULETES. A. undescribed species. NITIDULIDZE. “Sappreeders: ’. Members of this family can be found in quantities, whereever sap exudes from trees, early in the spring. This is particularly the case with maple trees. I have trapped hundreds by laying chips on top of a freshly cut maple stump, where the sap was exuding. Under these chips were congregated 20 species and hundreds of individuals. A mixture of vinegar or sour beer, and brown sugar or molasses, will also attract them, if spread on a log in the woods, and covered with chips. CERCUS. C. abdominalis Er. CARPOPHILUS. C. hemipterus Linn. — C. corticinus Er. mises: Saga, C. antiquus Melsh. C. marginatus Say. COLASTUS. C. morio Er. C. semitectus Say. C. maculatus Er. C. truncatus Rand. CONOTELUS. C. obscurus Fr. 29 136 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. EPUREA, EB hormin C7, E. avara Rand. E. helvola Er. FE. fulvescens Horn. E. rufa Say. E. planulata Er. E. erichsonii /veit. E. ovata Horn. E. corticina Er. E. labilis Er. E. rufida Welsh. . and some unidentified species. NITIDULA. N. bipustulata Linn. N. zic zac Say. ‘ STELIDOTA, S. gemminata Say. S. strigosa Gyll. S. octomaculata Say. PROMETOPIA. P. sexmaculata Say. PHENOLIA. P:'gtossa Fab. OMOSITA. O. colon Linn. SORONIA. S. undulata Say. POCADLUS. P. helvolus Er. MELIGETHES. M. mutatus Harr. OXYCNEMIS. O. nigripennis Lec. ©. histrina Lec. The last two species very much resemble Histers and are found in the curious fungus called the “stink horn.” AMPHICROSSUS. A. ciliatus Oliv. PALLODES. Pe rsilacetts in CYBOCEPHALUS. C. nigritulus Lec. These minute little beetles are found on fungus grown logs They are sometimes in clusters composed of hundreds of individ- uals. 30 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 137 CRYPTARCHA. C. ampla Er. C. concinna Aelsh., IPS. I. fasciatus Oliv. I. confluentus Say. I. sanguinolentus Oliv. RHIZOPHAGUS. R. bipunctatus Say. Dr. Horn’s paper on this family, Trans., 1879, V. 7, p. 257, is the best synopsis of the North American Nitidulidae. ACEI RED LD As. A family of minute beetles that live under the bark of trees, in decaying leaves, etc. I collect them by sifting such debris. LATHRIDIUS. L. liratus Lec. ENICMUS. E. maculatus Lec. E. aterrimus Mots. CARTODERE. C. filiformis Lec. CORTICARIA. Cesetcata Fayre: C. brevicornis Fall. MELANOPHTHALMA. M. picta Lec. M. distinguenda Com. M. cavicollis Mann. M. americana Mann. When more careful search for them is made, other species will doubtless be found here. In a deserted nest of our common “wild rabbit” (Lepus sylvaticus), 1 found 31 Corticaria serrata, together with what I suppose was their larve. They were feed- ing on the epithelial scales and other debris of the rabbit. With them were two other species. See Revision of Family, by H. C. Fall, “Trans,” XXVI, 1899, pp. 101-190. LROGO SEDI AL. Mostly elongate cylindrical or elongate flat species that live under the bark of dead trees. NEMOSOMA. N. cylindricum Lec. ALINDRIA. A. cylindricaServ. 31 138 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. TROGOSITA. T. virescens Fab. This species has been introduced with logs brought to the saw mills I think. TENEBRIOIDES. T. mauritanica Linn. T. castanea JAZelsh. T. dubia Melsh. T. bimaculata Melsh. T. marginata Beauv. GRYNOCHARIS. G. 4-lineata Mels. This is a very rare species. I have only taken three. MONOTOMA. M. producta Lec. M. fulvipes dZels. M. picipes Hbst. HESPEROBENUS, H. rufipes Lec. EUROPS. FE. pallipennis Lec. BACTRIDIUM. B. ephippigerum Guer. B. striolatum Leeit. DERODONTID-. Our only species of the family is very abundant in fungi. DERODONTUS. D. maculatus Wels. BY RRELIDAE “Pill Beetles.” Some of the genus Byrrhus, when they have their pubescence perfect, are a pill the Coleopterist likes to take into his bottle. Only two species occur here, they are NOSODENDRON. N. unicolor Say. LIMNICHUS. LOsp. GEORYSSID/. Small round coarsely punctured black beetles that live on the 32 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 139 muddy shores of streams. They cover themselves with mud, so they are very difficult to see, consequently but few of our col- lectors get them. Our only species is GEORYSSUS. G. pusillus Lec. PARNID. This is an aquatic family, that live submerged in running water, clinging to flat stones or logs. Their larvee are flat, thin creatures that do not look like the larve of an insect. I have found the seven species that we take here, together with the larve of some of them, adhering to submerged logs and stones in the swift run- ning water of Mill Creek and the Little Miami river. By taking an old limb or rough stone from the water at a suitable locality and placing it in the sun, the insects will move as the water dries off, although at first nothing can be seen of them, so perfectly do they resemble the surface on which they rest. In Trans., V. 3, 1870, p. 29. Dr. Horn has a synoptic paper on them. BEE ROCERIDAS. A family of rather elongate, convex, pubescent, mud colored beetles, that burrow in the mud. The foretibiz are broad and flat- tened, enabling the insect to dig out of sight with great celerity. When the mud flat in which they are concealed is shaken or water poured over it, they rush out of their burrows and take flight. Dr. Horn has an admirable paper on the N. A. species in Trans., Wome VAT Sp: °k, HETEROCERUS. H. ventralis Mels. H. collaris Kies. H. undatus Wels. H. pusillus Say. H. brunneus JZels. DASCYEEMD A. A family of rather soft texture and small size, variable in color. Some are found on dead timber. One species of Ectopria, I have found clinging to a stone submerged in a swift running creek, June 20. | PTILODACTYLA. P. angustata Horn. EUCINETUS. E. oviformis Lec. FE. terminalis Lec. E. morioLec. 140 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. ECTOPRIA, E. nervosa Melsh. PRIONOCYPHON. P. discoideus Say. HELODES. H. pulchella Guer. ; H. thoracica Guer. H. fuscipennis Guer. SCIRTES. S. tibialis Guer. S. orbiculatus Fab. ' CYPHON. C. ruficollis Say. C. variabilis Thunb. C. obscurus Guer. See Horn’s paper, Trans., 1880, V. 8, p. 76. RHIPICERID/E. ZENOA. Z. picea Beauv. SANDALUS. S. niger Knoch. S. petrophya Knoch. For note on life history of Sandalus niger, see paper I published in this journal, Vol. XIX, No. 5, p. 172. I do not know of any complete paper up to date, on the N. A. members of this family. Dr. Horn has a synopsis of Sandalus, Trans. 1881, Vol. 9, p..86. ELATERIDAZ. This great family is richly represented here. The N. A. species are much in need of a revision to include the new species discoy- ered since Le Conte’s paper, Trans. Amer. Philosophical Soc., 1853. N. Series, vol. x, pp. 405-508. The Eucneminac, Cerophy- tinae and Perothopinae have been done in an admirable manner by Dr. Horn. Trans., January, 1886, pp. 5-58. The Elaters are popularly known as “Spring beetles,” “Click beetles” and “Snapping bugs.” Their larvae live mostly in decay- ing wood and in the ground, on plant roots, and are called “wire worms.” The adult beetles are found in a great variety of places, on the trunks and foliage of trees, under bark, and early in the Spring, under stones, on the ground, etc. Our species are: MELASIS, M. pectinicornis Welsh. From a beech log about four feet long I took 50 specimens, that were emerging from round holes they had made. May 27, 1892. 34 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 141 THAROPS, T. ruficornis Say. STETHON. S. pectorosus Lec. A rare species I found here years ago, feeding on fungus that was growing on the underside of a poplar log. Miss Braun found it under bark, Igol. EUCNEMIS. E. americana Horn. Have only seen three specimens, all taken on dead beech. DELTOMETOPUS. D. ameenicornis Say. D. rufipes Mels. DROMZOLUS. D. cylindricollis Say. D. harringtoni Horn. FORNAX. EF. badius Melsh. I. molestus Bonv. F. calceatus Say. IF. orchesides Newm. F, hornu Bonv. ENTOMOPHTHALMUS. E. rufiolus Lec. MICRORHAGUS. M. pectinatus Lec. M. bonvouloiri Horn. M. audax Horn. M. humeralis Say. M. subsinuatus Lec. M. triangularis Say. M. impressicollis Bonv. All found running about dead timber in the sunshine, or resting in the crevices later in the day. HY POCCELUS. H. frontosus Say. H. terminalis Lec. NEMATODES. N. atropos Say. N. penetrans Lec. The members of the Excnemine above, have not the power so developed, as have the more typical Elaters, of “snapping,” “clicking” or springing up in the air, when laid on their backs. ADELOCERA. A. impressicollis Say. A. aurorata Lec. A. marmorata Fab. A. maculata Lec. A. discoidea Web. A. avita Say. 35 142 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. CHALCOLEPIDIUS. C. viridipilis Say. ALAUS. A. oculatus Linn. HEMIRHIPUS. H. fascicularis Fab. This large handsome species was taken July 14 at Redbank, CARDIOPHORUS. C. convexus Say. See paper by F. Blanchard. Trans., January, 1880. HORISTONOTUS. H. curiatus Say. CRYPTOHYPNUS. C. pulchellus Linn. C. perplexus Horn. C. pectoralis Horn. C. xstivus Horn. C. obliquatulus IJels. C., undescribed species, allied to C. striatulis. CEDOSTETHUS. O. femoralis Lec. ANCHASTUS. A. binus Say. MONOCREPIDIUS. M. lividus De). M. auritus Hbst. M. suturalis Lec. M. bellus Say. M. vespertinus Fab. ISCHIODONTUS. I. soleatus Say. ELATER. hepaticus Melsh. EB, lesus. Lee: pedalis Cand. | E. impolitus, Welsh. nigricollis Hbst. E. rubricollis Hbst. linteus Say. E. obliquus Say. discoideus Fab. DRASTERLUS. D. elegans Fab. MEGAPENTHES. M. limbalis Wbst. LUDIUS. L. attenuatus Say. L. abruptus Say. 36 > > ela ge a >>> Yn CG: ©) Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 143 ORTHOSTETHUS. O. infuscatus Germ. AGRIOTES. . mancus Say. A. pubescens Melsh. . oblongicollis Melsh. GLYPHONYX. . Tecticollis Say. G. testaceus Melsh. MELANOTUS. . corticinus Say. M. paganus Chd. acer wee. M. pertinax Say. . decumanus Er, M. americanus Hbst. . fissilis Say. M. insipiens Say. . communis Gyll. M. gradatus Lec. . exuberans Lec. M. morosus Cand. . parumpunctatus Melsh. M. sagittarius Lec. . verberans Lec. LIMONIUS. . auripilis Say. L. quercinus Say. aurifer Lec. L. maculicollis Mots. griseus Beauv. L. agonus Say. . interstitialis Melsh. L. ornatipennis Lec. . confusus Lec. CAMPYLUS. C. denticornis Kby. ATHOUS. . brightwelli Kby. A. posticus Melsh. . acanthus Say. A. rufifrons Rand. . scapularis Say. LEPTOSCHEMA, L. bicolor Lec. BLADUS. B. quadricallis Rand. NOTHODES. N. dubitans Lec. SERICOSOMUS. . silaceus Say. S. flavipennis Mots. CORYMBITES. . vernalis Hentz. C. ethiops Hbst. . cylindriformis Hbst. C. hamatus Say. . divaricatus Lec. C. splendens Ziegl. ° . pyrrhos Hbst. C. inflatus Say. Si ¢ 144 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. C. bivittatus Melsh. C. planatus Lec. C. tarsalis Melsh. C. crassus Lec. C. copei Horn. C. rotundicollis Say. C. sulcicollis Say. Some of these are very rare, as C. cope. I have only seen two specimens. C. vernalis lives in the clay clinging to the roots of trees that have been uprooted by storms. It appears in March and April. March 23, 1902, I took what I think was its larve, by digging in the clay-covered roots of an upturned beech tree. Mrs. Braun found C. hamatus on the foliage of honey locust June 1, 1902. ASAPHES. A. indistinctus Lec. A. memnonius Hbst. A. decoloratus Say. A. bilobatus Say. A. planatus Lec. MELANACTES. M. piceus De G. M. puncticollis Lec. PEROTHOPS. P. mucida Gyll. CEROPHYTUM. C. pulsator Hald. This last is one of the rarest known Elaters, as well as the most abberrant. Its pectinate antennz are very curious. But one speci- men has been taken here, and that was beaten from foliage, into an umbrella. I have in addition to the above many Elaters without names, some of them very fine ones. EROS CIbAE. DRAPETES. D. geminatus Say. D. quadripustulatus Bonw. THROSCUS. T. punctatus Bonv. T. chevrolati Bonv. T. constrictor Say. The monograph of the THROSCID by Bonvouloir, 18509, is inaccessible to most students. See Horn’s synopsis of N. A species. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., 1885, vol. x11, pp. 198-208. BURRS iD “Metallic Shiners.” This family is not very abundant here. They are most beautiful metallic insects. Some of the tropical species are really magnifi- 38 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 145 cent. Many of the species are very destructive to trees, etc. Chrysobothris has killed some of our pine trees outright, and did considerable damage to fruit trees. I collect them on the trunks of dead trees and beat them from foliage into an umbrella. Buprestis rufipes is our most beautiful species, I have found its larve boring in beech and maple. During June specimens may be found sunning themselves on the trunks of dead beech and other trees. Approach them stealthily or they will drop into the weeds and be lost. From a single dead beech in Avondale over a hundred rufipes emerged or perished in the attempt. June to September. CHALCOPHORA. C. campestris Say. Abundant; cuts its way out of beech and maple in April, May and June. DICERCA. D. divaricata’ Say. D. obscura Fab. PCCILONOTA. P. cyanipes Say. BUPRESTIS. B. rufipes Oliv. B. striata Fab. B. fasciata Fab. The last two have been taken about lumber yards where pine timber was being sawed and were perhaps introduced into the locality. CINYRA. C. gracilipes Melsh. MELANOPHILA. M. longipes Say. ANTHAXIA. A. viridifrons Say. A. cyanella Gory. A. viridicornis Say. A. quercata Fab. CHRYSOBOTHRIS. C. femorata Oliv. C. sexsignata Say. C. floricola Gory. Cr azutea ac. C. pusilla Lap. C. scitula Gory. ACTENODES, A. acornis Say. A large unidentified species, that is perhaps new. 39 146 Cincinnati. Society of Natural History. ACM ZODERA, A. ornata Fab. A. culta Web. A. pulchella Hbst. PTOSIMA. P. gibbicollis Say. AGRILUS. A. difficilis-Gory. A. politus Say. A. ruficollis Fab. A. fallax Say. A. otiosus Say. A. obsoletoguttatus Gory. A. crinicornis Horn. A. subcinctus Gory. A. arcuatus Say. A. lecontei Saund. A. bilineatus Web. A. addendus Cr. A. granulatus Say. A. egenus Gory. A. acutipennis Mann. A. pusillusSay. TAPHROCERUS. T. gracilis Say. BRACHYS. B. ovata Web. B. eruginosa Gory. B. erosa Melsh. PACHYSCELUS. P. purpureus Say. P. levigatus Say. I have taken Agrilus bilineatus boring out of a solid beech tree. A. ruficollis bores in the stems of blackberry and raspberry. A. lecontei I find abundantly on honey locust. The others can be beaten from foliage into an umbrella. Pachyscelus purpureus I have taken eating holes in the leaves of wild geranium (Ge- ranium maculatum. ) LAMPYRID-. “Fire Flies.” Soft bodied insects, many of which do not resemble beetles very closely. They rest during the day, but in the evening become active and fly about. The luminous species giving off their bril- liant light. The life history of even many of the common species is unknown. Dr. Le Conte published a synopsis of N. A. species in Trans., 1881, vol. Ix, pp. 15-72. Since then, Dr. Horn has published a paper on Zaripus. Trans., 1885, vol. x11, p. 148. Our species are: LYCOSTOMUS. L. lateralis Melsh. CALOPTERON. C. terminale Say. C. reticulatum Fab. 40 bE ba bs BoE Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 147 LOPHEROS. L. fraternus Rand. EROS. thoracicus [eand. E. sculptilis Say. mundus Say. Kk. humeralis Fab. aurora Hbst. aurora is a beautiful red species quite rare here. PLATEROS. modestus Say. P. floralis Melsh. canaliculatus Say. CALOCHROMUS. C. perfacetus Say. POLYCLASIS. P. bifaria Say. Superficially this species resembles the next, but it is quite different. I find them resting on trunks of trees in shady woods. ~ UU ge LUCIDOTA. LL... .atra: Fab. ELLYCHNIA. E. corrusca Linn. PYROPYGA. nigricans Say. P. decipiens Harr. PYRACTOMENA. angulata Say. P. marginellus Lec. lucifera Melsh. P. scintillans Say. pyralis Linn. PHOTURIS. pennsylvanica De G. P. frontalis Lec. PHENGODES. P. plumosa Oliv. Very rare, only one male taken. poy OMETHES. O. marginatus Lec. CHAULIOGNATHUS. pennsylvanica De G. C. marginata Fab. PODABRUS. tricostatus Say. P. tomentosus Say. rugosulus Lec. P. protensus Lec. basilaris Say. 41 148 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. SILIS. S. percomis Say. TELEPHORUS. . rectus Melsh. flavipes Lec. scitulus Say. pusillus Lec. bilineatus Say. dentiger Lec. excavatus Lec. fraxini Say. carolinus Fab. lineola Fab. Fe ie eae DITEMNUS. D. bidentatus Say. TRYPHERUS. T. latipennis Germ. MALTHINUS. M. flavicollis Lec. MALTHODES. M. exilis Wels. These insects make very unsatisfactory looking specimens at best. Some methods of preparation are much better than others. Collect them dry, pin with good black pins, hold the head thorax and elytra in position until dry, and dry quickly. All of the smaller species should be mounted on paper triangles. A little alcoholic sol. of carbolic acid or corrosive sublimate injected into the soft abdominal parts is good. MALACHIID. Small, rather soft bodied beetles that occur on vegetation. But little is known of their life history. Synopsis by Horn. Trans., 1872) vol: iL, p. 70: COLLOPS. C. quadrimaculatus Fab. ANTHOCOMUS. A. erichsoni Lec. PSEUDEB-EUS. PP) bicolor Tec. ATTALUS. A. morulus Lec. A. scincetus Say. A. humeralis Lec. MELYRIS. M. cribratus Lec. 42 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 149 CLERIDZ:. The clerids are an enterprising and interesting family. I find most of the species about dead timber. A few occur on foliage. Synopsis by Le Conte. Ann. Lyc., 1849, vol. v, p. 9. ELASMOCERUS. FE. terminatus Say. TILLUS: T. collaris Spin. Only one of this species has been taken here. CYMATODERA. C. brunnea Melsh. C. undulata Say. C. bicolor Say. PRIOCERA. P. castanea Newnn. A rare species, taken under bark. TRICHODES. T. quadrimaculatus Say. T. ichneumoneus Fab. T. analis Lec. T. thoracicus Oliv. T. rosmarus Say. THANEROCLERUS. T. sanguineus Say. HYDNOCERA, unifasciata Say. H. pedalis Lec. subenea Spin. H. verticalis Say. humeralis Say. H. tabida Lec. pallipennis Say. H. longicollis Ziegl. a Foo or PHYLLOBENUS. P. dislocatus Say. ICHNEA. I. laticornis Say. CHARIESSA, C. pilosa Forst. CREGYA. C. oculata Say. Cramixta Lee: I have beaten a number of Cregya from osage orange hedges. ORTHOPLEURA, ©. damicornis Fab. 43 150 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. NECROBIA. N. rufipes Fab. N. violaceus Linn. N. ruficollis Fab. I have taken Necrobia on an old decaying animal skin. PTIN TIDAL: PTINUS. P. fur Linn. P. quadrimaculatus Melsh. P. brunneus Duft. EUCRADA. E. humeralis Melsh. Abundant on trunks of dead beech. ERNOBIUS. E. mollis Linn. OLIGOMERUS. O. sericans Melsh. O. alternans Lec. SITODREPA. S. panicea Linn. Found abundantly in drugs, etc. HADROBREGMUS. H. carinatus Say. H. linearis Lec. TRICHODESMA. T. gibbosum Say. ANOBIUM, A. notatum Say. TRYPOPITYS. T. sericeus. Say. PETALIUM. P. bistriatum Say. EUPACTUS. FE. nitidus Lec. XYLETINUS. X. peltatus Harr. X. fucatus Lec. HEMIPTYCHUS. H. punctatus Lec. H. ventralis Lec. H. gravis Lec. H. castaneus Ham. H. borealis Lec. 44 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 151 DORCATOMA. D. setuiosum Lec. CAENOCARA, CG. oculatay Say: PTILINUS. P. ruficornis Say. P. thoracicus Rand. EUCERATOCERUS. E. hornii Lec. ENDECATOMUS. FE. reticulatus Hbst. E. rugosus Rand. SINOXYLON. S. basilare Say. S. bidentatum Horn. S. sextuberculatum Lec. BOSTRYCHUS. B. bicornis Web. B. truncaticollis Lec. DINODERUS. D. punctatus Say. PYCTUS. L. striatus Jfelsh. L. opaculus Lec. TROGOXYLON, T. parallelopipedum Walsh. I do not know of any complete paper on the PTINIDA. Le Conte and Horn have papers on several sub-families and genera in Proc. Acad., 1865, and Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., 1878. CUBE SIDA: CUPES. C. concolor West. LYMEXYLID/A. HYLECCETUS. H. lugubris Say. Very rare here, one only. GIOIDAL. (CiSis C. creberrimus Mellie. C. fuscipes Mellie. Many unnamed species. 45 152 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. ENNEARTHRON. E.. thoracicornis Zieg. E. vitulus Mann. CERACIS. C. sallei Mellie. RHIPIDANDRUS. R. paradoxus Beauv. The minute cioids I have found abundantly on fungus. SPHINDIDZAS. SPHINDUS. S. denticollis Lec. This species occurs on fungus. LUCANIDZ. “The Stag Beetles. * The larve of our species live in decaying wood. Chas. Fuchs in Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 1882, vol. v, p. 49, has a good synopsis of the family. : LUCANUS. L. elaphus Fab. L. placidus Say. I.. dama Fab. DORCUS. D. parallelus Say. PLATYCERUS. P. quercus Webr. PASSALUS, P. cornutus Fab. L. elaphius is rare here, the others common. While in the British Museum some years ago, a specialist, who was working on the LUCANID/, expressed a wish for some fresh Passalus, for dis- section. On my return to Ohio, I sent some in a small box by mail. About a month after my box, like the proverbial cat in the song, “came back,’ and stamped on it in red letters, were these words: “Suspected to be potato beetles, not allowed entry.” The speci- mens had been examined very carefully, and after due deliberation, they decided that a dead Passalus cornutus was a living “potato beetle”! 46 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 153 SCARABAID. © An extensive family of large insects. Some of the tropical forms are giants of the beetle tribe. MDyzastes, sometimes called the ‘‘Rhinoceros beetle,’’ is our largest coleopteron. Its larva is a huge grub of a dirty yellowish color, and feeds on decaying wood. One of the peculiarities of this species is the very power- ful and strange odor given off by the adult beetle. Ina Bulletin of U.S. Dept. of Agriculture; New Series No. 36, page 28, isa paper on the species, with most superb figures of the larva and pupa, naturalsize. Incollecting the coprophagous Scarabeide by throwing the dung, in which many species live, into a bucket of water they will come out and can thus be cleaned, before being put into the bottle. CANTHON. C. depressipennis Lec. C. chalcites Hadd. C. vigilans Lec. C. viridis Beauv. C. levis Drury. Some of these are skillful ball rollers. Specimens of C. viridis from Texas are bright green, ours are always rich bronze. They live in fungus. The species is rare here. CHGERIDIUM. C. histeroides Wedér. COPRIS. C. minutus Drury. C. carolina L727. C. anaglypticus Say. PHAN HUS. P. carnifex £77272. ONTHOPHAGUS. O. hecate Panz. O. striatulus Beauv. O. janus Panz. O. subzeneus Beauv. O. orpheus Pazz. O. pennsylvanicus /aro/d. ZEGIALIA. A. conferta Horn. ATAENIUS. A. gracilis Welsh. A. abditus Hadd. A. stercorator Fad. AY PUugiceps asp: 47 154 Cincinnati Soctety of Natural History. A species of Atenius which I have taken here I think new and propose for it the name A. rugiceps, and describe it as follows : Color, brown. ‘The thorax darker and more shining than ely- tra. Entire front of head rugose; posterior part with a shallow punctured transverse groove. Clypeus emarginate in front. Thorax with sparse, scattered, very coarse punctures and a shal- Atenius rugiceps, Ns Sp. low coarsely punctured groove, extending from base to middle. Front and hind thoracic angles prominent, sides arcuate and with a narrow margin extending across base and along sides to front angles. Elytra slightly narrower than thorax, sides straight, tips conjointly rounded. Striz deep, impunctured, with sides of strie feebly crenate. Abdomen with very minute punctures. Segments very prominent and rounded, sutures between them crenate. Mesosternum carinate between coxe. Length 3-5 mm. One specimen. Cincinnati, O. PLEUROPHORUS. Pleurophorus ventralis Horn. I took specimens of this species here in 1880, and sent them to Dr. Horn, who named it “Atentus, n. sp.’ In Monograph of the Aphodiini, Trans. 1887, page 92, he describes it under the above name. I have what I think to be male and female of this remarkable species. 48 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 155 DIAL YES: D. striatulus Say. APHODIUS. A. fimetarius Linn. A. stercorosus Melsh. A. crassulus Horn. A. lentus Horn. A. ruricola Melsh. A. terminalis Say. A. granarius Linn. A. bicolor Say. A. serval Say. A. femoralis Say. A. inquinatus [Hbst. A. oblongus Say. A. rubeolus Beauv. BOLBOCERUS. B. tumefactus Beauv. B. lazarus Fabr. ODONTEUS. O. filicornis Say. O. cornigerus JZels. GEOTRUPES, G. splendidus Fabr. G. blackburnii Fabr. G. semiopacus Jeckel. G: is var. jecklit Horn. Splendidus I have only taken in fungus, the others in excrement. CLOOTUS. C. aphodiodes /7/1. C. globosus Say. NICAGUS. N. obscurus Lec, PROX T. scutellaris Say. T. capillaris Say. T. monachus Hbst. T. unistriatus Beauv. ad wasperdec: T. foveicollis Harold. T. suberosus Fabr. Leterrestris Say, T. punctatus Germ. T. equalis Say. T. tuberculatus De G. T. scaber Linn. Trox are abundant on dead animal remains. I have taken capillaris, unistriatus and fovetcollis on an old hide of Virginia deer. HOPLIA. H. debilis Lec. H. modesta Hald. DICHELONYCHA. D. bivittata Lec. D. fuscula Lee. D. testacea Kby. SERICA. vespertina Gyll. Seasericea 111: nin iricolor Say. 49 156 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. MACRODACTYLUS. M. subspinosus fab. M. angustatus Beauv. DIPLOTAXIS. D. harperi Blanch. D. frondicola Say. LACHNOSTERNA. L. ephelida Say. L. villifrons Lec. IL, gibbosa Burm. L. ilicis Knoch. L. fusca Froh. L. crenulata Froh. L. “ var.arcuata Smuth. L. quercus Knoch. L. “ var. brevicollis Burm. L. inversa Horn. L. fraterna J7arr: ieetristiss ou. L. rugosa Mels. L. hornii Smith. L. hirticula Anoch. L. albina Burm. L. comans Burm. ANOMALA. A. binotata Gyll. A. lucicola Fabr. ‘A. minuta Bari. A. marginata Fab. A. undulata Mfelsh. STRIGODERMA. S. arboricola Fab. PELIDNOTA. P. punctata Linn. COTALPA. C. lanigera Linn. CYCLOCEPHALA. C. villosa Burm. CHALEPUS. C. trachypygus Buri. LIGYRUS. L. ruginasus Lec. Le pyritormis Lec. L. relictus Say. L. tridentatus Say. XYLORYCTES. X. satyrus Fab. DYNASTES. D. tityus Linn. PHILEURUS. P. valgus Fabr. ; ALLORHINA. A. nitida Linn. 50 NT Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 15 EUPHORIA. E. sepulchralis Fab. KE. inda Linn. E. fulgida Fab. CREMASTOCHILUS. C. knochii Lec. C. variolosus Kby. OSMODERMA. ©. eremicola Knoch. O. scabra Beauv. GNORIMUS. G. maculosus Anoch. TRICHIUS. T. piger Fab. T}bibens Fab: T. affinis Gory. VALGUS. V. canaliculatus Fab. V. squamiger Beauv. There is no complete monograph of the family SCARAB/AEID AE. Horn and Le Conte have excellent papers on many of the genera. These papers, which number 38 or more, have been pub- lished in Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. from 1847 to 1880, but most of them from 1870 to 1880. In 1887 Dr. Horn revised Lachno- sterna Trans. XIV, p. 209-296. Mr. F. Blanchard has a synopsis of Canthon in Trans. 1885, v. XII, p. 63. Mr. Blanchard also has a synopsis of Geotrupes in Psyche, 1888, v. V, p. 103. The latest paper on any N. A. Scarabeid genus is one by Mr. H. C. fall on Dichelonycha, Trans. Aug., 1901, vol. XX VII, p. 277, and brings the subject down to date. The species of some of the genera are quite troublesome to separate. This is noticeably the case with Lachnosterna, Diplotaxis, etc. Scarabeide are, many of them abundant, some of ‘the species alarmingly so. The larve of Lachnosterna, do great damage. The adults fly in swarms around electric lights. L. hornu is rare. I have taken it at light. JL. albina is another rare species that I have found only by beating a certain haw tree (May 24) that stood in a thick woods. And though there were many other similar trees around, none of them produced any albina. JL. fusca is our most abundant species. It is the larvee of Lachnosterna that does such damage to grass lands, and lawns, by eating the roots of the grass. Large patches are killed in this way and the grass can be rolled up like a carpet, leaving the ground stripped bare. They are very dif- ficult to combat as the larvee are out of sight in the ground and can not easily be reached. The larve or “grub” of Lachnosteria are characteristic scarabeean larvee and are figured in many works, such as Lugger’s 5th report Entomologist of Minn., Packard Bi 158 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. Guide to the Study of Insects, etc. The largest: beetle occurring here belongs to this family. It is called Dynastes tityus. A fine male was taken on Eastern avenue, this city, July I, 1900. SPONDYIIDYE: PARANDRA. P. brunnea Fab. P. polita Say. P. brunnea is common, occurring late in summer and in fall, polita is very rare. I chopped three out of the heart of a large dead beech tree, 1878, August. CERAMBYCID. The “‘long-horned beetles.” A family that is numerously represented by many fine species. Some of them are very destructive to trees. The species I have seen from here are ORTHOSOMA. QO. brunneum Forst. PRIONUS. P. laticollis Drury. SPHENOSTETHUS. S. taslei Bates. ASEMUM. A. meestum Hald. SMODICUM. S. cucujiforme Say. PHYSOCNEMUM. P. brevilineum Say. RHOPALOPUS. R. sanguinicollis Horn. HYLOTRUPES. H. ligneus Fab. PHY MATODES. P. variabilis Fab. P. varius fab. P. amcenus Say. CALLIDIUM. . C. antennatum Newm. . C. ianthinum Lec. Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 159 DRYOBIUS. D. sexfasciatus Say. This is one of our most beautiful and graceful species. In former years it was abundant, but is now rare. Its larvze bore in beech and maple. I have trapped them by nailing slabs of loose bark on the dead tree trunks, and visiting them every few days. Holding an inverted umbrella under the slab, to catch the beetles, when the bark was disturbed as they would drop to the ground. June and July. CHION. C. cinctus Drury. C.cinctus var. garganicus Fwd. EBURIA. E. quadrigeminata Say. ROMALEUM. R. atomarium Drury. ELAPHIDION. E. irroratum Fab. E. villosum Fab. E. mucronatum Fab. E. parallelum Newm. E. incertum Hald. FE. unicolor Rand. TYLONOTUS. T. bimaculatus Hald. HETERACHTHES. H. quadrimaculatus Nezwn. PHYTON. P. pallidum Say. Beaten from dead osage orange. June. ' OBRIUM. O. rubrum Nez. O. rubidum Lec. Of the latter only one specimen. MOLORCHUS. M. bimaculatus Say. CALLIMOXYS. C. sanguinicollis Oliv, RHOPALOPHORA, R. rugicollis Lec. PURPURICENUS. P. humeralis Fab. P. var. axillaris Hald. 53 160 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. BATYLE. B. suturalis Say. STENOSPHENUS. S. notatus Oliv. CYLLENE. C. picta Drury. C. robinize Forst. Look for C. picta on honey locust in June and July, and C. robimiae on golden rod in September. PLAGIONOTUS. P. speciosus Say. ARHOPALUS, A. fulminans Fabr. XYLOTRECHUS. colonus Fab. i, oS convervens, ec: . nitidus Horn. X. nitidus is very rare here, three only. NEOCLYTUS. N. scutellaris Oliv. N. erythrocephalus Fab. On a diseased tulip tree near my house N. erythrocephalus was ovipositing, Aug. 8, 1892. CLYTANTHUS. C. ruricola Oliv. C. albofasciatus Lap. I beat the latter sp. from wild grape. CYRTOPHORUS. C. verrucosus Oliv. EUDERCES. E. picipes Lab. DISTENIA. D. undata Oliv. DESMOCERUS. D. palliatus Forst. This species appears here on alder when it is in blossom. NECYDALIS. N. melitus Say. A curious species with short wing cases. June. ENCYCLOPS. E. ceruleus Say. 54 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 161 CENTRODERA. C. sublineata Lec. A very rare species. I have only taken one. TOXOTUS. T. schaumii Lec. T. cinnamopterus Rand. T. cylindricollis Say. ACM AOPS. A. bivittata Say. GAUROTES. G. cyanipennis Say. BELLAMIRA. B. scalaris Say. Have taken a var. of this species jet black. STRANGALIA. S. famelica Newm. S. luteicornis Fab. S. acuminata Oliv. S. bicolor Swed. TYPOCERUS. T. velutinus Oliv. T. lugubris Say. LEPTURA. L. emarginata Fab. L. proxima Say. L. lineola Say. L. vittata Germ. L. chalybea Hald. IL. pubera Say. L. americana Hald. L. ruficollis Lec. L. exigua Newm. L. spheericollis Say. L. subargentata Kby. L. vibex Newm. Ee zebra-Oliv. L. aurata Horn. LeAetubrica +5 ay: L. mutabilis Newm. L. emarginata. This fine large species emerges from dead beech timber in June; the holes are perfectly round and some of them one-half an inch in diameter. Many come from a singie tree, yet it is very difficult to get specimens. I have only taken two, and Miss Braun two. CYRTINUS. C. pygmeus Hald. This is the smallest of the family. PSENOCERUS. P. supernotatus Say. MONOHAMMUS. M. titillator Fab. M. confusor Kby. M. maculosus Huld. 55 162 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. DORCASCHEMA. D. wildii Uhiler. D. nigrum Say. D. alternatum Say. The first two species occur on osage orange and mulberry. By beating the limbs into an inverted umbrella they can be secured, but wildii clings very tightly and the limbs must be struck very hard to disloge them. D. nigrum I find on hickory. HETG@MIS. H. cinerea Oliv. GOES. G. pulchra Hald. G. oculata Lec. G. debilis Lec. ACANTHODERES. A. quadrigibbus Say. A. decipiens Hald. LEPTOSTYLUS. L. aculiferus Say. L. commixtus Hald. ' L. parvus Lec. L. macula Say. LIOPUS. L. variegatus Hald. L. alpha Say. L. fascicularis Harr. ie cinereus lee: L. variegatus breeds in honey locust. DECTES. D. spinosus Say. LEPTURGES. L. symmetricus Hald. L.. querci Pitch: i angulatussiec L. facetus Say. L. signatus Lec. lk. regularis ice. The latter is rare. I have beaten it from wild grape. The others are common and occur on honey locust. HYPERPLATYS. H. aspersus Say. H. maculatus Hald. UROGRAPHIS. U. triangulifer Hald. U. fasciatus De G. The former occurs on honey locust, the latter on beech. ACANTHOCINUS. A. obsoletus Oliv. ECYRUS. E. dasycerus Say. E. exiguus Lec. 56 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnatt. 163 EUPOGONIUS. E. tomentosus Hald. E. submarginatus Lec. KE. vestitus Say. HIPPOPSIS. H. lemniscata Fab. SAPERDA. S. calcarata Say. S. lateralis Fab. S. vestita Say. S. puncticollis Say. S. discoidea Fab. =. concolor Lee: S. tridentata Oliv. S. calcarata depredates on poplars, bores holes into the Carolina poplars, causing them to break by the force of the wind. L. tri- dentata during the last four or five years has done incalculable damage in destroying the fine “white elms” (Ulimuts americana) around this city. As S. tridentata has always been an abundant species here, I can not understand why it should suddenly become so destructive. Might it be due to the great destruction of wood- peckers that has been carried on here for years? I have often observed the red-headed woodpeckers (and other species) cutting out these larve from the trunks of the trees. S. lateralis occurs on hickory, puncticollis on Rhus. MECAS. M. inornata Say. OBEREA. O. tripunctata Fab. O. oculata Hald. O. basalis Lec. O. mandarina Fab. O. schumii Lec. O. ruficollis Fab. TETROPS. D..jucunda: Lec. TETRAOPES. T. canteriator Drap. T. tetraophthalmus Forst. This last is the very common “milk weed” beetle. The former is quite rare here. The best papers on the “Longicorns,” is synopsis of Cerambycidae by Chas. W. Leng, vols. 1, 11, 1, Iv, Entomologica Americana and Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., vol. vi. This work, which includes Leptura, was supplemented and com- pleted in 1896 by Mr. Leng tand Dr. Hamilton, Trans. xxuu1, p. to1. The Le Conte and Horn papers, in which were originally given many of these synoptic tables, are now out of print and unobtainable. The “Longicorns” have always been great favor- ites with collectors in all parts of the world. Some of them are very beautiful in form as well as color. 57 164 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. CHRYSOMELID-. ‘Leaf Eaters.” The numerous species of this family are mostly small insects, many of them of brilliant colors and pretty ornamentation. They can be collected in great numbers with a sweeping net, and also by using an inverted umbrella. Holding it under the vegetation, which is then beaten with a stick. The literature is scattered. Crotch, Le Conte and Horn have published many papers (about 60) in proceedings, Academy Natural Sciences and Trans. Amer- Ent. Soc., of Philadelphia, from 1851 to 1880. Since then Dr. Horn has published several papers on various genera in Trans. “Studies in Chrysomelide,” vol. x1x, p. 1; Eumolpini, 1892, vol. XIX, p. 195; Galerucint, 1893, vol. xx, p. 59; Halticim, 1889, vol. XVI, p. 163. Mr. Leng revised the Donacia Trans., 1891, XVIII, p. 159. As many species of this family play a very important part in agriculture ; they have been well studied by the Economic Ento- mologists, and their life histories worked out, with figures of many of the species and their larvee. This work has been published in “Tnsect Life,’ and the reports of the different state Entomologists. These reports can be obtained if applied for in time, by those interested. Our genera and species are as follows: DONACIA. D. equalis Say. 3 D. rufa Say D. metallica Ahrens. Of the 27 N. A. species and varieties of Donacia given by Mr. Leng, I have only taken three. This is doubtless due to want of suitable environment, such as lakes with lily pads and other aquatic vegetation. SYNETA. S. ferruginea Germ. LEMA, L. collaris Say. L. trilineata Oliv. ANOM(@A, A. laticlavia Forst. COSCINOPTERA. C. dominicana [ab. BABIA, B. quadriguttata Oliv. SAXINIS. S. omogera Lac. 58 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 165 CHLAMYS, C. plicata Fab. EXEMA, E. gibber Oliv. BASSAREUS, B. formosus Melsh. B. recurvus Say. B. detritus Oliv. B. lativittus Germ. B. mammifer Newm. CRYPTOCEPHALUS. C. quadrimaculatus Say. ~ C. venustus var. simplex Haid. C. quadrigtttulus Suff. C. “ var. cinctipennis Rand. C. quadruplex Newm. C. insertus Hald. C. guttulatus Oliv. C. mutabilis Melsh. C. venustus Fab. C. badius Suffr. PACHYBRACHYS, P. viduatus Fab. P. atomarius Melsh. P. trinotatus Wels. P. hepaticus Melsh. P. tridens Melsh. P. dilatatus Suffr. P. luridus Fab. MONACHUS. M. ater Hald. M. seminulum Suffr. M. saponatus Fab. DIACHUS, D. auratus Fab. D. chlorizans Suffr. D. pallidicornis Suffr. XANTHONTA. X. 10-notata Say. X. villosula Melsh. FIDIA. F, murina Cr, F. longipes Melsh. GLYPTOSCELIS. G. barbatus Say. MYOCHROUS. M. denticollis Say. CHRYSOCHUS, C. auratus Fab. TY MNES. T. bicolor Fab. TYPOPHORUS, T. viridicyaneus Cr. T. canella Fab. Dr. Horn suppresses all the other species given in the check lists. Our viridicyaneus are green, those from Texas bright blue. 5g 166 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. Canella varies very much, being of all shades of color from light all over, to jet black, which is the form called aterrima. GRAPHOPS. G. marcassita C7. G. nebulosa Lec. COLASPIS. C. brunnea Fab. RHABDOPTERUS. R. picipes Oliv. This is the form given in the check lists as Colaspis praetexta. See Horn’s paper on Ewmolpini before referred to. NODONOTA. N. tristis Oliv. N. convexa Say. N. clypealis Horn. N. puncticollis Lec. DORYPHORA, D. clivicollis Kby. D. juncta Germ. D. decemlineata Say. The larve of D. juncta are different looking from decemlineata and only found on Physalis. June. CHRYSOMELA. C. suturalis Fab. @.scalaris Lec. C. similis log. C. multipunctata Say. C. precelsis Rog. auc. “var. bigsbyana Kby. C. elegans Oliv. C. multiguttata Stahl. GASTROIDEA, G. polygoni Linn. G. cyanea Melsh. LINA. L. lapponica Linn. Ie. scripta dab: CEROTOMA. C. trifurcata Forst. PHYLLOBROTICA. P. discoidea Fab. PHYLLECHTHRUS. P. gentilis Lec. DIABROTICA. D. duodecimpunctata Oliv. D. vittata Fab. D. longicornis Say. TRIRHABDA, T. virgata Lec. 60 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 167 GALERUCELLA. G. sexvittata Lec. G. tuberculata Say. G. notulata Fab. G. decora Say. G. nymphe Linn. GALERUCA. G. externa Say. BLEPHARIDA. B. rhois Forst. HYPOLAMPSIS. H. pilosa J1). PH-EDROMUS. P. paradoxus Melsh. G:DIONYCHIS. O. gibbitarsis Say. ©. thyamoides C7. O. vians Il. O. sexmaculata JI. O. thoracica Fab. ©. limbalis Melsh. O. petaurista Fab. DISONYCHA. D. pennsylvanica Il. D. discoidea Fab. D. caroliniana Fab. D. xanthomelena Dahl. D. glabrata Fab. D. mellicollis Say. D. abbreviata Mels. D. collata Fab. SPH ZRODERMA. 5) opimia, Lec HALTICA. H. chalybea J7I. H. fuscoznea Mels. H. ignita Jl. He burgestiCr. H. carinata Germ. TRICHALTICA. T. scrabricula Cr. ORTHALTICA. O. copalina Fab. | CREPIDODERA. C. rufipes Linn. C. atriventris Melsh. C. helxines Linn. EPITRIX. Bi fuscula Cr. E. cucumeris Harr. E. lobata Cr. E. parvula Fab. MANTURA. M. floridana. Cr. 61 168 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. CHETOCNEMA. C. protensa Lec. C. parcepunctata Cyr. C. denticulata /lhg. C. confinis Cr. SYSTENA. S. hudsonias forst. S. senilis Say. APHTHONA. A. insolita Wels. PHYLLOTRETA. sinuata Steph. P. bipustulata Fab. vittata Fab. PB. picta,S ay. LONGITARSUS. turbatus Horn. L. solidaginis Horn. testaceus Mels. wit nak GLYPTINA. G. spuria Lec. DIBOLIA. D. borealis Chev. PSYLLIODES. Pe -comvexior zc. MICRORHOPALA. M. porcata Melsh. ODONTOTA. ©. dorsalis Thunb. O. nervosa Pane. O. rubra Web. OCTOTOMA. O. plicatula Fab. STENISPA, Simetallicas lao: CASSIDA, C. bivittata Say. COPTOCYCLA. C. aurichalcea Fab. C. purpurata Boh. C. guttata Ohw. C. clavata Fab. CHELYMORPHA. C. argus Licht. Octotoma plicatula is a very curious species. I have found it abundantly on the “Trumpet flower” (Tecoma radicans). Coptocycla is abundant on the “wild morning glory” (Caly- stegia sepmum). It is of the most beautiful golden hue, when fresh, 62 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 169 but when touched, begins to fade, and after death loses all of its golden color. Muicrorhopala is very rare here. BRUCHID-. “Pod Weevels.” Some of this family do considerable damage to beans, peas, etc. Dr. Horn has a fine synopsis of the family in Trans. American Ent. Soc., 1873, vol. Iv, pp. 311-342. SPERMOPHAGUS. S. robiniae Sch. BRUCHUS. B. pisi Linn. B. obsoletus Say. B. mimus Say. B. hibisei Oliv. B. discoideus Say. B. musculus Say. B. bivulneratus Horn. TENEBRIONID-. “Dark ground beetles.” Of this large and varied family we have comparatively few species. Their metropolis being the semi-desert and sandy regions of the West. Dr. Horn published a monog. of the family in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., 1870, new series, vol. XIV, pp. 253-404, a paper now hard to get. Since then the same author and Dr. Le Conte have published synoptic tables of a number of genera in Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., scattered from 1866 to 1880. Maj. T. L. Casey has a number of synoptic tables in the Ann. N. Y. Acad., 1890-91. Some of these treat of genera to which our local species belong. NYCTOBATES. N. pennsylvanicus De G. N. barbatus Knoch. The first occurs in great numbers under the loose bark of trees, the other is rare here, and differs in being smaller with much coarser punctures. HAPLANDRUS. H. femoratus Fab. SCOTOBATES. S. calcaratus Fab. XYLOPINUS. X. saperdioides Fab. 63 170 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. TENEBRIO. T. obscurus Fab. T. castaneus Knoch. T. molitor Linn. T. tenebrioides Beauv. ADELINA. A. pallida Say. OPATRINUS, O. notus Say. TRIBOLIUM. T. ferrugineum Fab. T. confusum Duv. In package of buckwheat flour I found thousands of confusum and its larvee, Sep. DICEDUS. D. punctatus Lec. ECHOCERUS. E. maxillosus Fab. ALPHITOBIUS. A. diaperinus Pang. THARSUS. T. seditiosus Lec. ULOMA. U. impressa Melsh., U. imberbis Lec. EUTOCHIA. E. picea Melsh, ANZEDUS. A. brunneus Ziegl. PARATENETUS. P. punctatus Sol. P. fuscus Lec. PRATEUS. P. fuscula Lec. DIAPERIS. D. hydni Fab. HOPLOCEPHALA. H. bicornis Oliv. PLATYDEMA. P. excavatum Say. P. ellipticum Fab. P. ruficornis Sturm. P. picilabrum JZelsh. P. flavipes Fab. P. subcostatum Lap. 64 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 171 PHYLETHUS. P. bifasciatus Say. HY POPHLEUS. H. thoracicus Melsh. H. parallelus Melsh. H. thoracicus was emerging from dead beech October 3, 1900. I have taken here a Hypophleus which is new, and for which 1 propose the name Hypophlaus rugosus. I took the species years ago and gave specimens to Drs. Horn and Le Conte, who then pronounced it new. I have not heard that it has been described. Its characters are as follows: Hypophleus rugosus n. sp. Dark brown, subshining, linear. Thorax slightly longer than wide, squarely truncate in front and behind, sides arcuate, angles obtuse, coarsely punctured. Interstices forming longitudinal rug more evident in front and at sides. Elytra conjointly rounded at tip,obsoletely striate and densely punctate, punctures finer than those of thorax. Head evenly and finely puntured with a shallow constriction behind the eyes, which are very prominent. Antenne (including four-jointed club), ten-jointed. Length, 3.8 mm. Eight specimens. Cincinnati, Ohio. PENTAPHYLLUS. P. pallidus Lec. BOLITOTHERUS. B. bifurcus Fab. BOLETOPHAGUS. B. corticola Say. HELOPS. H. micans Fab. H. cisteloides Gavm. MERACANTHA. M. contracta Beauv. 65 172 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. STRONGYLIUM. S. terminatum Say. S. crenatum Makl. Crenatum is a rare and beautiful species. I have beaten speci- mens from the dead branches of Haw tree, June 22, 1900, and June 26, I9Ol. CISL ELIDAL: Maj. Casey has published a synopsis of this family in annals of N. Y. Acad. Sciences, 1891, vol. v1, pp. 69-170. ALLECULA. A. nigrans Melsh. HYMENORUS. H. obscurus Say. H. humeralis Lec, H. niger Mels. H. difficilis Casey. H. rufipes Lec. CISTELA. C. brevis Say. C. ameena Say. ISOMIRA. I. quadristriata Coup. I. ruficollis Ham. I. valida Sz. MYCETOCHARA. M. haldemani Lec. M. tenuis Lec. M. fraterna Say. M. marginata Lec. M. foveata Lec. M. binotata Say. M. gilvipes Csy. M. gracilis Lec. M. megalops Csy. M. laticollis Lec. This was once a very rich locality for Mycetochara. I found them in numbers on the trunks of dead trees. They are brittle insects, breaking easily when handled. To get them perfect, they should be picked up gently, not an easy thing to do, as they run so rapidly and are not easily caught. They feed on fungus. I have a species which I believe to be new and for which I propose the name: Mycetochara horni n. sp. Color testaceus, head and thorax darker. Legs paler. Anterior coxz very large and approximate. Elytra slightly wider behind 66 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 173 from middle. Separately rounded at tips. Striae moderately deep, punctured and clothed with sparse, long, yellow, recumbent hairs. Thorax wider than long, narrower than elytra at humeri, broadly rounded in front, explanate at sides from apex to base, more broadly at hind angles, which are obtusely rounded. Base almost squarely truncate, disk with a broad shallow grove from base to apex. Punctures rather coarser than those of elytra. Head still more coarsely and deeply punctured. Eyes very large and prom- inent, as large or larger in proportion than those of megalops Casey, separated by the width of their narrowest diameter. Body below rather coarsely and sparsely punctured. A large species, as large or larger than the largest binotata. Length 7.8mm. Cincin- nati, Ohio. I have seen two specimens. In looking at it years ago Dr. Horn thought it new, and I have not seen any description of it, so I dedicate it to him. CAPNOCHROA. C. fuliginosa Melsh. ANDROCHIRUS. A. fuscipes Melsh. A. erythropus Kby. A. femoralis Ohv. LAGRIID-. ARTHROMACRA, A. enea Say. STATIRA. S. splendens Melsh. S. gagatina Melsh., Dr. Horn has a synopsis of this family. Trans. 1888, vol. xv, p. 28. I find them by beating vegetation into an inverted umbrella. May and June. MELANDRYID-A. TETRATOMA, T. truncorum Lec. T. tessellata Melsh. PENTHE. P. obliquata Fab. P. pimelia Fab. P. obliquata differs from the other by having the scutellum covered with orange colored hairs. SYNCHROA. S. punctata Newm. MALLODRYA. M. subzenea Horn. I discovered this new genus here in 1887. Dr. Horn described 67 174 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. it in Trans. April, 1888, vol. xv., p. 42. I beat the specimens, which were then abundant, from the branches of dead “‘honey locust.” MELANDRYA. M. striata Say. SPILOTUS. S. quadripustulosus J/Zels. ENCHODES. E. sericeus Hald. MYSTAXUS. M. simulator Newm. HYPULUS. H. lituratus Say. H. concolor Lec. H. vandoueri Muls. SYMPHORA. S. flavicollis Hald. S. rugosa Hald. EUSTROPHUS, E. repandus Horn. Ix. tomentosus Say. E. bicolor Say. HOLOSTROPHUS. H. bifasciatus Say. HALLOMENUS. H. scapularis Melsh. ORCHESIA. O. castanea Mels. O. gracilis Muls. CANIFA, C. plagiata Melsh. C. pallipes Melsh. C. pusilla Hald. NOTHUS. N. varians Lec. LACCONOTUS. L. punctatus Lec. Dr. Horn has published synopses of Hypulus, Eustrophus, Holostrophus and Orchesia in Trans., 1888, vol. xv. He gave Mycterus and Lacconotus in same publication in 1879 (vol. 7). Le Conte published syn. of Hallomenus in Proc. Amer. Philos. 50c.,,.1878, vol: 17, p. 619. 68 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 17 on PVT ELD AS. PYTHO. P. americanus Kby. Only this one species of this family has been taken here, and that years ago. CGEDEMERIDA. MICROTONUS. M. sericans Lec. NACERDES. N. melanura Linn. OXACIS. OWeana Lec. ASCLERA. A. ruficollis Say. A. puncticollis Say. MORDELLIDE. In this journal, October, ’92, p. 123, I published a paper enum- erating 53 species found here. Since then a few additions have been made. The locality is very rich in the family. The synop- sis by John B. Smith (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., July, 1882) is the latest and best on the subject. PENTARIA. P. trifasciata Mels. TOMOXIA. T. bidentata Say. T. hilaris Say. linea Lec. MORDELLA. M. borealis Lec. M. serval Say. M. malena Germ. M. oculata Say. M. scutellaris Fab. M. triloba Say. M. octopunctata Fab. M. undulata Mels. M. marginata Melsh. M. discoidea Mels. M. lunulata Hel. GLIPODES. G. sericans Mels. MORDELLISTENA. M. bicinctella Lec. M. varians Lec. M. arida Lec. M. gramica Lec. M. lutea Melsh. M. ustulata Lec. 69 176 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. M. trifasciata Say. M. semiusta Say. M. lepidula Say. M. nigricans Mels. M. limbalis Melsh. M. pustulata Mels. M. biplagiata Helm. M. convicta Lec. M. vilis Lec. M. splendens Smith. M. vapida Lec. M. morula Lec. M. decorella Lec. M. ambusta Lec. M. bipustulata Hel. M. singularis Smith. M. picipennis Siuth. M. unicolor Lec. M. fulvicollis Jfelsh. M. marginalis Say. M. militaris Lec. M. pubescens Fab. M. comata Lec. M. bihamata Mels. M. aspersa Mels. M. liturata Mels. M. tosta Lec. M. fuscata Mels. M. amica Lec. M. suturella Helm. M. picilabris Hel. M. attenuata Say. M. infima Lec. M. discolor Mels. Among the unidentified species I have taken here, two are so distinct that I describe them as new, and characterize them as follows: Mordellistena sexnotata, Nn. sp. Brownish yellow, sparsely covered with coarse hairs, which are finer and more sparse on head. Humeri each with a very dark brown spot. Another in middle of elytra, beginning at base sur- rounding scutellum and extending backward in triangular shape about one third the length. A large nearly round spot on each elytron at middle, but not attaining suture. And a sixth spot or band across the elytra at posterior fourth, not attaining the tip. A fain darker spot on disk of thorax. Tibia with three oblique black ridges, the one nearest the tip being shorter. First joint of tarsi with two, second with one. Legs all pale, length 3 mm. One specimen Ky. opp. Cin., O. 70 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. aa fit, Mordellistena smithi, n. sp. Piceus black. Anterior and middle legs testaceus. Elytra rufo piceous with lighter red splotches on humeri extending obliquely backward toward the suture. The amount of red varies, in some specimens being more extended. Pubescence coarse, yellow. Hind tibia with three, Ist tarsal joint with three, 2d with one, well defined ridges. Length, 3.5 mm. 14 specimens, Cincinnati, O. To my old friend, Prof. John B. Smith, of New Jersey, this species is dedicated. His excellent paper on the family (Trans., July, 1882, p. 73) was the inspiration that started me into a study of this interesting family. I have a number of Mordellistena that are perhaps also new, which I have reserved for future study. ANTHICID/E. EURYGENIUS. E. wildii Lec. STEREOPALPUS. S. mellyi Laf. CORPHYRA. C. canaliculata Lec. C. pulchra Lec. C. terminalis Say. C. labiata Say. C. fulvipes Newm. C. lugubris Say. Corphyra labiata was an abundant species during May and June. Found on tall “horse weeds” (Ambrosia trifida) growing in river bottoms. Associated with them, but very much less abundant, was the form described as C. pulchra by Le Conte. This seems to be a mere variety of C. labiata having the legs pale. In a large series they average the same size. C. lugubris is an abundant species (May-June). C. fulvipes, seems to be a variety of C. lugubris having the legs pale. It is less abundant than lugubris. Of C. terminalis Say. Dr. Horn says, Trans., 1871, p. 71 178 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 282: ‘Yellow space at apex of elytra not impressed.” In a large series of males, | start with the typical male form as defined above. Then one with the faintest trace of an impression, and so on, more and more defined, until one is reached with a well defined impression, close to the suture but not attaining apical angle. When Le Conte described C. canaliculata, Smith. Mis. Collections, pt. I, p. 143, only a single one (type) was known. During 1880, I collected hundreds on the blossoms of “white thorn” and “buckeye,” but all were females. They varied from the type in color as follows: Thorax rufous, elytra black, and legs black. The legs in the type were pale, thorax and elytra black, legs pale, and black all over. Surely if C. pulchra and fulvipes are good species, several could be made of canaliculata. Since 1880 I have secured several males. They have the apices of elytra broadly tipped with pale. Why the males should be so extremely rare, I do not know. At certain “haw” trees when in blossom, by hold- ing my umbrella inverted under the branches and striking them a hard blow with a stick, Corphyra would shower down, hundreds to a tree, and yet the larve are to me absolutely unknown, nor have I the slightest idea where to look for them. XYLOPHILUS. X. basilis Lec. X. fasciatus Mels. X. nebulosus Lec. X. piceus Lec. MACRATRIA. M. murina Fab. NOTOXUS. N. bicolor Say. N. monodon Fabr. N. bifasciatus Lec. N. anchora Hentz. TOMODERUS. T. constrictus Say. DILANDIUS. D. myrmecops Csy. I took this singular species from under a flat stone, Nov. 17. ANTHICUS. A. obscurus Laf. A. floralis Payk. A. sturmii Laf. A. cervinus Laf. A. formicarius Laf. A. pubescens Lec. A. cinctus Say. The synopsis by Le Conte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Science of Phil., vol. 6, p. 9, is very old, being publishing in 1852, since then Dr. Horn has published good synopsis of Corphyra and Notoxus Trans., vol. x, 1883. Maj. Casey has paper on Anthicide, Col. notices in Annals of N. Y. Acad. Sciences, vitI, p. 624. 72 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 179 PYROCHROID A. PYROCHROA. P. flabellata Fab. P. femoralis Lec. DENDROIDES. D. bicolor Newz. D. concolor Newm. Le Conte published synopsis in 1855, Proc. Acad., vol. 7, p. 274. MELOID-A. “Blister Beetles.” This family is not very abundant here. Le Conte published synopsis in 1853, vol. 6, p. 328-350. Macrobasis and Epicauta were treated by Horn in 1873, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., vol. 13. MELOE, M. impressus Kby. TRICRANIA, T. sanguinipennis Say. March 22, 1896, I took 7 of this species crawling on “sorrel,” Rume.. ZONITIS. Z. bilineata Say: MACROBASIS. M. unicolor Kby. M. immaculata Say. EPICAUTA. E. vittata Fab. E. pennsylvanica De G. EK. cinerea Forst. POMPHOPEA. Ps enea Say, April 27, 1891, I took a fine male and female of this species from the throat of a kingbird I had shot for preservation. RHIPIPHORID-. PELECOTOMA. P. flavipes Meish. But one specimen of this species in many years. RHIPIPHORUS. R. dimidiatus Fab. R. limbatus Fab. R. cruentus Germ. I find these three species in the fall on flowers. 13 180 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. MYODITES. M. fasciatus Say. Myodites are found on blossoms but they take flight so quickly when alarmed, that they are quite difficult to catch. STYLOPIDA. XENOS. X. peckii Kby. A very curious genus that is parasitic in the bodies of wasps. During 1900 and i1go1 I captured a number of wasps that were infected with these very interesting little creatures. The figures given in Packard’s Guide to the Study of Insects, p. 482-483, for Stylops childreni are exactly those of Xenos pecku as I have been able to identify the species. Our talented and lamented friend, H. G. Hubbard, has given a most interesting account of the rearing of Xenos from a colony of wasps in Fla. See Can. Entomologist, Oct., 1892, p. 259. I have one of these specimens and it only differs from mine in being of a pale color, mine being sooty black. 1 have hatched Xenos from the following wasps, viz.: Amnophila urnaria, Polistes fuscatus, Prionyx atrata, Sphex ichneumonea, Odynerius molestus. I have pinned in my box with Xenos the following host wasps, Viz: Poslistes 5, Prionyx 3, Amnophila 2, Sphex and Odynerus one each. And this is about the proportion in which I found they were infected. I confined the .infected wasps in tumbler with false bottom of screen wire, first putting in bit of blotter to absorb moisture that might run down. I fed the wasps jelly and water, which they greedily ate, first convincing themsclves that they could not escape. Stylopized individuals appeared during June, July, August, September and October. Most of the male Xenos were hatched in August. Several wasps died before the beetles hatched. From one of these I hatched the beetle after the wasp had been dead two days; from another dead wasp containing onlv female Nenos, a lot of the minute larve hatched and crawled out on the tips of the hairs of the wasp and died there. The activity of the male Xenos, so well described by Mr. Hubbard in the article above referred to, is simply astonishing, and it is no wonder that the creature wears itself out and dies in 20 or 30 minutes. If the wasp can catch the Xenos she makes short work of it. In trying to take out of tumbler a male Xenos I allowed it to escape and it darted away like a flash. The Xenos when hatched is jet, opaque black, the fan-like wings when fresh have a beautiful mother of pearl iridescent tinge. The body is very flexible and 74 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 181 How union of the they keep twisting and writhing it about. Though sexes is effected 1 have so far been unable to find out. if the end of the female that projects is the end that receives the male, then the operation would be considerably simplified. The remaining families are called “Snout Beetles” and “Wee- vils.” Most of them have the head prolonged into a snout or proboscis. RHYNCHITID&. EUGNAMPTUS. E. angustatus Hbst. E. collaris Fab. RHYNCHITES. R. hirtus Fab. ATTELABIDAL, ATTELABUS. A. bipustulatus Fab. OTIORHY NCHID/E. HORMORUS. H. undulatus Uhiler. AMNESIA. A. grisea Hori. PANSCOPUS. P. erinaceus Say. PHYXELIS. P. rigidus Say. CERCOPEUS. C. chrysorrhaeus Say. TANYMECUS. T. confertus Gyll. PANDELETE] US. P. pilaris Hast. BRACHYSTYLUS. B. acutus Say. APHRASTUS. A. teeniatus Say. 75 182 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. CYPHOMIMUS. C. dorsalis Horn. ARACANTHUS, A. pallidus Say. SITONES. S. flavescens Marsh. CURCULIONID#, ITHYCERUS. I. noveboracensis Forst. APION. A. cribricolle Lec. A. porcatum Boh. Many unidentified species. The latest paper on Apion is by Mr. H. C. Fall, Trans., vol. Oct., 1898, p. 105. PHYTONOMUS. P. punctatus Fab. P. comptus Say. LISTRONOTUS. L. tuberosus Lec. L. sulcirostris Lec. L. squamiger Say. L. latiusculus Boh. L. inzequalipennis Boh, L. caudatus Say. Many unnamed species. MACROPS. M. spurcus Boh. M. solutus Boh. Many unnamed species. LIXUS. L. punctinasus Lec. L. concavus Say. L. terminalis Lec. L. amplexus Casey. DORYTOMUS. D. mucidus Say. D. brevicollis Lec. BARYTYCHIUS. B. ameenus Say. SMICRONYX. S. ovipennis Lec. 5. -vestitus Wee. S. flavicans Lec. S. corniculatus Fab. S. tychoides Lec. ONYCHYLIS. O. nigrirostris Boh. 76 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 183 LISSORHOPTRUS. L. simplex Say. BAGOUS. B. sellatus Lec. B., restrictus: Lec: B. magister Lec. B. mammillatus Say. OTIDOCEPHALUS. O. myrmex Hbst. O. levicollis Horn. O. chevrolatii Horn. O. perforatus Horn. The last named is rare, the others common. Perforatus may be known from the others, by its brown color, the others are shining black; good anatomical characters, however, separate them. See Horn’s Synopsis, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., 1873, vol. 13, p. 448. MAGDALIS, M. lecontei Horn. M. armicollis Say. M. barbita Say. M. pallida Say. M. pandura Say. COCCOTORUS. C. scutellaris Lec. ANTHONOMUS. A. quadrigibbus Say. A. suturalis Lec. A. nebulosus Lec. A. corvulus Lec. A. profundus Lec. “A. crategi Walsh. A. scutellatus Gyll. A. mixtus Lec. A. signatus Say. A. validus Dts. ORCHESTES. . pallicornis Say. O. niger Horn: . canus Horn. ©. ephippiatus Say. ELLESCHUS. E. ephippiatus Say. PRIONOMERUS. P. calceatus Say. PIAZORHINUS. P. scutellaris Say. THYSANOCNEMIS. T. fraxini Lec. T. helvola Lec. PLOCETES. PY ola Lec. GYMNETRON. G. teter Fab. qe 184 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. L/EMOSACCUS. L. plagiatus Fab. CONOTRACHELUS. C. juglandis Lec. C. adspersus Lec. C. albicinctus Lec. C. posticatus Say. C. nenuphar Hbst. C. geminatus Dey. C. seniculus Lec. C. cribricollis Say. C. afhinis S27, C. tuberosus Lec. C. elegans Boh. C. anaglypticus Say. C. crategi Melsh. © erinadeus Wee: RYSSEMATUS. R. palmacollis Say. R. annectens Casey. R. equalis Horn. The last species I found eating out the heads of the “swamp mild weed” (Asclepias incarnata) growing on the border of ponds, May 24. It was abundant. ~ ZAGLYPTUS. Z. sulcatus Lec. ZL. striatus Lec. Sulcatus is abundant, striatus is rare. It has been suggested to me that they were sexes of each other, but I am convinced they are distinct, as I have found both species paired. MICROHYUS. : M. setiger Lec. ACAMPTUS. A. rigidus Lec. A. echinus Lec. ACALLES. A. carinatus Lec. A. clavatus Say. A. sordidus Lec. CANISTES. C. schusteri Casey. TYLODERMA, T. foveolatum Say. T. fragarize Riley. T. nigrum Casey. T. variegatum Horn. T. xreum Say. PSOMUS. P.. politus Casey. PHYRDENUS. P. undatus Lec. 78 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 185 CRYPTORHYNCHUS. C. parochus Hbst. Cyfallax Lec. C. bisignatus Say. C. minutissimus Lec. C. fuscatus Lec. C. ferratus Say. C. obtentus Hbst. ~ PIAZURUS. P. oculatus Say. COPTURUS. C. quercus Say. C. binotatus Lec. ACOPTUS. A. suturalis Lec. TACHYGONUS. T. tardipes Lec. I have taken this very curious little beetle by beating white em (Ulmus americana) into an inverted umbrella, June 19. CRAPONIUS. G. ineequalis Say. CCELIODES. C. curtus Gyll. C. acephalus Say. C. asper Lec. C. nebulosus Lec. C. flavicaudis Boh. CEUTORHYNCHUS. C. rape Gylll. C. zimmermani Gyll. C. sulcipennis Lec. C. erysimi Fab. C. septentrionalis Gyll. This last species I never observed here until 1892. PELENOMUS. P. sulcicollis Fab. CCELOGASTER. C. zimmermani Gyll. RHINONCUS. R. percarpius Linn. R. longulus Lec. R. pyrrhopus Lec. BARIS. B. umbilicata Lec. B. tumescens Lec. B. transversa Say. B. zrea Boh. TRICHOBARIS. T. trinotata Say. PSEUDOBARIS. P. angusta Lec. 79 186 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. GLYPTOBARIS. G. rugicollis Lec. AULOBARIS. A. scolopax Say. AMPELOGLYPTER. A. sesostris Lec. Aw ater Lec. MADARUS. M. undulatus Say. STETHOBARIS. S. tubulatus Say. CENTRINUS. C. scutellum-album Say. C. confusus Boh. C. strigicollis Casey. , C. prolixus Lec. C. striatirostris Lec. C. perscitus Hbst. C. modestus Boh. C. picumnus Hbst. LIM NOBARIS. Le calvarizee Le punctifer Casey: L. rectirostris Lec. ZYGOBARIS. T. subcalva Lec. BARINUS. B. cribricollis Lec. EUCHLETES. E. echidna Lec. This curious little porcupine weevil was in clusters on trunk ofa dead: beech: tree, Sept. 27, 1900.. 1 took one cluster of 30: They very closely resemble the color of the bark. PLOCAMUS. P. hispidulus Lec. BALANINUS. B. nasicus Say. B. quercus Horn. B. carye Horn. B. uniformis Lec. BRENTHID. EUPSALIS. E. minuta Drury. This is the only representative we have here of the array of strange looking elongate forms that are found in tropical coun- tries. We have in the extreme South and S. West three species 80 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 187 of Brenthus. Eupsalis lives under bark. I have found many under the bark of a buckeye tree. The male has the mouth parts shaped like pincers,. quite different from the straight beak of the female. CALANDRID. RHODOBENUS. R. tredecimpunctatus ///. SPHENOPHORUS. S. zee Walsh. S. callosus Oliv. S. melanocephalus Fabr. S. parvulus Gyll. S. sayi Gyll. CALANDRA. C. oryzae Linn. C. remotepunctata Gyll. C. granaria Fab. DRYOPHTHORUS. D. americanus Bedel. DRYOTRIBUS. D. mimeticus Horn. TYPHLOGLYMMA. T. puteolatum Dury. This was described by me in this journal, March 27, 1901. HIMATIUM. H.errans: Lec. COSSONUS. C. platalea Say. C. corticola Say. C. concinnus Boh. C. several unnamed species. ALLOMIMUS. A. dubius Horn. STENOMIMUS. S. pallidus Boh. WOLLASTONIA. W. quercicola Boh. AMAURORHINUS. A. nitens Horn. PHLG:OPHAGUS. P. minor Horn. STENOSCELIS. S. brevis Boh. ar 188 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. SCOLY TIDAL A large family, some of them very destructive to timber. PLATYPUS. P. compositus Say. MONARTHRUM. M. fasciatum Say. M. mali Fitch. PITYOPHTHORUS. P. pullus Zimin. HYPOTHENEMUS. H. eruditus West. XYLOTERUS, X. politus Say. XYLEBORUS. X. celsus Eich. X. pubescens Zimm. X. xylographus Say. X. celatus Etch. TOMICUS. T. calligraphus Germ. MICRACIS. M. rudis Lec. THYSANOES. T. fimbricornis Lec. SCOLYTUS. S. quadrispinosus Say. S. rugulosus Ritz. S. muticus Say. CHRAMESUS. C. seorize: Lec. PHLCOTRIBUS, P. liminaris Harris. P. frontalis Oliv. P. linunaris has been taken on the “bladder nut” (Staphylea trifoliata) by Prof. Hine. CNESINUS. C. strigicollis Lec. DENDROCTONUS. D. terebrans Lec. CRYPTURGUS. C. atomus Lec. 82 Dury: Coleoptera of Cincinnati. 189 HYLESINUS. H. aculeatus Say. H. sericeus Mann, H. fasciatus Say. HYLASTES. H.rufipes Eich. Hl, rufipes is the same as Hylesinus opaculus of the check list. See Proc. Nat. Musuem, vol. 18, p. 605. ANTHRIBID/A. EURYMYCTER. E. fasciatus Oliv. TROPIDERES. T. bimdculatus Oliv, T.. rectus: Lec. ALLANDRUS. . A. bifasciatus Lec. HOR MISCUS. Hi: saltator: Lec. TOXOTROPIS. T. pusillus Lec. EUSPHYRUS. E. walshii Lec. I have taken these last three species on osage orange. PIEZOCORYNUS. P. dispar Gyll. Pamixtus: ec: ANTHRIBUS. A. cornutus Say. CRATOPARIS. C. lunatus Fab. BRACHYTARSUS. B. alternatus Say. B. tomentosus Say. B. variegatus Say. ARZEOCERUS. A. fasciculatus De G. Found in coffee berries. CHORAGUS. C. sayii Lec. Several unidentified species of Scolytids and Anthribids prob- ably new. 83 faye ih Ae eho : | Ne. ae Weg it eerie a PAGE PCa Le Sts acres nie eee 7 ENCANLPLUS: © 37.1eerkin 7 Acanthocinus ....... 50 Acanthoderes ....... 56 PERG S's, suc /sucrateneeaton Tat PNCIMe OCEAN tps aensts 40 ENGINICCOPS, eter eteciaiee 55 INCOPUUSE ha-iee teste 7O ENCES, 43 oi7esi tiers the 29 PXCHEMOGES tect che cists 39 PNGUODUMS, oslarsrn ahaa rey 17 Weylephorus, i4.:.25:.. 16 PxMelaiae ys: ees eee 64 Wdelocera: xaccnie dere: 35 PNGEAMIES ycteccuhVeltusacic LA Bi oialliialss, vc isi8 Balen 47 ASOENIURY Bien Pear eter IL Avcathidiuim:. ~ +. iz <)- 14 ING ONOMERIS .. 2 2)ih 9 PNeurIS cpr e..,5 atta Sek 4O /\GHTOLUSS ae en one 37 Pla Ss 2 ak biepstr | etic 36 PMleochata: nia.ekteniae 16 ANitbatchori meyer Getans res 31 PN Werrnuclint’s: «2. /.ty acet .: aikutws 8 Omethes! ee .ccenee 4 Omophront+..) eer 3 @mositae-(3.0 ee ae 30 Onthophagus ....... Onychylis - caves 7o odes ¥ ici ot Cereb tt 9 Opatninus . 2: ese 64 @rehesiay > “2. e @rchestes were paces Fl Orcpnitis > Hei 28 Orthalticassacpasks OL Orthopleura .;......43 iOrthosomia.: ts reses52 Orthostethus ....... 37 Osmoderma-s-i9-Aeceat OSarierre’ see h er 19 Otidocephalus .:....77 OTIORHYNCHI- DABS cee: eee 75 xed Cis* 0 3.k aa 69 Oxycnemis 22130 OxyPoris - eee rey. wee 19 Onmytelus) Seteretieee 19 Pachybrachys ...... 50 PachyScelitss pani tee 4O Ped ers ¢suriiescaere 18 Ralaminusic kates ee 18 Pallodes 4 2k tic 30 IPangees) oo veesihey 15 Pandeletejus ....<... 75 Pantscopus-2 saree 75 Parandra-: Aces Paratenétus, . kek 64 PARNID AL ee eer3s Paromalius< 9. s:senane Pasimachitis® .cheerncwe Passalius' pase eA Patrobus:6. een ae Pediacus jaar Pelecotoma tgs ee 73 Pelenomts..e ees 0 Felidhota. aietels aie 6 Nymphaea advena Sol......... I Castalia odorata (Dry.) W..... 1 Magnolia acuminata L........ 2b Liriodendron tulipifera L..... 2b Hydrastis Canadensis L........ I Actaea al bas ue) e villi emer nee: 2c Cimicifuga racemosa (L.)..... I Syndesmon thalictroides L. ING ESAS er ete ate ies ehiskeet a la or I Hepatica acuta (Pursh.) Br.... 6 Ranunculus repens L.........2¢, 6 oe sceleratus I.....2c, 6 Podophyllum peltatum L..... Ze" Jeffersonia diphylla (L.) Pers... 1 Caulophyllum thalictroides L. 1 Berberis vulgaris L, Menispermum Canadense L.... I Sassafras Sassafras (L.) Karst. 1b Benzoin Benzoin (L.) Coult..2b, 5 Sanguinaria Canadensis L..... I Chelidonium majus L......... it Papaver somniferum L........ 5 Bicuculla Canadensis (Gol.) Min ess Re ee ere or I Sisymbrium officinale (L.) SCOP ls 5 6'fiis ecm acrde ecru ee 5,6 Roripa armoracia (l.) A.S. H.. 1 Bursa Bursa-pastoris (L.) Britt. 6 Heuchera Americana L........ I Hydrangea arborescens L..... I Liquidambar styraciflua L..... 7 Hamamelis Virginiana L..... 28 Porteranthus stipulatus (Muhl) Brite.) ea ae oe se 1b Rubus willosiis Antersee nee. o- 1b Cincinnati Society of Natural History. Fragaria Virginiana Duch..... 5 Potentilla Cagadensisily.a.. - = aed Geum Virginianum L......... I Agrimonia mollis (T. & G.) Britt iors sentir ls, Meee ee 4 Malus Malus (\L.) Britt........ 2b Prunus serotina Ehrh......... 2b Amygdalus Persica L......... Buy Cassia Marylandica L.......... 3 i. @hamaecristaiys ores. 3 Gymnocladus dioicus L. (Koch.) 5 Baptisia tinctoria (L.) R.& Br..1, 3 Melilotus alba Desyv........... Bal officinalis (L.) Lam. .3, 4 Trifolium pratense L,...:...-.. 4 Robinia Pseudacacia L....... 20a Geranium maculatum L....... I Oxalis stricta: st ete 6 6 witlacka En .5 stock oon ee 6 Linum usitatissimum L....... 5 Xanthoxylum Americanum L,. 2b,5 Rieleamiatoliatavlyes- eee 1b Ailanthus glandulosa Desf..1b, 2b Polygala seneva a aaa ee I ne viridescems Ty)... 40: I Ricinus communis L.......... 5 Euphorbia corollata Eng...... Ib ~ maculata .-<8e seer: 3 a Preslii Purshiy =: 53: a Callitriche Austini Eng........ 6 Rhus copallina L............ aby 5 “< glabra Ty, vy BER eee 2b, 5 <. hirtal (Ey. )Sadw'. -..: 2b, 5 ‘o “radi cansuly ace iit. faeae 3 Hex opacay Atty: .2°2. 125s emees 3 Euonymus atropurpureus Jacq. 1b Celastrus scandens L.......... Ib Aesculus Hippocastanum L,... 1b Impatiens aurea Muhl......... 6 a. biflora Wal.....7.... 6 Ceanothus Americanus L..... Ib Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Tic) ORL ee tae 2, 2b Malva rotundifolia L.......... 6 Medicinal Plants Growing in Vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio. Miola odorata Tee kis 3052 7.4 6 Oeuothera biennis (L.) Scop.2, 2b Bralia racemosaky. ~ cies «-,2%.)2:- I Sanicula Marylandica L....... I Washingtonia longistylis (Torr. ) REED ona. «= 5 eM eresd ease 23 pte Bo I Riri tile CANTY lye: 209 cye,2!5 acres 5 Danes) Carotaiyi st... ae 1,5 Cornus Amonum Mill........ 2b Se, Mae ESS atic caress wk 2b Monotropa uniflora L......... I Anagallis arvensis L.......... 3 Diospyros Virginiana L...... 2b, 5 Fraxinus Americana L........ 2b “ mipra Marsh. oo 324- 2b y quadrangulata Mx... 2b Chionanthus Virginica L...... Ib agustrum yaleare 1... .22-..5. 3 Sabbatia angularis (L.) Pursh. 6 Frasera Carolinensis Walt..... I Apocynum androsaemifoliumL. 1 cannabinum L..... I Asclepias incarnata L....... ceaest SyilaCa leery ays 2 ae, 3 I i BADE LOSA La o.5 chee I Lappula Virginiana (L.) Gr... I I Cynoglossum officinale L..... see I Mertensia Virginica (L.) D.C. 3 Verbena hastatal. .... 2.5.0) I RS Miiellolia wy 2 Ss. I Scutellaria lateriflora L........ 6 Marrubium vulgare L......... 6 Bepeta.cataria dy. 22.22 as.6'. <5 3,4 Glecoma hederacea L.......... 3 Weonurus'CardiacaWo.3.5..... Ze gl Babvia lytata Tocco. es acess... z See OLICIMI ALIS Myra soot c: 8,32 = 3 Hedeoma pulegioides L....... 6 Melissa officinalis L........... 6 Koellia pilosa (Nutt.) Britt.... 6 “ Virginiana (.) McM... 6 Lycopus VirginicusL.. ...... 6 233 Wentharpiperita Iisceeen- 2a: 6 Spicatanly: taxsss6e2s 2% 6 Collinsonia Canadensis L...... 6 Solanum Dulcamara Ty... ....- its ¥ tuberosum Isa oc) 5 2 6 a oh Csaq hh sts Pe aI ee re 3 Lycopersicon Lycopersicon (I. ) IRALS ts Hes vets Nees cee nieis = 6 Datura Stramonium E......... 3,5 Nicotiana Tabacum J,..:.:...: 3 Verbascum Thapsus L........ 3,4 Scrophularia Marylandica L...1, 3 Ettelqneglabraayh goes: tk. 3 Veronica peregrina L......... 3 Leptandra Virginica(L.) Nutt. 1 Digitalis purpurea L......... 3 Leptamnium Virginianum (L.) Beatie ose ar 6 Catalpa Catalpa (L.) Karst.... 2b Plantago Rugelii Dene........ Is 4 Cephalanthus occidentalis L.. 2b GaliimpAparineay.se.e.sce)- ir 6 Sambucus Canadensis L....... 4,5 Viburromvopulis ys sans.) = 2c 2b < prunifolium L...... Ib Wobeliainflata Wy. 25222 -ceiee 3,5 Vernonia fasciculata Mx...... I Eupatorium perfoliatum L....3, 4 sa putpuream! Ll.) LE Grindelia squarrosa (Pursh.) Wyre teers acted Wastes ys ete 3,4 AStexpusiCenS: ly.2.e 2 cect. a I Erigeron ramosus ( Wal.) B.S.P. 6 Philadelphicus L..... 6 Anaphalis margaritacea L, (B. STE crete, stisisyeus oars ose ctee oe 2 Inula vieleniuat Eo. ccs cic I Polymina Uvedalia L.......... I Silphium perfoliatum L....... I Ambrosia artemisiaefolia L.... 3 # jig bots Hs Bs ae em tien 2 Xanthium spinosum L........ 6 Rudbeckia laciniata L......... 6 Helianthus annuus L.......... 5 234 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. Bidens bipinnata L........... ae ce connata Viuhlyes- 2822. . frOUdOsaleae rier ce: Helenium autumnale L....... Achillea Millefolium L........ Chrysanthemum lLeucanthe- mum Ty. . Chrysanthemum Parthenium (L.) Tanacetum vulgare Ijy.).:.. 22.2 6 Artemisia vulgaris Ij. ..-.0.-2. 3,4 Erechtites hieracifolia (L.) Raf.1,6 Atctinm Lappa. dy. sas .0cea ae aes Cniens arvensis (1. RODS) .. 5 001 Taraxacum Taraxacum (L,.) Karst I Wactucarsativaly.-- a easeee ae 7 WirOSan lye ere cra 7 Nabalus albus (L.) Hook...... 6 Orthography of Names of the Natades. 235 ARTICLE VIII.—ORTHOGRAPHY OF NAMES OF THE NAIADES. By JosuA LINDAHL (CINCINNATI). The current literature on the fresh-water mussels, more than any other branch of zoology, is so filled with glaring orthographic blunders, that it seems necessary that something be done, without further delay, toward establishing a fixed basis for spelling the scientific names of the 1,200 species and varieties which, according to Stmpson’s Synopsis*, belong to the world’s fauna of the said group. More than one-fifth of them are now generally written wrong, in defiance of the rules for the orthography of such names. These rules are set down in a series of Canons and Recommendations in the Code of Nomenclature, adopted first by the American Ornithologists’ Union (New York, 1892). The following have a particular bearing on the corrections which I am going to present. Canon VIII.—Proper names of species, and of sub- species or “‘ varieties,’ are single words, simple or com- pound, preferably adjectival or genitival, or taken as such, when practicable agreeing in gender and number with any generic name with which they are associated in binominal or trinominal nomenclature, and written with a small initial letter. CaNon XXX.--Specific names when adopted as generic are not to be changed. CANON XL.—The original typography of a name is to be rigidly preserved, unless a typographical error is evident. *Synopsis of the Naiades, or Pearly Fresh-Water Mussels. By Charles Torrey Simpson, Aid, Division of Mollusks. From the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. XXII, Washington, 1900. Jour. Cin. Soc. NaT. Hist., Vou. XX, No. 5. PRINTED FEBRUARY I, 1906. 236 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. Remarks. +. 2 restrict (the semendation: or names to the correction of obvious or known typograph- ical errors involving obscurity.* RECOMMENDATION I.—The rules of Latin orthography are to be adhered to in the construction of scientific names. Remarks. . . . For instance, the names which modern authors have written Azpunemia ... . potocephala, must, according to the laws of etymology, be spelt “Eipycnemia . . , peocephala. Simpson gave four different forms to the name of one of the new genera, described in his “Synopsis,’”’ viz.: Sch7s/o- desma (pp. 506 and 514). Shistodesmus (pp. 803 and 804), Shistodesma (p. 1036), and Schistodesmus (Table of Contents, p. vi of the separate edition of the Synopsis, while the Table of Contents of the whole volume of Proceedings has, on p. vii, Shistodesmus). ‘The spelling of the first syllable as ‘‘ SAz”’ is an impossibility in a Greek word, and the above Recommenda- tion I demands that it be written ‘Schz.’?’ Mr. BRYANT WALKER (in letters) urges, correctly, that the forms used previous to page 803, where the species is first defined, shall be considered as xomina nuda. ‘The name, properly translit- erated, must therefore stand as Schistodesmus. RECOMMENDATION IJI.—In latinizing personal names ° only the termination should be changed, except as in cases provided for under Recommendation IV. Remarks.— ..... . . This recommendation-. .~. . , is particularly to be observed in many names ending in a, the genitive of which should be @. RECOMMENDATION IV.—Names adopted from lan- guages. . . . . containing characters not represented *Such an error involving obscurity, albeit the fault of the author rather than of the typographer, we find in the name of QOuadrula keineriana, dedicated by Lea to: “Mr. L. C. Keiner, the author of /conographie des Coguilles Vivantes.’’ But that author’s name was LL. C. KIENER. A similar error occurs in Lea’s Anodonta jewit- tiana, named in honor of Col. K. Jewett.—Would anybody hesitate to correct such lapsus penne ?—See the following Recommendation II, 2 Orthography of Names of the Natades. 237 in the Roman alphabet. . . . should be rendered by the corresponding Roman letters or combinations of letters. Remarks.—The German 0. . . may be rendered . byes) oes The above canons and recommendations may be supple- mented by the following rule, for certain cases not considered by the authors of the Code: SUPPLEMENTARY RULE.— When the gender of a word used as a generic name can not be decided by any etymolog- ical rule, priority of use shall settle the question. Remarks.—There are two generic names, Lampszlis and Glabaris, to which no linguistic rules can be applied for determining their gender, except so far that neither of them can be a neuter. Nor is there any rule in the A. O. U. Code by which it can be decided whether they are to be considered as masculines or feminines. But Rafinesque, who invented the name Lampsilis,* described under that new genus three species, one of which, Z. ovata, shows that he meant it to be afeminine. William Stimpson, in his “Shells of New Eng- land,’’ used it likewise as feminine, and the various later authors who have treated it as a masculine are in error. J. E. Gray coined the name G/adaris without ever using it coupled to any specific name. The first author who used it in such combinations was Von Ihering. In his ‘ Najaden von S. Paulo,’ 1893, he referred half a score of species to that genus using the name as feminine, and this priority of use must be accepted as decisive. Professor Walter Miller, now of the Tulane University in New Orleans, published, some years ago, a most excellent guide for the compounding of names from Latin and Greek roots,t which ought to be carefully perused by Zoologists and *Monographie des Coquilles Bivalves Fluviatiles de la Riviére Ohio. Bruxelles, 1820. {Scientific names of Latin and Greek Derivation.—Proc. Cal. Ac. Sc., Third Ser, Zoology, Vol. I., No. 3.—San Francisco, 1897, 3 238 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. Botanists. He says (p. 127): ‘‘If the final member of a nomen compositum is a noun, the compound will have the form and gender and inflectional stem of that noun,’’ and further (p. 129): “The gender of the genus name, when it is made a noun, depends not on the termination, but upon the gender of the noun forming the final element of the compound.” This rule is, however, not easily applied in cases where the compound has been so distorted, that it is hard to tell whether to consider the word as a genuine noun or some kind of mal- formed adjective made to pose as a noun. Such examples may be found in Anodonta, Alasmirdonta, Symphynota and Mycetopoda. ‘To treat them as masculines because the final elements of each of them is a masculine noun, it would be futile to attempt. We must leave them as feminines. But the rule is fully applicable to all names terminating in ofszs, which must be feminines (7 os) and those in dema, desma, branchus and rhynchus, all of which are neuter—ro fjpa, 70 deopa a band, (not from 7 déopuy, a bundle), 7a Bpdyxua, gills, (not from 6 Bpayxos, hoarseness), and 70 puyxos. Many of our conchologists have been puzzled how to handle specific names with such terminations as we find in adjectives, and the mistaken idea that all specific names are to be consid- ered as adjectives has led them occasionally to inflect these nouns as adjectives. Unio clava has often been written U7. clavus, whereby the intention of the original author to compare its shape to that of a c/wé was perverted so as to make it look like a mai/. The name U/nzo calceolus, suggesting the resemblance of the shell to a slipper, was changed to A/arga- rita calceola, which suggests nothing at all. While such inflections are obviously wrong, it might appear reasonable, when the noun denotes a living being and the Latin language has two forms for resp., male and female individuals, that the form should be used which corresponds to the gender of the generic name. (Unio corvunculus may thus become Lamfp- silis corvuncula, Buta consistent application of such a rule may lead to a perversion of the significance of the orig- inal name. For example: the European stag-beetle (Zucanus 4 Orthography of Names of the Natiades. 239 cervus) has its name from the striking resemblance of its mandibles to the antlers of a stag (cervus). If that species should have to be transferred to another genus, /., which hap- pens to be a feminine noun, and we call the said stag-beetle F. cerzva, the fitness of the original appellation would be sadly destroyed, as the doe (cerva) has no antlers. The only safe rule for the orthography of a specific name, when the species shall be shifted from one genus to another, is therefore : /eave all nouns unaffected by the gender of the generic name. In many specific names ending on enszs, after a geographical name ending with a vowel, that vowel is elided, while in others it is not, and, in some of the latter, ae is written as a diphthong, in others as two distinct vowels. Professor Miller, whom I have consulted on this question, writes me: ‘‘Before the sufix ensis, elision is imperative, except in the case of y, which is so often a consonant that it is always so treated. The words suggested would accordingly appear as dhamensis, chalcensts, cincinnatensis, demerarensis, monroensis, ohiensis, tampicensis, omensts, topekensts, ujijensis, tavoyensts, etc.” In the following list of corrected names I have used Simp- son’s Synopsis as the basis. The rest of the names adopted, or given, by Simpson may be considered as unassailable under the protection of the code. Fully aware of the danger of doing mischief by any unnecessary change of a published name, I have submitted proofs of this paper to five eminent judges on questions of nomenclature, and, in every instance, I have abided by the verdict of the majority of them—even in the case of Dromus dromas, which, according to Canon XXX, certainly ought to be Dromas dromas. I beg herewith to express my sincere gratitude for the help thus rendered by Drs. Wm. Dau, THEODORE GILL, LEONHARD STEJNEGER and VICTOR STERKI and Mr. BRYANT WALKER, Cincinnatt Society of Natural History. List oF CORRECTED NAMES. Lampsilis (fem.). ventricosa, 4 satura, excavata, binominata, carlosa, ovata, ochracea, splendida, perpasta, clarkiana, multiradiata, brevicula, i brittsi, biangulata, luteola, : rosacea, radiata, i conspicua, hydiana, approxima, contraria, porphyrea, straminea, reeviana, ligamentina, ne gibba, orbiculata, teeniata, picta, punctata, bracteata, venusta, fallaciosa recta, nasuta, ) subrostrata, lienosa, fe unicostata, propria, punicea, obscura, vaughaniana, constricta, apicina, nigerrima, fatua, planicostata, nebulosa, muehlfeldiana, amoena, tenera, sima, planca, subangulata, kirklandiana, perpurpurea, vibex nigrina, suda, villosa, pellucida, papyracea, singleyana, texasensis compressa, parva, haliana, germana, meesta, paula, pulla, alata, ims poulsoni, Orthography of Names of the Naiades. 241 rovirose, Dromus (mas. ). purpurata, dromas, umbrosa, : : Anodonta (fem.). tampicensis, livida, wahlamatensis, explicata, luculenta. alienigena, GILES; metallica, eurvala: leevissima, picta, amphicheena, Gabillotia (fem.). scutulata, euphratica churchilliana. paludosa, argyrata. Unio (mas. ). : platyrhynchoideus, Hyriopsis (fem.). congareus. bialata, myersiana, Alasmidonta (fem.). pinchoniana, dalecolkie vagula, caudiculata. Pleurobema (neu.). Lepidodesma (neu.). maculatum, aliger. holstonense, Nephronaias (fem.). ° bournianum, medellina CU Seg . ; ravenelianum, reticulata — oviforme, phicusiame rs ornatum, eeruginosa, appressum, pusuloss, validum persulcata, iy plicatula, swordianum, tayetelia: subglobatum, vellicata, eee Pies barnesianum, pudicum, Ptychobranchus (neu. ). bigbyense, clintonense, decisum, foremanianum, chattanoogense, trinacrium. . interventum, Cincinnati Society of Natural History. murrayense. curtum, taitianum, perovatum, stabile, troschelianum, irrasum, altum, hartmanianum, instructum, verum, rubellum, furvum, hanleyanum, flavidulum, bulbosum, reclusum, brumbyanum, strodianum, patsaligense, favosum, lenticulare, litum, georgianum, pyriforme, modicum, striatum, gibberum, fascinans rhomboideum, argenteum, a pannosum, connasaugense, breve, i subellipticum, planius, estabrookianum, striatulum, amabile, cicatricosum. Quadrula (fem.). aspera, pustulosa kieneriana, coccinea paupercula, polysticto-scripta, polysticta, microsticta, triclavus, cornuum-lunz cinnamo- mea. Schistodesmus (mas.). Cuneopsis (fem.). capitata. Nodularia (fem.). soboles, eequatoria, caffra, ‘ africana, vaalensis, hygapana. ce Pseudodon (mas.). ellipticus, cambodiensis. Parreysia (fem.). wynegungensis, vulcanus, burmana, gowhattensis, ngesiana, hypsiprymnus, chinensis squamosa. Ptychorhynchus (neu.). pfisteri inspiratum, Orthography of Names of the Naiades. 243 mediastinum, apicellatum, schomburgkianum, murinum (see Errata, Sy- nopsis, p. vill) Ctenodesma (neu.). borneense. Tetraplodon (mas.). quadrilaterus. Castalina (fem.). psammeeca. Diplodon (mas.). rhyaccecus, wagnerianus, sethiops piricicabanus, demerarensis, hyleeus. Spatha (fem.). wahlbergi bourguignati. Monocondylza (fem.). inermis. Glabaris (fem.). patagonica. - felix, crassa, rubicunda, rotunda, membranacea, crispata, philippiana, luteola, schomburgkiana, cylindracea, puelchana, limnceca, lucida, trautwiniana, trapezialis, 4 anserina, exotica, scripta, moretoniana, cygneeiformis. radiata, simpsoniana, sinuosa, glauca, e sinaloensis, umbonata, jewettiana, forbesiana, trigona, elongata, lingulata, mortoniana, longina, leotaudi, tenebricosa, pastasana, schroeteriana, obtusa, liturata, falsa. Pisolitic Barite. 245 ARTICLE IX.—PISOLITIC BARITE. By HERMAN WUESTNER, CURATOR OF MINERALS, CINCINNATI SOCIETY OF NATURAIL, HISTORY, CINCINNATI. Mr. B. P. THRASHER, residing at present at Saratoga, Texas, on October 24th last, sent to the Museum of the Cin- cinnati Society of Natural History, a few pellets of a mineral labeled as follows: ‘‘ From water strata, 1350 feet belcw sur face, at Saratoga, Hardin Co., Texas. Several barrels of them blown out by gas in boring for oul.” The specimens being turned over to me for examination, blowpipe analysis soon proved these pellets to consist of barite, a mineral which has never hitherto been recorded as occurring in pisolitic form. Dr. Josua Lindahl, Director of the Museum, wrote at once to Mr. Thrasher, asking him to send more abundant material for examination. In response, Mr. Thrasher forwarded about four ounces of the same material, declaring this was all that remained, all the rest of it having been left on the ground, whence it had now been washed away beyond recovery. He also supplemented his previous statements by giving the tem- perature of the water that brought up the pellets as 120° F. (about 49° C.), adding that this was the only instance where such material had been obtained at any oil boring in that region. Among the pellets were found a few fragments of a brown fossil of a porous, sponge-like structure and saturated with petroleum. These, too, proved to consist mainly of barite. One of them was sent to Dr. E. O. ULRicH, of the U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C., for possible indentifi- cation. Dr. Ulrich, kindly replying, states that the specimen is ‘‘ a fragment of one of the reef building corals,’’ and that Jour. CIN. Soc. Nat. HIst., VOL. XX, No. 6. PRINTED MARCH 5, 1906 246 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. ‘“ the occurrence of such corals in the Miocene of Texas is well known.’’ He had further consulted his colleague, Dr. T. W. VAUGHAN, who said that it “‘may be an Acroporid coral, but too poorly preserved for definite determination’’ Fig. 1 shows photograph of one of these fragments, enlarged 8 diam. Fic. 1. The pellets in a subsequent chemical analysis (see below) were shown also to contain calcium sulfate and strontium sul- fate in weighable quantities. They have evidently been formed around fragments of the coral as a nucleus, investing such fragments with concentric layers of barium (calcium and strontium ) sulfate. Dr. Ulrich, in his communication, suggests that “the sulfate of barium covering may be a metasomatic replacement of a similar original calcium carbonate investment. Such a replacement may, as in this case, extend to and include the nucleus.”’ As to the structure of the pellets, a transverse section reveals tubes radiating from the nucleus like spokes of a wheel (see Figs. 2-4), imbedded in a series of two or three incrusting concentric shells, surrounded by a series of cortical layers, into which the radiating tubes do not extend, though some radiated structure is discernible in the microscopic section of these cortical layers also. It seems that after the deposition of the inner shells, the process was interrupted, and the outer shells were formed at a later period. The inner layers are of a bluish white tint and quite com- pact; the cortical layers are creamy white and of less compact 2 Fic. 2. MiGHoe Fia. 4. Fig. 2.—Section of a round pellet, x 1o diam. Fig. 3.—Section of a spheroidal pellet, x 10 diam. Fig. 4.—A portion of the same section as in Fig. 3, x 25 diam. Note.—Figs. 2 and 3 are slightly reduced from the size of the original photo-micrographs. The original photo-micrograph used for Fig. 4 was enlarged in the half-tone from 18% to 25 diam. The neg- ative was taken under Obj. 1, Oc. 1 (Winckel). 248 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. structure. When a transverse section of a pellet is immersed for a moment in carmine ink and then washed in water, the cortical layers will be seen to have readily absorbed the ink, while the inner layers are not affected by the staining fluid. Still, upon crushing, even the cortical layers present a consid- erable degree of hardness. The pellets are of a strikingly uniform appearance. With the exception of the smallest ones, on which the incrustation has just commenced, and which therefore still present the irregular form of the nucleus, they are in most cases nearly spherical, rarely spheroidal or discoidal. About one-third, in bulk, of the whole quantity consists of broken pellets, the remaining two-thirds being unbroken, and the total number of these is 456, varying in size, weight and form as follows: 25 pellets, diameter 2.0 to 4.0 mm, form irregular nodular; cortical layer thin, or none; ends of tubuli often plainly marked on the sur- face, but rarely with an open lumen. Weight of the smallest specimen .09 gm. 37 pellets, diameter 4.0 to 4.5 mm, form approximately spherical. Average weight .22 gm. 384 pellets, diameter 4.5 to 5.0 mm, nearly spherical. Average weight .24 gm. 10 pellets, diameter more than 5 mm in one direction, not over 4.5 mim in another direction. These 10 specimens are either prolate or oblate spheroidal in shape. The largest one, an oblate spheroid, hay- ing diameters of 4 and 7.5 mm, weighs .40 gm. The largest fragment of the coral (Fig. 1) measures 8 mm. in width, but only 3 mm in thickness, and weighs .15 gm; another, 6 mm. in width, has a thickness of 3.5mm. ‘The others a still smaller. In order to account for the uniformity of the round pellets and the scarcity of the flat ones, we may suppose that, in tap- ping the underground repository of these peculiar formations, the upward stream of water carried only those pellets which did not exceed a certain maximum weight. As to the flat pieces, whose weight exceeds that limit, it seems that the 4 OF OCiENCES Pisolitic Barite. 249 stream brought to the surface only those few which happened to present their flat surface in a direction perpendicular to that of the upward pressure. The others, tilted, did not pre- sent as large an effective surface, i. e., did not sustain the same lifting force. The manner in which these pellets were tormed is probably a matter of conjecture. In this particular case, it is not likely that these bodies were carried by a subterranean stream, because, as Mr. Thrasher states, no such material has been encountered before in deep borings which have been carried on in neighboring localities. It is quite probable, therefore, that the pellets are the product of a confined locality, and were formed by a subter- ranean spring carrying barite in solution, much in the same manner as the pisolitic aragonite in the Sprudel of Carlsbad, Bohemia, is believed to be formed. The coral fragments result- ing from the breaking up of an underground deposit, were carried up by the spring, and each fragment was kept spinning around while layer after layer of barite was deposited around it, a process which continued until the pellets grew too heavy to be kept in suspension. The radiating tubuli may then be the result of the centri- fugal force by which the oil contents of the nucleus were con- stantly brought to the open pores on the surface, preventing deposition of barite within the pores. Each additional coating encroached, however, on the lumen of each tubule, causing them to grow narrower as their length increased. Whether the coral nucleus and the incrusting shells, orig- inally, consisted of barite, or of calcite subsequently changed by a metasomatic substitution of barite, is a question which it may. not be possible to decide as long as the original deposit of the material remains inaccessible. A similar substitution has taken place in the oolite from Centre County, Pa., where silica has taken the place of calcium carbonate. Dr. S. WALDBOTT, of the Ohio Mechanics Institute, has most kindly made a quantitative analysis of the materials herein described, and submits the following results : 250 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. Shell | Nucleus | Coral 8461 4084 0617 | Volatile Hydrocarbons......... 17% 98% | 1.62% WVolatilevat red heatven.. -2e 3248) 220 3.08 Ba SOs ere sas ccake saree eae 92.78 92.59 | 83.4 aS Ole srnteiade siereiremae seeker te 3.31 2.79 | undetermined Sr SO a aati check 1.36 10473} none Undetermined (iron, unburned : | WrdowWlabinwecesacos use sono 1.60 2.40 100.00% | 100.009 | *After removing nuclei from several broken pellets. +Taken out of the same broken pellets. Specific gravity of pellets, 3.99. In order to ascertain the geological age of the stratum whence the pellets were ejected, Dr. Lindahl secured, through the courtesy of Mr. Thrasher, a copy of the boring log, which contained the following note: ‘1322 to 1375 feet : Oil, sand, . .. . . Formations (pellets) came from 1350 feet. Water temperature 120°.” Comparing the log with data published in U. S. G. S., Bulletin No. 212 (‘Oil Fields of the Texas-Louisana Gulf Coastal Plain. By Dr. C. W. Hayes and William Kennedy), Dr. Lindahl came to the conclusion that the strata at the above depth might reasonably be guessed to belong to the lowest Neocene beds, “3 d”’ of the section on page 20 of the said Bulletin, and Dr. Hayes, to whom the log was submitted, confirmed the conjecture in the following words: ‘‘This is as neat as any one else could guess.—C. W. H.” The Bulletin states that sands of those beds “‘ carry fossils of Miocene age.” As remarked above, Drs. Ulrich and Vaughan considered the brown particles as fragments of a Miocene coral. For the photo-micrographs, here reproduced in half-tone (Figs. 2-4), I am greatly indebted to Drs. M. L. HEIDINGS- FEI.D and A. J. MARKLEY, of Cincinnati. I also wish to express my gratitude to Dr. JosuA LINDAHL, Director of the Museum of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, for his kind and unselfish co-operation in connection with the subject herein presented. Coleoptera of the Cincinnati Region. 251 ARTICLE X.—ECOLOGICAL NOTES ON SOME COLEOP- TERA OF THE CINCINNATI REGION, INCLUDING SEVEN NEW SPECIES. By CHARLES Dury (CINCINNATI). HAMOTUS BATRISIOIDES Lec. I have taken a number of this curious species by sifting the decayed and honeycombed interior of a standing dead tree. Both males and females were taken. I notice that the anten- nal club of female is smaller than that of the male. April 2 to May 2, Cincinnati, Ohio. HOMGUSA EXPANSA Lec. This flat little species was sifted from a nest of pale ants, Lastus claviger, May 7. SCOPAOPSIS DURYI Casey. Sifted from the debris of a patch of withered fungus, 4gar7- cin@; three specimens. See Revision of American Peederini. Casey. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 1905, vol. xv., No. 2, p. 216. PTINIDIUM LINEATUM Lec. This very minute species lives under the decaying bark of the “Honey Locust,” in moist places. I have also sifted it from the debris at the base of these trees. May 4. ANAMORPHUS PUSILLUS Zimme. One specimen, July 7, taken feeding on fungus on beech log in company with Aymébus minor, which species it resem- bles in an astonishing manner. COLYPHUS MELANOPTERUS MN. sp. Jet black, shining, except the thorax, which is rose pink, and the mouth and front, which are pale testaceous. Head Jour. CIN. Soc. Nat. Hist. VOL. XX, No. 7. PRINTED MARCH 8, 1906 1 252 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. with scattered, fine punctures. Front with a broad crescentic impression, interrupted at middle. Eyes large, prominent. Antenne eleven-jointed, without club, the joints gradually becoming wider to the tenth. Thorax with a broad black furcate mark extending from base to apex. Elytra coarsely cribrate and but little wider than thorax; widest about the middle, with prominent humeri. Body sparsely covered with erect black hairs. This species comes nearest Colyphus fur- catus Sch., but is longer, much less hairy, the elytra are more shining and immaculate jet black. 8 mm. Cincinnati, Ohio. As defined by Mr. Gorham in Biologia, vol. iii., p. 2, this spe- cies belongs in his ‘‘Sec. A.’’ I took one specimen while sweeping low vegetation in river bottom, July 5, 1905. I was very much surprised to see a representative of this genus so far north as Cincinnati. PTILINUS RUFICORNIS Say. May 20, 1905, I saw a maple stump that had a large flat sliver sticking up on one side. Into this a number of this species were cutting round holes. Many of them were half buried, leaving the posterior end sticking out of thehole. All were females. Until late in June they were at work here, and also on the wood of a split beech tree. I never take males in such a situation, but get them by beating dead branches. The male is much rarer than the female. ODONTOSPHINDUS DENTICOLLIS Lec. June 11, 1905, I took this species eating a dark brown powdery fungus that was growing on a poplar-log. Sphindus americanus Lec lives in same fungus. Americanus is abund- ant, denticollis is rare, and Lurysphindus hirtus Lec. is very rare here. LACHNOSTERNA VEHEMENS /forn. Twenty-two males of this species were taken flying about electriclights. Superficially it resembles Z. fusca very closely, but the curved and hooked inner spur of hind tibia and the broad angulation of hind femur distinguish it. The types 9 a Coleoptera of the Cincinnati Region. 253 were from Kansas. It is a very abundant species here, but no females have yet been taken. CRIOCERIS ASPARAGI L772. The first specimen I have seen from Cincinnati of this intro- duced species was taken July 7, 1905, on Walnut Hills, by Miss Anette Braun. NEOBROTICA (GALERUCA) DORSATA Say. In a note by me in Ent. News for February, 1904, p. 53, I mention the occurrence of this beautiful Chrysomelid. Further search shows the thing to be abundant, and that its plant is perhapsthe ‘‘Spiderwort”’ 7vadescantia Virginica. I failed to find the larvee, but the stems of the plant were, many of them, eaten out by some large larvee. I could not find any evidence that they had eaten the roots, as does Diabrotica on other plants. Wherever I found the ‘‘Spiderwort,” there I found the beetles. Ina large patch of the plant, as late as July 22, 1905, I found them common, though very wild. I netted forty-three; all were females, the males being entirely gone at this date. The curiously modified male antenne sug- gest that the species is a Neobrotica. EPITRIX HUMERALIS N. Sp. About the size and-proportions of Apfitrix fuscula Crotch, but with coarser punctures on elytra. Ante-basal impression well marked. Color rufous with a feebly defined piceous cloud on disk of elytra. ‘The humeral umbones with a pale spot, not sharply defined. Legs rufotestaceous. Length 2.5 mm. ‘Three specimens from Cincinnati, O., one from Indiana and one from Kansas (Mr. Knaus). CREPIDODERA ASCULI Nn. Sp. Allied to Crepidodera rufipes, but averages more slender, color of adult (including thorax) always dark piceous green, shining. Legs pale as invufipes. Immature specimens paler, but always showing the green reflections. Thorax more dis- tinctly punctured than rufipes. Length3.5mm. Occurs >) »” 254 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. abundantly on the “ Buckeye,’ “sculus glabra, Crepidodera rufipes occurs on the common locust Robinia pseudacacia. PHYLLOTRETA LINDAHLI Nn. Sp. Elongate oval, convex, black, shining. Thorax wider than long, minutely alutaceus. Punctures fine, becoming coarser towards base. Elytra, wider at base than thorax, with humeri rounded. Disk coarsely punctured, with a faint strial arrange- ment. Tibia, tarsiand aniennze (except the last four joints of antennze, which are piceous) pale. Male characters. Last ventral segment rounded at tip with a deep rounded depression, which extends forward in triangular shape through the entire length of the penultimate segment. In bottom of the depression is a groove extending its length. There are two minute tubercles at bottom of depression near apex of last segment. - Female characters. Last ventral segment with a shallow fovea near tip. Oblit-- erated in one specimen. Four specimens 2.6 mm. Cincinnati, Ohio, May 30. This species belongs in series ‘‘B.’’ Phyllotreta of Horn’s paper on Halticini, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xvi, and comes nearest lewisit. Dedicated to that industrious: naturalist, Dr. Josua Lindahl. EUSTROPHUS BRUNNEIMARGINATUS N. Sp. Oval, convex, moderately attenuate posteriorly. Body above black, sparsely pubescent. Head rufous, coarsely punctured. Hyes very narrowly separated. Thorax finely punctured, and with a broad brown marginal band, extending around the front from one hind angle tothe other. This band is rather densely pubescent with fulvous hairs. Elytra striato- punctate, with a similar brown band extending around margin from one humerus to the other. Beneath, including legs, rufous, rather fnely punctured. The punctures of mesoster- num and ventral segments being ocarser than those of pro- 4 Coleoptera of the Cincinnati Region. 255 notum. ‘The sculpture is rather coarser than in Lustrophus bicolor. Prosternum is not prolonged behind coxze. Posterior tibize have transverse ridges, as in &. dzcolor. As compared with dzcolor this species is smaller, broader for its length, less shining, much less attenuate behind, less distinctly striate, with finer punctures in striz, and with the fulvous border, Antenne as in bicolor. Two specimens, Kentucky, near Cincinnati, Ohio, 4.8 mm. and 3.7 mm. long. MORDELLISTENA DELICATULA Nl. Sp. Elongate, very slender, piceous in color, with front of head, mouth parts, front and middle legs and antennz pale rufotestaceous. ‘The elytra thickly covered with rather coarse, sage green pubescence. Tibia with two ridges, anterior one extending across the outer face of the tibia. First tarsal joint with three, second with two oblique ridges. Length 3.5 mm. Seven specimens, Cincinnati, Ohio. The most slender species I have seen. The bright shining sage green pubescence fades out to silvery in old specimens. From the description I had always thought this was sp/endens Smith. But after seeing some of that species collected at Cameron, La., by Prof. Hine, and, comparing with the types in national museum, I see it is quite different. ACROSCHISMUS Acroschismus is a generic name proposed by Mr. W. D. Pierce for some new species of the family Sty/opide, specimens of which I have bred here from parasitized wasps. I have taken three distinct species, for which Mr. Pierce proposes the names in following list (Art. XI.). Descriptions will be given in a monographic paper shortly to be issued by him. CATASPASTUS CONSPERSUS Lec. Occurred by hundreds on ‘‘ Prickly Ash’”’ (Xanthoxylum) May 5. CANISTES SCHUSTERI Csy. I took two of this very rare species July 12, 1905. They were standing high up on their clumsy legs in a patch of dark 5 256 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. colored fungus which was growing on the underside of a beech log in thick woods. They were gnawing at the fungus. IDIOSTETHUS SUBCALVUS Lec. Occurs in great numbers in the flowers of ydrophyllum appendiculatum. May. I have been unable to find its larve. PSOMUS POLITUS Csy. Occurs commonly on ash sprouts (/raxinus americana) June 1 to 25, Coleoptera of the Cincinnati Region. 257 ARTICLE XI.—ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF CINCINNATI COLEOPTERA. By CHARLES DurRY. In Article V. of this volume* I have enumerated 2,031 spe- cies of Coleoptera observed near Cincinnati. In the following Supplementary List 209 species are given, making a total of 2,240 species. I have yet more than fifty unidentified species. I think 2,500 or more species will eventually be found here. CICINDELIDA. Cicindela duodecimguttata De7. CARABIDAR. Cychrus nitidicollis Chev. Scarites substriatus Ha/d. Dyschirius globulosus Say. Aspidoglossa subangulata Chd. Bembidium guexi Chd. postfasciatum Ham. dentellum 7hunbd. dilatatum Lec. Tachys corruscus Lec. Pterostichus purpuratus Lec. Stolonis ulkei Horn. Badister flavipes Lec. Apristus subsuleatus De. Chlzenius laticollis Say. solitarius Say. Gynandropus hylacis Say. Selenophorus pedicularis De7. Harpalus autumnalis Say. Acupalpus'carus Lec. SILPHID AS. Aglyptus levis Lec. HYDROPHILID A. Cercyon navicularis Zzmm. ***A revised list of Coleoptera observed near Cincinnati, O.’’—This Journal. Vol, 2ex> Now 3, Art.5V. flavipes Fad. analis Payk. SCYDMANID&. Eutheia americana Casey. PSELAPHIDA. Hamotus batrisioides Lec. Decarthron abnorme Lec. exsectum Arend. Batrisus virginie Casey. Euplectus congener Casey. STAPHYLINIDA. Falagria quadriceps Lec. Xenodusa cava Lec. Homceusa expausa Lec. Oxypoda opacula Fauv. Myllzena infuscata Avaazz. Bolitochara picta Fauv. Heterothops pusio Lec. Philonthus asper Horn. quadricollis Horn. microphthalmus //orn. sordidus Grav. inquietus Zrich. serpentinus Horn. micans Grav. Xautholinus gularis Lec. ~J 258 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. Lathrobium pallidulum Lec. Leptolinus rubripennis Lec. Gastrolobium carolinum £7. Hesperobium sellatum Lec. cribratum Lec. Scopeeopsis duryi Casey. Stilicus opaculus Lec. Sciocharella n. sp. near delicatula Sciocharis carolinenis Csy. Leptogenius brevicornis Csy. Sunius brevipennis Auwct. prolixus £7. discopunctatus Say. Tachinus nitiduloides Horn. repandus Hforn. fimbriatus Grav. Tachyporus nanus £7. elegans Horn. Conosoma knoxii Lec. pubescens Payk. Boletobius axilaris Grav. queesitor Horn. Mycetoporus lucidulus Lec. lepidus £7. Oxytelus exiguus £7. Lispinus linearis £7. Nototaphra lauta Casey. Atheta (near sordida /M/e/sh.) Anthobium convexum /auv. Eleusis canadensis. TRICHOPTERYGIDAS. Ptinidium evanescens Marsh. lineatum Lec. Ptinellodes lecontei J/a/th. SCAPHIDIID. Beeocera apicalis Lec. abdominalis Csy. PHALACRIDAS. Severalunidentified species CORYLOPHIDA. Sacium misellum Zéc. Corylophodes marginicollis Lec. Orthoperus micros Casey. COCCINELLIDA. * Hyperaspis punctatus MWe/sh. ENDOMYCHIDA:. Symbiotes pygmzus Gohr. sp. Anamorphus pusillus Z7mm. EROTYLIDA®. Languria uhleri Horn. Acropteroxys lecontei C7. COLYDIIDA. Synchita laticollis Lec. CRYPTOPHAGID. Henoticus serratus Gy//. Cryptophagus acutangulus Gy//. n. sp. Czenoscelis obscura Casey. MYCETOPHAGID&. Mycetophagus subdepressus Csy. DERMESTID#. Cryptorhopalum triste Lec. NITIDULIDAS. Brachypterus urtice Fad, Cercus pennatus JZurr. Carpophilus melanopterus Zr. Epurea planulata £7. LATHRIDIUD A. Holoparamecus caularum Auéé, Corticaria ferruginea J/arsh. elongata Gy//. Cartodere costulata Rez?. Melanophthalma longipennis Lec. DASCYLLIDA. Eucinetus strigosus Lec. ELATERIDA. Microrrhagus imperfectus Lec. 8 Coleoptera of the Cincinnati Region. Adelothyreus dejeani Bonz. Nematodes collaris Bonv. Hylochares nigricornis Say. Esthesopus claricollis Say. Cryptohypnus choris Say. melsheimeri Hor. cucullatus Horn. Hypuoides striatulus Horn. Elater collaris Say. pusio Germ. insignis Lec. Drasterius amabilis Lec. Agriotes insanus Cazd. Dolopius lateralis Esch. Limonius plebejus Say. nl. Sp. Athous cucullatus Zsch. Corymbites signaticollis MWe/sh. THROSCID AS. Alonothroscus calocerus on. BUPRESTIDA. Anthaxia flavimana Gory. Agrilus n. sp. MALACHIDA. Pseudebeeus apicalis Say. Attalus melanopterus 7,7. CLERIDAS. Hydnocera difficilis Lec. Chariessa onusta Say. Colyphus melanopterus Dury. PTINIDAS. Ptinus falli Pzc. Oligomerus obtusus Lec. Trichodesma klagesi Fad/. Hadrobregmus pusillus Fa//. Xyletinus harrisi Fa//. Lasioderma semirufum Fad/, Petalium seriatum Fa//. Eupactus obsoletus /a//. atorama nigritulum Lec. vexatum Fad/, gracile Fa//. confusum /Fa//. dichroum Fad/. Dorcatoma dresdensis ///s/. Protheca hispida Lec. puberula Lec. Eutylistis intermedius Lec. incomptus Lec. Czenocara bicolor Germ. Ptilinus lobatus Csy. BOSTRICHIDA. Lichenophanes armiger Lec. angustus Csy. Dinoderus porcatus Lec. SPHINDIDA:. Eurysphindus hirtus Lec. SCARABAIDAS. Ateenius lecontei H/ar. Hoplia trifasciata Say. Lachnosterna marginalis Lec. vehemens Horn. balia Say. CERAMBYCID4Z5. Romaleum rufulum Fa/d. Neoclytus capreea Say. Cacoplia pullata Ha/d. CHRYSOMELID&. Crioceris asparagi Lizn. Exema conspersa Mann. Griburius larvatus Vewm. 259 Cryptocephalus leucomelas Sz/fr. Metachromia pallida Say. Neobrotica dorsata Say. Galeruca pomone Scop. Phzedromus paradoxus J/e/sh. Crepidodera nitens Horn. esculi Dury. Glyptina cyanipennis Crotch. Phyllotreta lindahli Dury. Chzetocnema pulicaria C7. Cassida nigripes Oliv. TENEBRIONIDS. Merinus levis Oliv. 9 260 Uloma mentalis Horz. Lyphia ficicola u/s. Arhenoplites viridipennis adr. CISTELIDA. Hymenorus discretus Csy. Mycetochara rufipes Lec. MELANDRYIDA. Eustrophus confinis Lec. brunneimarginatus Dury. Hallomenus debilis Lec. ANTHICID As. Xylophilus bruneipennis Lec. melsheimeri Lec. Anthicus currax Champ. STYLOPID. Acroschismus bowditchi Perce. duryi Pierce. lugubris Prerce. 10 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. RHYNCHITIDA. Rhynchites zratus Say. CURCULIONID. Exomias pellucidus Boh. Apion segnipes Say. nigrum /Zész. pennusylvanicum Boh, rostrum Say Anthonomus gularis Lec. elongatus Lec. Piazorhinus pictus Lec. Ceutorhynchus sericans Lec. Cataspastus conspersus Lec. Lymuobaris bracata Csy. concurrens Csy. Plesiobaris disjuncta Csy. CALANDRID&. Pentarthrinus piceus Csy. SCOLYTID 4. Scolytus fagi Walsh. INDEX. Acroschismus bowditchi, A. duryi, A. lugubris, 255. AIKEN, Prof. Walter H.: Check List of the Plants of Hamilton County, including species in cultivation, 199-230. Idem: List of Medicinal Plants in the vicinity of Cincinnati, with notes as to the parts used, _ 231-234. Amplexopora setosa Beds, 76. Anametis, 198. Anamorphus pusillus, 251. A. O. U. Code of nomenclature, ex- . tracts from, 235-237. Aspidophora newberryi Beds, 69. Atenius rugiceps MN. Sp., 154, fig. Barite, Pisolitic, 245. BASSLER, R. S., 62, 87, 100, 105. Batostoma jamesi Beds, 72. Bdellostoma dombeyi, Vascular system of, 13-48, Pl. I-III. Bellevue Beds, 82, 98. Bibliography of the Flora of Cin- cinnati, 200. Bibliography of the Geology of Cincinnati, 98, Blood-vascular system of 4de//os- toma, comparative anatomy of, 43- Blue Limestone, report on by Locke, 52. Botanical Bibliography of Cincin- nati region, 200, ‘Canistes schusteri, 255. Cataspastus conspersus, 255. Ceruchus piceus, 198. Chiloporella nicholsoni Beds, 83. a ie anticline (Newberry), 56. Cincinnati Coleoptera, 107, 264. 457 sf flora, 199. Geology of, 4g, 51. ~ Group, term proposed by Meek & Worthen, 54. Cincinnati Period, 64, 96. Topography of, 49, I99. ss Uplift (Orton), 56. Cliff Limestone, report on by Locke, 52. Climate of Hamilton County, Ohio, 199. Coleoptera of Cincinnati, Ecolog- ical notes of, 251-256. Coleoptera of Cincinnati,* Revised List, 107-198 and 257-260. Cols near Cincinnati, map of, 51. Colyphus furcatus, 252. Colyphus melanopterus, 1. sp., 251. Corryville Beds, 83, 98. Crepidodera esculi, n. Sp., 253. Crepidodera rufipes, 253. Crioceris asparagi, 253. Cumberland Sandstone, correlated with the Richmond, 8g. Dekayia aspera Beds, 78. Dekayella ulrichi Beds, 73. Dryotribus mimeticus, 198. DuRyY, CHARLES: Revised List of Coleoptera near Cincinnati, with notes on localities, Bibliograph- ical references and description of five new species, 107-198. Idem: Ecological notes on Cole- optera incl. six new species, 251-256. *For Coleoptera not enumerated in this Index, see the special Index, pp. 191-196 Additions and Corrections on pp. 197-198, and Supplementary List, pp. 257-260. 1 262 Idem: Additions to List of Cole- optera, 257-260. Eden shales, 58. Electric lobes of Torpedo occi- dentalis, 1-12. Pl. I. Epitrix fuscula, 253. Epitrix humeralts, n. Sp., 253. Eustrophus bicolor, 255. Eustrophus brunneimarginatus, n. Sp., 254. Fairmount Beds, 78, 98. Flora of Cincinnati, 199-234. FowKE, GERHARD, preglacial drainage investigations, 5I. Ganglion cells of white rat, 6. Geology of Cincinnati, 49. HALL, PROF. JAMES, earliest cor- relation of Cincinnati rocks, 53. Hamilton County, Ohio, Floraand physical geography of, 199-234. Hamiotus batrisioides, 251. HATAI, DR. SHINKISHI: Observa- tions on the efferent neurones in the electric lobes of Zorpedo occidentalis, 1-12, Pl. I. HAYES, Dr. C. W., on age of piso- litic barite, 250. HEIDINGSFELD, Dr. M. L., photo- micrographs, 250. Hill Quarry Beds, 59. Homoeusa expansa, 251. Homotrypa bassleri Beds, 86. Homotrypa bassleri Nick, n. Sp., description of, 103, figs. Hudson River (Slate) group, named by Dr. Mather, 53. Hypophleus rugosus,M. Sp., 171, fig. Idiostethus (Zygobaris) subcal- vus, 186, 256. JacKsON, DR. C. M.: Vascular sys- tem of Bdellostoma dombeyt, 13-48, Pl. I-III. JAMES, PROF. JOSEPH: Geology of Cincinnati, 50, 58. Lachnosterna fusca, 252. Cincinnati Society of Natural History. Lachnosterna vehemens, 252. Lasioderma serricorne, 198. Lasius claviger, 251. Lebanon Beds, 60. LINDAHL, DR. Josua: Orthogra- phy ofthe Names of the Vazades, 235-243. Localities of exposures of strata in Cincinnati, 96 and map. LOCKE, DR. JOHN: Report on Blue and Cliff Limestones, 52. Lorraine Group, 59, 64, 74, 97. Losantiville, derivation of name, 49. Lyphia ficicola, 198. MARKLEY, Dr. A. J., photo-micro- graphs, 250. MATHER, DR. W. W., Hudson River Group named by, 53. MEEK and WORTHEN, proposed . the term “Cincinnati Group,” 54- MILLER, PROF. WALTER, on ques- tions of nomenclature, 237-239. Monticulipora molesta Beds, 82. Mordellistena smithi, n. Sp., 177, fig. Mordellistena delicatula, n. sp., 255- Merdcligetene splendens, 255. Mordellistena sexnotata, N. sp., 176, fig. Mt. Auburn Beds, 85, 98. Mt. Hope Beds, 76, 97. Mycetochara horui, n. sp., 172, fig. Naiades, nomenclature of, 235. Neobrotica dorsata, 253. Neurones in 7orpedo, 1, 6. NEWBERRY, DR. J. S., on the Cin- cinnati anticline, 56. NICKLES, JOHN M.: Description of a new Bryozoan, Homotrypa bassleri, 1. SP., 103, figs. Idem: The Geology of Cincinnati, 49-102, map. Index. 263 Nomenclature, Code of, 235. Odontosphindus denticollis, 252. ORTON, PROF. E., on the Cincin- nati uplift, 56. Phyllotreta lewisii, 254. Phyllotreta lindahli,n.sp., 254. Pisolitic barite, 245. ; Platystrophia lynx Beds, 85. Pleurophorus ventralis Horn, 154, fig. Point Pleasant Beds, 56, 60. Preglacial drainage of south west- ern Ohio, 51. Psomus politus, 256. Ptilinus ruficornis, 252. Ptinidium lineatum, 251. Rat, white, ganglion cells of, 6. Richmond Group, 60, 64, 88. River Quarry Beds, 56. RUEDEMAN, RUDOLF, on the Hud- son River group, 56. Scopeopsis duryi, 251. Stmpson’s (C. T.) Synopsis of the Naiades, Errors of nomenclature in, 235. THRASHER, B. P., sent pisolitic barite, 245. Torpedo occidentalis, Nevrones in electric lobes of, 1-12, Pl. I. Trenton Period, 60, 96. ULRICH, Dr. E. O., 55, 57, 62, 87, 8g, 100, I05, 245. Utica group, 58, 64, 66, 96. VANUXEM, LARDNER, correlation of Ohio and New York rocks, 53. Vascular system of Adellostoma, 13, figs. VAUGHAN, Dr. T. W., acroporid coral from Texas, 246. WaLcoTt, CH. D., defining the Hudson Terrane, 55. WALDBOTT, DR. S., analysis of pisolitic barite, 249, 250. WALKER, BRYANT, quoted on a question of nomenclature, 236. Warren Beds, 86, 98. WUESTNER, HERMAN: Barite, 245-250. (Zygobaris) Idiostethus subcalvus, plas Pisolitic esa ae ae sor el ak ry nett bs 3 > PI ones MIKA Prishs ' ive a2 ee Vol. XX, No. J. THE JOURNAL OF THE Cincinnati Society of Natural History «Published October J, 1901.... CONTAINS: Article IL—S. HATAI: Observations on the Efferent Neurones in the Electric Lobes of Torpedo Occidentalis. Article Il.—C. M. JACKSON: An Investigation of the Vascular System of _Bdellostoma Dombeyi. we i ih ff ex Sr Ses Vie Vol. XX. No, 2. THE JOURNAL OF THE Cincinnati Society of Natural History ... Published January 10, 1902 ... CONTAINS: Article IIL.—J. M. NICKLES: The Geology of Cincinnati. Article IV.—J. M. NICKLES: Description of a New Bryozoan, “Homotrypa Bassleri” n. sp., from the Warren Beds of the Lorraine Group. fo Vol. XX. No. 3. THE JOURNAL OF THE Cincinnati Society of Natural History «+. Published November 25, 1902... Art. V.—CuHaries Dury: A revised list of the Coleoptera observed near Cincinnati, Ohio, with notes on localities, Bibliographical references and description of six new species. a <2 SeWe KK SS . No: 4. THE JOURNAL ‘OF THE eee ak Society of Natural History ooee -Published May 5; 1904. 2090 CONTAINS: - Atticle VL— WALTER H. AIKEN: Check List of the Plants of Ham- ‘ ‘ilton County, Ohio, exclusive of the Lower Cryptogams. Also including many _extralimital species in cultivation. 3 Article VIL— WALTER H. AIKEN: List of Medicinal Plants, wild, or cultivated, growing in the vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio, with notes as to the parts used for Medicinal purposes. - 4 Re \ sok drene y x Publishing Committee. JosuA LiInDAHL, -adztor. D. L. JAMEs, C.G. LLoyD, Cu. Dury. Publishing Committee. Josua LINDAHL, Fditor. D. L. JAMES, C. G. LLoyp, CH. Dury. niall Vol. XX, No."2. @> THE JOURNAL OF THE Cincinnati Society of Natural History «. Published February J, 1906... CONTAINS : Article VIII.—JOSUA LINDAHL: Orthography of the Names of the Naiades. oh Zs) = ag ee 6) bs Vol. XX. No. 6. THE JOURNAL | OF THE Cincinnati Society of Natural History «ee Published March 5, 1906... CONTAINS: : Article IX.—HERMAN WUESTNER: Pisolitic Barite. Vol. XX. ; 3 No, 7. THE JOURNAL OF THE Cincinnati Society of Natural History ... Published March 8, 1906 ..: CONTAINS : : Article X.—ECOLOGICAL NOTES ON SOME COLEOPTERA OF THE CINCINNATI REGION, INCLUDING SEVEN NEW SPECIES.—By CHARLES DURY, CINCINNATI, Art cle XI.— ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF CINCINNATI COLEOPTERA.— By CHARLES DURY, CINCINNATI. ’ Publishing Committee. Josua LINDAHL, £dfor. D. L. JAMES, C. G. LLoyp, CH. Dury. Publishing Committee. Josua LINDAHL, Editor. D. L. JAMEs, CG Trev, Cu. Dury. Publishing Committee. Josua LINDAHL, Editor. D. L. JAMEs, C.°-G=_LLoyvp,; “CH. 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