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A LIST OF COLEOPTERA COLLECTED IN LOUISIANA, ON OR SOUTH OF PARALLEL 30°

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. H. T. Townsend
Affiliation:
Constantine, Mich.

Extract

The following species were collected, from 29th March to 21st June, 1884, along the thirtieth parallel in two neighborhoods, New Orleans and environs, and a district on Bayou la Fourche extending from a little above Napoleonville a few miles south along the bayou. The latter is in Assumption Parish, and at the time of my visit was partially overflowed from the great crevasse of March, 1884. Though many of the species here given are well known to occur in the South Louisiana fauna, I give them all just as I collected them, with the view of noting their relative abundance or rarity, dates of occurrence, localities, etc., all of which together may contribute to make our knowledge of the fauna more complete. But it must be remembered that this is merely a record of how the species occurred to me during my stay, in which I collected only a small part of what might have been taken, could I have given my entire attention thereto. Nearly all those of the N. O. neighborhood were taken between the city and Lake Pontchartrain.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1885

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References

* There are dummy roads running through the swamp from New Orleans to Milnburg, Spanish Fort and West End, three resorts on Lake Pontchartrain.

Where no locality is given, the species will be understood to have been taken both in vicinity of New Orleans and on Bayou la Fourche.

Where no date is given, unless otherwise stated, the species was more or less common during the time of my stay.