INTRODUCTION. 



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The following table of the principal families of Orthoptera has been temporarily arranged 

 for the use of young Entomologists who wish to classify their collections. The nam.: of the 

 family to which each insei I belongs in Scudder's Catalogue, &c.will be placed (in italics) as the end 

 .if the list of names and synonyms appended to each plate 



Srylljdes Scudder I Ex. Acanthus, or flower cricket. Gryllus, com- 



AcUhdae {Leach)oJ Westw i. I mon cricket, and Gryllotalpa or mole cricket. 



Locustariae Scudd l ph ane roptera, Phylloptera, Microcentrum and Cyr 



Gryllidae.. [Leach.) Westw I top hyllus. (Katydids.) Xyphidium; Orcheli 



mum, &c.\ slender meadow grasshoppers or 

 Katydids, &c . (Ceuthophilus I large wingless 

 cricket it grasshopper of Utah, ami Hadense 

 cus, cave wingless cricket. 



Division A 



True 

 Orthoptera. 



Acrydii Scudd. I Acridium, Caloptenus, ^Edipoda, Stenobothrus,&c.; 



Locustulai I Leaeh i Westw. | ww grass hoppers ; ami Tettix, grouse 1." usts 



Phasmida. Scudd. '! 

 Phasmidae. Westw I 



Spectres. Walking sticks. 



Mantides. Scudd. 1 Rear horses or soothsayers. 

 Manhaai Westw \ 



Blattariae. Scudd, 



Blattidae. (Stephens ) Westw. 



Cockroaches. 



Forficulariae Scudd. 

 Forfieulidae (Stephens 



Westw. 



Earwigs. 



I h vision B. 



False 

 i Orthoptera 



Fringed I Thripidae Thrips and allies, 



wings. \ ' ' 



Poduridae Spring ami bri 



formerly order Thysanoptera oj West 

 wood. 



| {..run rly o rd< r Th y ■" n n i • < 



Stle tails l',i, mi ,n.,l IiiIi-Iii in X.iini/i 



Wingless 

 i Irthoptera. 



I tera. Packard 



Mallophaga. 



. , [ in i.nl.i Orthoptera by Gerstaecker, &e. 



'i liui jil, i. , ,1 in Hemiptera by Packard. 



The False Orthoptera have been put after tin- Tun- I Irthoptera, so that they may either be 

 left >.iit altogether, or removed into other 'Tilers if found desirable. 



