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of the Orthoptera of New Mexico" in Proceedings of the 

 Davenport Academy of Sciences, volume IX. 



The total number of his writings on North American Or- 

 thoptera is 131, and his work was chiefly upon the North 

 American forms of the order, but over one hundred exotic spe- 

 cies also were described by him. 



The most noteworthy of these North American papers were 

 the following: 



Entomological Notes, which ran in the Proceedings of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History, volumes XI to XIX, 

 (1868-78) and treated of Lepidoptera as well as Orthoptera. 



A Century of Orthoptera, Decades I-X, in the same Pro- 

 ceedings, volumes XII-XX, (1868-79). Some of these ap- 

 peared also as portions of the Entomological Notes series. 



Catalogue of the Orthoptera of North America described 

 previous to 1867. Washington, 1868. 



Various papers based on the collections made by Packard, 

 Hayden, Wheeler and others in the government survey and 

 expedition work of the '6o's and '70*5. 



Guide to the Genera and Classification of the North Ameri- 

 can Orthoptera found North of Mexico. Cambridge, 1897. 



Revision of the Orthopteran Group Melanopli, Wash., 

 1897. 



Catalogue of the Described Orthoptera of the United States 

 and Canada. Davenport, 1900. 



Alphabetical Index to North American Orthoptera describ- 

 ed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Boston, 1901. 



His work on the Orthoptera may be summed up by say- 

 ing that it was the basis on which the present classification of 

 North American Orthoptera was developed. 



J. A. G. R. 



Dr. Scudder began writing on the diurnal lepidoptera about 

 fifty years ago, and contributed very largely to the literature 

 of the subject. His papers are to be found in most of the 



