THE CANADIAN ENTOMOOGIST. 



and then to make the slightest and most trivial character serve as a basis 

 for a new species, even when it is known that the character is elsewhere 

 in the genus a known variable one. 



In my Satyrus paper I termed " forms " what I here term '• races." 

 The latter is more expressive and more in accordance with the nomen- 

 clature in other departments of zoology. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NORTH TRANS-CONTINENTAL 



SURVEY. 



BY LAWRENCE BRUNER, WEgX POINT, NEBRASKA. 



ORTHOPTERA. 



Herewith is presented for publication a partial list of the Orthoptera 

 collected by Dr. H. A. Hagen and Samuel Henshaw during the summer 

 of 1S82, along the line of the Northern Pacific Railway. The collection, 

 although not an extensive one, contains some new forms, as well as several 

 interesting varieties of well known species. The collection is also of much 

 interest in extending the range of quite a number of species heretofore 

 recorded as occurring only on the eastern slope of the continental divide, 

 or at the extreme eastern edge of the great interior basin, to the western 

 slope. 



Taken as a whole, this collection of Orthoptera is very comiDlete for 

 the regions in which it was made, and shows careful work both in its 

 formation and preservation. It is to be regretted, however, that so few 

 specimens of some of the more interesting forms were taken, a feature 

 which, no doubt, might have been remedied to some extent had their value 

 been known at the proper time. 



There still remain a few species which are to be more carefully studied 

 and compared before they can be properly placed. These, when I have 

 the time to do so, will be worked up, and, in connection with the doubtful 

 ones here enumerated, will form the subject for a future paper, when, it is 

 hoped, I will be able to add such points as have been carelessly over- 

 looked here. 



