70 KANSAS UNIVERSITY SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



LIST OF ORTHOPTEKA AND EUPLEXOPTERA. 



Previous explanations in regard to the circumstances un- 

 der which my collecting was done hold true in respect to the 

 insects of the above-named orders, whose names and records 

 are here presented. The arrangement used follows that of 

 Dr. S. H. Scudder in his catalogue of 1899, except that the 

 family Forficulidse is separately considered as constituting 

 the order Euplexoptera, which is therefore placed in position 

 after the Orthoptera, according to Prof. V. L. Kellogg's 

 method, instead of before, as was formerly done. Recent 

 changes in nomenclature are adopted so far as known. 



Considerable progress has already been made towards a 

 knowledge of the orthopteran species occurring in Kansas, 

 principally through the efforts of Mr. F. B. Isely, who gives 

 the names of ninety-seven species, including the one species 

 of Forficulidcie, which should be separately considered, in his 

 paper entitled "Notes on Kansas Orthoptera." This paper 

 was published in Transactions of the Kansas Academy of 

 Science, volume XIX, pages 238-249. Another paper de- 

 serving of mention, "The Melanopli of Kansas," was pre- 

 pared jointly by Prof. S. J. Hunter and Mr. W. S. Sutton, 

 and it appeared in different issues of Psyche, volume IX. A 

 compilation of the names and records of the species men- 

 tioned in these articles, together with those that are reported 

 as being found in Kansas according to Scudder's catalogue 

 and other miscellaneous sources of information, and the ad- 

 dition of what can be found by inspection of all named speci- 

 mens in different departments of the University, would afford 

 a nearly complete list for the state. Such help as my list 

 offers in this direction is freely granted to whoever under- 

 takes the work as suggested. 



In all, my list gives the names of seventy species and one 

 variety, besides one species of Euplexoptera, which were 

 taken in Kansas. Twenty-six species are not reported in 

 Isely's list. The Colorado collecting includes thirty-one 

 species, eight of which are new to the list published by Prof. 



