The Euplexoptera and Orthoptera of 



Connecticut 



INTRODUCTION. 



The insects discussed in this paper belong to two orders, 

 the Euplexoptera and the Orthoptera, following the classification 

 adopted for the collection of the Connecticut Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station. This collection contains Connecticut repre- 

 sentatives of eighty-two species, from which many of the 

 records in this paper are taken. Some writers recognize but one 

 order, and include the small group Euplexoptera under Orthop- 

 tera. 



In 1872, Professor Sidney I. Smith of Yale University, who 

 was at that time entomologist of the State Board of Agriculture, 

 presented to the Board a report on the Orthoptera of Connecticut. 

 This paper mentions sixty-one species, of which a few are va- 

 rieties or synonyms. Probably the most careful collecting in 

 Connecticut in the Acridida?, one family of this order, has been 

 done by Professor Albert P. Morse of Wellesley, Massachusetts, 

 a leading authority on the group. In his " Notes on the Acrididas 

 of New England " he records all of the species of this family 

 taken by him. In the " Catalogue of the Orthoptera of New 

 England," by Professor Samuel H. Scudder, are recorded 

 seventy-four species as probably occurring. in Connecticut. These 

 records were probably largely furnished by Professors Morse 

 and Smith. 



The present paper includes one hundred and nine species, 

 one hundred of which have been recorded from the state. The 

 remaining nine species and probably a few others will un- 

 doubtedly be found by careful collecting. The arrangement of 

 the genera and species is in general based upon the " Catalogue 

 of the Orthoptera of the United States and Canada," by Scudder. 



