No. l6.] INSECTS OF CONNECTICUT. 



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EXPLANATION OF COLLECTORS' INITIALS. 



W. B. — William Beutenmuller, New York. Curator of Ento- 

 mology, American Museum of Natural History. Has col- 

 lected Orthoptera in Connecticut. 



W. E. B. — W. E. Britton, New Haven, State Entomologist and 

 Entomologist of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. The author of a number of papers on Connecticut 

 insects. Has collected in nearly all parts of the state. 



W. S. B. — W. S. Blatchley, Indianapolis, Ind. A leading 

 specialist in the Orthoptera. Has collected in Connecticut. 



A. P. M. — Albert P. Morse, Wellesley, Mass. Curator of 

 Museum at Wellesley College, and Research Assistant, 

 Carnegie Institute of Washington. A well-known specialist, 

 who has collected Acridida in the principal sections of the 

 state. The records of his captures are given in " Notes 

 on the Acrididse of New England," published in Psyche. 



E. J. S. M. — E. J. S. Moore, New Haven, a student employed 

 temporarily as assistant in the entomological department of 

 the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Collected 

 chiefly around New Haven. 

 S. I. S. — Sydney I. Smith, New Haven, Professor of Com- 

 parative Anatomy, Yale University. An early student 

 of the Orthoptera. 



A. E. V. — Addison E. Verrill, New Haven, Professor of 

 Zoology, Yale University. Has collected insects in various 

 parts of the state, but chiefly around New Haven and 

 on the Thimble Islands. 



H. L. V. — Henry L. Viereck, Philadelphia, for more than a year 

 Assistant in Entomology at the Connecticut Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. Has collected in nearly all sections of 

 the state, but more especially around New Haven and along 

 the shore. 



B. H. W. — B. H. Walden, New Haven, Assistant in Ento- 



mology at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. 

 Has collected in nearly all parts of the state. 



