24 BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF 



CLASSIFICATION 



Experience lias taught me that when one looks up a form 

 in a check list, he generally turns to another one, so I have 

 thought it well to follow a recognized list in each of the orders. 

 This naturally makes some of the sequence appear a bit out of 

 date, but when all is said, one turns to the index, and this 

 volume is primarily a check list of the insects that have been 

 found here. 



I have used in the general classitication the List of the 

 Insects of New York, etc. by M. D. Leonard et al. 1928, which 

 has also been followed in the smaller orders, w^ith the excep- 

 tion of the Ephemeridae, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera, which 

 have been brought up to date to conform with the recent 

 work done on them. Li the Hymenoptera, the same list has 

 been followed, but in the case of parasitic families, some 

 latitude has been taken in listing them, for they are being 

 constantly re-studied, and there is no stable sequence just 

 at present. In the Microlepicloptera it has been used again, 

 but the genera and families are listed in a reverse order so 

 that they may conform to the ^Macrolepidoptera list, and the 

 list that we hope will follow it, for these families. The 

 ]\Iacrolepidoptera are listed as in the recent check list of the 

 Lepidoptera of Canada, and the \J. S. by J. McDunnough 1938. 



The Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America etc. by Charles 

 W. Leng 1920 has naturally been used for the beetles, while 

 the Hemiptera of Connecticut, etc. by W. E. Britton et al. 1923, 

 has seemed to me the most rational list to use for the 

 Hemiptera. In the Diptera I have used The Families and 

 Genera of North American Diptera by C. H. Curran 1934 in 

 order to bring that order up to date. The Aracnida have the 

 latest classification through the kindness of Dr. W. J. Gertsch. 



I have been careful to hold to the original names of places 

 that have come down since they were first given and have 

 paid no attention to some fanciful names recently given. The 

 mountains on the island that have gone down in zoological 

 literature under their original names have been renamed and 

 with what imagination! One huge mass of granite now^ bears 



