PREFACE. 



The followinsf list contains all known definite references to 

 the Orthoptera of North America and the West Indies made by- 

 naturalists from the time of Linne to the close of the last cen- 

 tury. It should however he remarked that Avhile references to 

 Panama are of course included, those to Colombia (or New 

 Grenada) without further specification are omitted, althouirh 

 perhaps it would have been better to include such general ref- 

 erences, as i)Ossibly concerning the isthmus. 



It is in no sense a synonymic list but a simple index to the 

 names as they are in each instance employe<l. It has been forty 

 years in the making. The older part of it was })ublished in 

 1S68 by the Smithsonian Institution,* but that ])ortion is in- 

 cluded in the present work with omission of certain references 

 which should not have been inti"0(biced, and with an abbreviation 

 of the geographical references to avoid the detail there em- 

 ployed which, if continued, would have unduly exj)anded the 

 volume. 



The entries under each heading are chronological, and cross 

 references are used where especially desirable. 'J'he arrange- 

 ment being alphabetical, first by genera and afterwards by spe- 

 cies, a mere reference list of specific names in place of an index 

 is added at the end. This will help the student in following the 

 vicissitudes of any given specific name. 



As in the ])revious Catalogue, "the list furnishes an index to 



* Catalofiue of the Orthoptei-a of North America described i)revious to 1867. 

 Smithsonian misceUaneous collections, 189. 



