210 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
the use of students in the Massachusetts Agricultural College 
and the farmers of the State. It contains a brief synonymical 
list, glossary, elementary account of the external and internal 
anatomy, and is illustrated by 22 woodcuts. It treats of 71 
species; of these 2 are not found within our limits and 8 names 
fall into synonymy. Being primarily a compilation, based on a 
small amount of material and limjted personal experience, it 
could not but prove, notwithstanding its numerous merits, 
unsatisfactory in some respects, particularly in regard to diag- 
nostic characters and data of time and place, since in but two 
instances were dates mentioned and but rarely were localities 
stated. 
The present writer became interested in the group in 1891, 
during general entomological collecting and study. His first 
systematic paper constituted a revision of the New England spe- 
cies of Orphulella and described 0. olivacea from Connecticut 
(Psyche, vol. 6, p. 477^79, 1893). In 1894, his revision of the 
New England species of Spharagemon including one new species 
was published in the Proceedings of this Society and a "Prelimi- 
nary List of the Acrididae of New England" appeared in Psyche. 
In the same year he began to publish his "Notes on New Eng- 
land Acridiidae" in Psyche. These continued until 1898; 
they contained keys for identification, diagnostic sketches, 
bibliographical and synonymical references, records, numer- 
ous biological data, and practically formed a brief monograph 
of the New England members of that family up to the date of 
publication. 
"A Descriptive Catalogue of the Orthoptera found within Fifty 
Miles of New York" by William Beutenmiiller, published in 1894, 
(Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, p. 253-316, pi. 5-10) 
requires mention since its field includes a part of New England. 
It covered the entire order, contained helpful drawings of 63 
species, and directed attention to certain neglected groups, par- 
ticularly the Tree-crickets, of which two of our species had pre- 
viously been described by the same author. The terminology 
used is now considerably out of date. 
In 1900, Scudder's "List of the Orthoptera of New England" 
was published (Psyche, vol. 9, p. 99-106, 1900). In this he 
