PEOGEESS OF THE STUDY OF OETHOPTERA. 5 



is illustmtcd by thirty-seven good coloured plates, but it was an 

 expensive work, difficult to obtain, and, treating the fauna of a distant 

 land, had little influence upon the entomologists of Great Britain. 

 De Haan's^'^ folio is still indispensable to students of the orthoptera 

 of the Oriental Eegion, but may be considered as being beyond the 

 scope of a purely J 5ritish entomologist. In 1853 Fischer of Fribourg 

 brought out his Orthnptcra I'lumpaca'^'^, which cannot be too highly 

 praised. But still we search in vain for reference to them in the 

 scanty observations upon our British orthoptera. John Curtis' 

 Ihitish Entomolniiif^ gave excellent plates of some of our British 

 species, and was doubtless an important aid to identification, though 

 he adopts many of Stephens' mistakes. Eeference must not be 

 omitted to Walker's^'' Catalot/iwa which began shortly to be published 

 l)y the British Museum. They are a monument of wasted labour and 

 expense, and the highest compliment that we can pay to his 

 descriptions is to say that some of them are recognisable. Still, they 

 referred but incidentally to our British fauna, while on the continent 

 they gave rise to strongly - worded letters from Brunner von 

 Wattenwyl and de Saussure, to the Director of the Museum. These 

 letters have been published in French and German, and freely 

 discussed, and although the importance of a scientific catalogue is 

 recognised, many authorities deny the volumes of Walker the right 

 to the name. 



About this time, two authors began to publish large monographs 

 upon the orthoptera. Henri de Saussure gave us the first fascicule 

 of his monumental Melawics orihojjterulni/iqiies, in 1863, and in the 

 iol\o\xing year M/'iDcirea pour scrrir a rHistoire natiirclle dii Mcriqiie, 

 (ies Antilles ct di's FAaU-Unis. Orthnjitcrcs, Livr. iii and iv, Blattides, 

 Genere, 1861. The importance of these publications can hardly be 

 overestimated, b;it from their scope, they had, of course, no influence 

 upon the study of British orthoptera. In the five following fascicules 

 of the Melanijes arthoptpyoldi/iquefi, &c., de Saussure treated various 

 groups, but especially the Mantndea (Fasc. iii) and the Gryllodea 

 (Fasc. v-vi). This latter remains to this day the only monograph of 

 the crickets of the world. De Saussure's various other large works, 

 for instance his account of the Blattodea and Mantodea of Madagascar 

 (in Grandidier), and the lUattodca, Mantodea, Luciistodea a.nd Gri/llodea 

 in the Biuhyjia Centrali-Americana are also beyond the range of this 

 article. 



An author who comes nearer home to us, however, who commenced 

 publishing about the same time as de Saussure, and Avho has made 

 himself the final and highest authority upon the orthoptera of the 

 world, is Brunner von Wattenwyl. He set the model of monographs 

 of families in his Nonreau Sj/steine des Blattaires^\ followed by a 

 monograph of the Phaneropteridae^^ in 1878. The work which 



^o Haan, Dr. W. de, "Bijdragen tot de Kennis der Orthoptera" [Vcrhandl.over 

 de natuiiijke Gcxchiednu der Nedeiiandsclie ovcrzce^che Bczittinfien, 1842). 



11 Fischer, Fr., Orthopteva Kuyojnien, Tab,xviii., Lipsine, 1853. 



12 Curtis, John, British KntowoliMjij, &c., vols, i-xvi., 770 pi., L; ndon, 1823-40. 

 18 Walker, F., Catalogue of the Jllattarine in the collection of the Britisli Muscinu, 



18G8. Id., Catalogue of the Dcrmaptera Saltatoria in the collection of the British 

 Musenni, vols, i-v., 18(39-71. 



11 Vienna, 1865. 



15 Vcrh. A'. Ic. zool.-hot. Ges. ]Vicn., 1878. This has been followed by sln;i!ar 



