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About the best remedy for Orthoptera on a farm is a large flock of 

 turkeys. Under the leadership of an experienced gobbler, almost 

 their entire time during the summer and fall months is spent in 

 wandering over the fields and pastures in search of the fat and juicy 

 nymphs of locusts, grasshoppers and crickets. Indeed, most of the 

 luscious white and brown meat of our Thanksgiving and Christmas 

 dinners was once gTass, then grasshopper, and finally turkey. No 

 better and more practical remedy can be devised, for the damage 

 which the insects do is, especially in these days of "turkey trusts,'' 

 often more than compensated by the value of the pounds of flesh 

 which this domesticated fowl stores up from its favorite food of 

 locusts. 



BiBLIOGUAPHY AND SYNONYMY. 



In the preparation of this paper, the following papers and gen- 

 eral works on Orthoptera have been consulted or are referred to in 

 the synonymy which follows the scientific name of each species.* In 

 order to save space the titles of the papers and works are not given 

 in the synonymy, but each is known by a certain number, printed in 

 open space figures, which, in the snyonymy, immediately follows the 

 name or abbreviation of the author, and all references to that paper 

 bear the same number. For example, Scudder's "Materials for a 

 Monograph of North American Orthoptera," in Vol. VII of the Jour- 

 nal of the Boston Society of Natural History, bears the number 1 4 1 

 in the Bibliography, and whenever Scudd. is followed by the open 

 space number 14 1, reference is made to the paper mentioned. Thus, 

 on page 243, under Orphulella speciosa (Scudder), we find in italics 

 tlie name Stenolotlvrus spccioms Scudd., 14 1, VII, 1862, 458. This 

 shows that on page 458 of the "Materials for the Monograph of North 

 American Orthoptera" there is, under the name Stenohothrus speci- 

 osus, a description or important notice of the species now known as 

 Orphulella speciosa (Scudder). In this particular instance the origi- 

 nal description is referred to. When in the original description a 

 species was placed by the author in a genus different from that to 

 which it is now referred, the name of the author is placed in paren- 

 thesis. In the example referred to, the locust described as speciosus 

 was placed in the genus Stcnobotlirus by Mr. Scudder. It is now rec- 

 ognized as belonging to the genus Orphullela as at present limited. 

 Hence Scudder's name is placed in parenthesis. 



* An asterisk ('•) preceding the number in the Bibliography denotes that the paper re- 

 ferred to has not been seen by the author, the title being quoted from .*^cudder'3 "Index to 

 North American Orthoptera." All papers not preceded by an asterisk are in tlie author's 

 library. 



