The chief difficulty in the preparation of the list has not consisted 
in capturing the specimens, though, as already stated a few are rare and 
others local, but has centered more particularly about the disputed 
species. Mr.*Samuel H. Scudder has identified many of the specimens 
and some have also been inspected by Mr. Lawrence Bruner. 
Nearly all of the species mentioned will be found described at some 
length in ‘‘The Orthoptera of New England,” by C. H. Fernald, 
published in the Thirty-fifth Annual Report of the Mass. Board of Agri- 
culture. Seventy-one species are noted in that work and it will be ob- 
served that sixty-three are here recorded. 
GRYLLIDZE. 
Gryllotalpa borealis, Burm. August. 
This insect is not difficult to capture. It can be located in the 
muggy places that it inhabits by it song and may be easily probed out 
of the tunnel with the finger. If the captive specimen is placed on the 
ground it will begin straightway to dig, or if put on a handkerchief or 
piece of paper, go through all the motions necessary to bury itself under 
natural conditions. 
Gryllotalpa columbia, Scudder. August. 
This form does not differ from the preceding, except in length and 
size of wings ; a common variation in Gry//ws and in insects of other 
orders. It is often attracted by light, at least, I have a specimen that 
was captured in a barber shop ‘and another found in a parlor. 
Gryllus abbreviatus, Serville. 
oe luctuosus, Serville. 
Gryllus may be heard stridulating on the last days of May and from 
thence onward to frost. Many of the immature live under stones &c. 
over winter, and if they are placed in a box together they speedly fight, 
and the weaker ones are devoured. 
Nemobius vittatus, Harris. Late June and July. 
This insect is quite pugnacious and will sometimes bite savagely 
when poked with a straw, even coming forward to meet it, after several 
apparent failures on the part of the straw to do it any damage. They 
will also quarrel among themselves. I have seen two individuals fight- 
ing in the field, all the while keeping up a constant stridulation, but 
neither one appeared to be at all injured, they having merely pulled one 
another about a little. Theré is a small form that “has generally been 
included in this species. What Dr. Fitch calls the ‘‘ fiddle bow nerve” 
in the tegmina is differently shaped from the preceding, the ovipositor is 
shorter (4 to 5 mm. long), and the stridulation a continuous rolling 
whir, instead a f the ordinary creak, creak, creak. However, further in- 
vestigation may prove these characters unstable. 
Anaxipha exigua, Say. August. 
Staten Island appears to be the most north-eastern station for this 
insect so far reported. It is not uncommon in certain localities along 
the ditches in the salt meadows where the high tide bushes (/va_ /ru/escens) 
grow, It clings from six inches to a foot up the stems and its song has 
a particular silvery tone. 
