Eutomolof/ical Socicf/j of Britlsli Columbia 9 



A LIST OF THE ORTHOPTERA AND DERMAPTERA RECORDED 



FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA PRIOR TO THE YEAR 1922, 



WITH ANNOTATIONS 



E. R. BUCKELL 



The following list is intended as a l)asis upon which we may even- 

 tually build up a complete and authentic check list of the British Col- 

 umbia Orthoptera and Dermaptera. 



From the collections made during the past three years, and from the 

 available literature, there are listed below the majority of the species 

 which have been recorded from this Province prior to the year 1922, 

 withholding only those whose specific determination at this time is un- 

 cei-tain, owing to the genera to which they belong being in the course 

 of revision. It is the intention of the author to revise and add to this 

 list from time to time, in order to include those species at present with- 

 held and any new records which may be discovered, or to correct any 

 errors in determination or synonymy which may occur in the present 

 list. 



During recent years the careful and extensive researches conducted 

 by Messrs. J. A. G. Rehn and Morgan Hebard, at the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, have disclosed the fact that many of our west- 

 ern Orthoptera are specifically distinct from, though closely related to, 

 species found in central and eastern North America, and a number of 

 new western species have been described. 



Some of our British Columbia records will undoubtedly be found, 

 eventually, to belong to those new species — often Great Basin forms of 

 the genus — and not to the species to which they are at present assigned, 

 and Messrs. Rehn and Hebard have a number of our western genera in 

 the course of revision. 



In the following list, however, all records are included, as it re- 

 quires further study and collecting to definitely determine in some 

 genera just which species we have in British Columbia. 



In a Province containing approximately 355,855 square miles, with 

 such great diversity of topography and climate, and containing floral and 

 faunal zones ranging from Upper Sonoran to Arctic, often in close prox- 

 imity, it is possible to find species inhabiting very different types of en- 

 vironment within a comparatively short distance of one another. 



The humid and more mountainous sections of the Province such as 

 the Coast district containing the Coast Mountains, and the Kootenay 

 district with its neighboring Selkirk and Rocky Mountain Ranges have 



