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PSYCHE. 



first entomological paper was entitled 

 ' Descriptions of new North American 

 Coleoptera in the cahinet of the Ento- 

 mological societ}' of Philadelphia' and 

 was published in the Proc. acad. nat. 

 sci. Phila., for 1866, p. 569-571. In 

 the beginning his original work shows 

 unmistakably his inexperience, but liis 

 great keenness and a true appreciation of 

 the structural differences that character- 

 ize species soon became manifest, and is 

 evident in most of his future publica- 

 tions. Dr. Horn was a rapid, accurate 

 worker, a painstaking and careful delin- 

 eator. His contributions number more 

 than 150 important papers, in addition 

 to very many minor notes ; in these 

 papers about 150 genera and more than 

 7550 species are defined, and very few 



in either series are to be ranked as 

 synonyms. 



Witii hut little interest in, and 

 hardly enough appreciation or even 

 toleration for, many lines of study, 

 Horn's monographic work stands with 

 the very best of liis time, and though 

 the death of Leconte, in 1SS3, was 

 considered a calamit}- to his special 

 branch of science, . it may well be 

 doubted if the death of Horn in 1S97 

 is not a greater loss. Leconte left a 

 well- equipped successor in Horn, but 

 the successor of Horn is not yet appar- 

 ent, and to be worthy of the place must 

 follow closely along the lines so clearly 

 marked out by the well-directed labors 

 of John Lawrence Leconte and George 

 Henry Horn. 



PACIFIC COA.ST COLLECTING. —I. 



BY ALBERT PITTS MORSE, WELLESLEY, MASS. 



At the suggestion and with the coop- 

 eration of Mr. Samuel H. Scudder of 

 Cambridge, Mass., I undertook last 

 summer a collecting trip to the Pacific 

 Coast of the United States to secine the 

 Orthoptera inhabiting the region be- 

 tween the Sierra Nevada mountains and 

 the sea. At his request I have put 

 together a few notes which may prove 

 of interest to entomologists contemplat- 

 ing a trip to that part of the countr}-. 



Of course, so great an extent of ter- 

 ritory could be examined but superfi- 

 cially in one summer, but even this had 

 never been done with special reference 

 to the Orthoptera. And although twelve 



weeks were devoted to the task it was 

 found impossible to do more than make 

 a cursory examination of the most 

 important points directly on the through 

 line of the railroad, and a few short 

 side-trips to places that promised well. 

 Had it been possible I should have vis- 

 ited several more points situated in less 

 accessible but very interesting localities. 

 The same amount of time could be 

 profitably spent upon a much smaller 

 area. Unless it be necessary to exam- 

 ine, however hastily, a large field the 

 best method is to remain in each locality- 

 visited until its various features are 

 adequately covered. 



