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First Contribution to a Knowledge of the Orthoptera of Kansas, 



BY LAWRENCE BRUNER. 



[The subjoined paper constitutes the first report of the Washburn Col- 

 lege Biological Survey of Kansas, on the order Orthoptera. It is based 

 upon the material collected by the Survey, and also partly upon material 

 collected by the undersigned before the Survey was organized. It makes 

 no pretense to completeness, as it is the policy of the Survey to publish 

 from time to time such partial reports as shall best represent its progress, 

 the fuller and more general results to be reserved for a final report to be 

 drawn up whenever the same seems warranted by the completeness of the 

 work. 



The present report includes eighty-eight species, many of which have 

 never been previously recorded from this State, and several of which are 

 new to science. Of some of these our reporter will have more to say in a 

 future paper. 



Upwards of seventy species, not thus far included in the Survey's col- 

 lection*, have been recorded in Kansas by eastern and European authors ; 

 but we omit here any enumeration of these species, as we expect ultimately 

 to record them in such a way as to throw much more light upon their dis- 

 tribution and abundance in Kansas than could be given by collating the 

 existing references. 



The Orthopteran fauna of Kansas doubtless includes upwards of two 

 hundred species. F. W. CRAGIN. Director of the Surrey.] 



BLATTIDJE. 



1. Peripianeta orieiitalis L. A single specimen received from Labette 

 Co. (Dr. W. S. Newlon). 



2. Ischnoptera pennsylvanica De Geer. Topeka ; found in woods un~ 

 der logs and the loose bark of trees (Prof. F. W. Cragin). 



MANTID^E. 



3. Phasmomaiitis Carolina L. There are specimens of this Mantid 

 from Labette Co. (Newlon) ; Topeka (Miss Mara Becker, Mrs. J. K. Pitts, 

 Mr. 11. T. McKinney. and Mr, 0. II. Bilger,). arid Medicine Lodge. Barber 

 Co. (Dr. E. H. Lockwood). 



I'HASMIDyE. 



4. Diaphcromera femorata Say. Several immature specimens from 

 Barber Co. (Cragin) ; Ellis (Dr. Louis Watson). 



QRYLLIDJS. 



5. Oryllotalpa Columbia Scudd. Labette Co. (Newlon). 



This is the species first described as G. /'/m//y>r/////x by Mr. Scudder, who 

 afterwards changed it to the above because the name longi/n-imfx had already 

 been used in the genus for an East Indian species. 



