Dec, '04] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 325 



Notes and Records of New Jersey Orthoptera. 



By James A. G. Rehn. 



The following records have been made almost entirely from 

 material studied during the past year. Although New Jersey, 

 entomologically considered, has been examined more closely 

 than any other Middle Atlantic state, the localities given in this 

 paper may assist in mapping with greater accuracy the distri- 

 bution of the insects of this order within the State, when taken 

 in conjunction with the great number of published records. 

 The enormous influence of environment is no better illustrated 

 than by the distribution of certain species of Orthoptera found in 

 the cedar swamps, while the apparent preference of other species 

 for the absolutely dry pine barrens is quite as remarkable. 



The author has spent considerable time in the wilder and 

 more unfrequented sections of south and central New Jersey, 

 a portion of which at least is very thinly settled — a land which 

 formerly was the centre of a thriving iron industrj' but now 

 almost deserted. In some of the more inaccessible portions of 

 Ocean and Burlington Counties the cedar swamps and pine 

 lands are absolutely primaeval for miles, a condition, the aver- 

 age individual would not expect to find in a state so long set- 

 tled as New Jersey. As many specimens have been collected 

 miles away from any town or named, stream I have been com- 

 pelled to designate them as taken between such and such points. 



The principal localities mentioned in the following pages are 

 here listed to prevent needless repetition of county names : 



Boonton, Morris Co., Riverton, Burlington Co., Medford, 

 Burlington Co., Taunton, Burlington Co., Atsion, Burlington 

 Co., Bear Swamp, Burlington Co., between Cedar Grove and 

 Chatsworth, Burlington Co., Whitings, Ocean Co., near West 

 Creek, Ocean Co., Stafford's Forge, Ocean Co., Clementon, 

 Camden Co., Atco, Camden Co., Da Costa, Atlantic Co., West- 

 ville, Gloucester Co., North Woodbury, Gloucester Co., Cape 

 May, Cape May Co., Anglesea, Cape May Co. 



BLATTID^. 

 Ischaoptera ahleriana Saussure (= unicolor Scudder). 



Peermont, Cape May Co., July 13, 1901 (Rehn). [<?]. 

 Atsion, Oct. 8, 1903 (Hebard). [9.] 



