THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. JUS 
stopping when occasion demanded ; but the most novel collecting was 
during the trip through Nebraska. 
It was our good fortune to have a special train from the Platte river to 
Omaha, and as the novelty of riding in the cabin of the locomotive had 
long since worn off, the cow-catcher was next resorted to, and with results 
that had not been anticipated. Sitting carelessly on the beam that supports 
the iron framework, ‘nursing one leg,” I was suddenly struck in the face 
by some small object that decidedly made an impression ; others came in 
_ quick succession, and before I could solve the problem, a large grass- 
hopper (Ædipoda Haldemanni, Scudd), struck my boot, glanced and 
rolled into my lap. Having no bottle at hand, I immediately secured it 
in a leaf from a railroad land document that had been handed me, and 
placed it in my pocket. By this time we were running at 40 miles an 
hour, and grasshoppers pelted us like driving sleet. They seemed to fly 
or jump up from the track at our approach, but not in sufficient time to 
get out of the way, and so we literally ran into them. Those that struck 
the engine were generally injured—in some cases completely smashed— 
and blown off at either side, and it was only those that happened to strike 
on our clothing that were worth preserving. Occasionally a stray dragon 
fly, or an unlucky wasp would get in the way, and even tiger beetles flew 
into the trap ; now and then a large wingless Brachypeplus, with its coarse 
spines, would make its presence felt ; but all were fish that came to the 
_ net, and soon the leaves of my pamphlet were exhausted, all my pockets 
filled, and by the time the station was reached, I was only too glad to 
return to the car and bottle my treasures. In less than half an hour I 
took more insects than I had room for, and what was still better, found 
two new species.* The following is a list of the Orthoptera taken :— 
 Brachypeplus magnus. Œdipoda carolina Linn. 
Opomola bivittata Serv. i trifasciata Say. 
Pezotettix megacephala Thos. N. sp. y tenebrosa Scudd. 
Caloptenus spretus Uhler. ‘ Haldemanni Scudd. 
ce Jemur rubrum Burm. a andulata Thos. N. sp. 
se bivittatus Say. * collaris Scudd. 
Acridium enarginatum Uhler. And two or three other species not 
: yet determined. 
* Two other species taken during the trip are found to be new, and have been 
described by Mr. Thomas. Acridium frontalis from Kansas, and Caloptenus Dodgei, 
Colorado. 
