216 ORTHOPTERA OF NOVA SCOTIA. — PIERS. 



"cockroach, grasshopper, cricket, and locust", the last 

 probably referring to the Cicada. Haliburton, in his chapter 

 on the natural history of the province, in his history of 

 Nova Scotia, 1829, gives practically nothing about insects. 

 J. W. Dawson's "Hand Book of the Geography and Natural 

 History of Nova Scotia," third edition, Pictou, 1852, page 82, 

 under the order Orthoptera dismisses the subject with a 

 mere general reference to "the crickets and the grasshoppers, 

 of which there are several species, all very injurious to 

 vegetation." 



Lieutenant Redman, many years ago, had collected a 

 number of specimens in the province for the cabinet of 

 the British Museum. He must have been here at least 

 prior to 1848, as he is referred to as having obtained speci- 

 mens of flies from Nova Scotii in Walkei's "List of Dipterous 

 Insects in the British Museum," the first volume of which 

 was published in that year. Who this Lieut. Redman 

 was, I have been able to conjecture with a large degree of 

 certainty, for no doubt he was in the army, and it so the 

 only man who could be he in the Army Lists from 1822 to 

 1849, is Lieut. Richard Sparrow Redman, who was com- 

 missioned lieutenant in the 60th (Royal American) Regi- 

 ment of Foot in 1809 and served in that corps t'll 25th 

 July, 1822, when he was placed on the half-pay of the 12th 

 Light Dragoons, and died in 1833. From old Halifax 

 almanacs, we find that "R. S. Redman" is named as senior 

 lieutenant of the 2nd (lately the 3rd) Battalion, 60th Regi- 

 ment, and that he was at Halifax in that corps from about 

 1820 (almanac for 1821) till at least the end of 1821 (almanac 

 for 1822), so that no doubt he was here until placed on half- 

 pay in July, 1822. Whether he thereupon returned to Eng- 

 land is not known; but as we have said he die I in 1833. We 

 can therefore be quite reasonably certain thit this was the 

 "Lieut. Redman" who collected here, and that his collection 



