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liminary paper published in the Transactions of the Institute, 

 vol. ix, pp. 208-218, 1896, which listed fourteen nominal 

 species observed by myself, but which took no notice of 

 Walkei's records as the validity of his names were too doubtful 

 in some instances to render quotation advisable. The 

 determination of nearly all the forms listed by me were 

 verified by the most noted of American orthopterists, the 

 late Dr. Samuel H. Scudder of Cambridge, a gentleman 

 who will long be remembered for his scientific knowledge, 

 his general culture, and his refinfed and delightful personality. 

 Other claims upon my time have since arisen; but many 

 additional notes have been made, which with changes in 

 nomenclature, have made it desirable that a revised list be 

 prepared. 



In the spring of 1913, Mr. Charles Benjamin Gooderham 

 of the Agricultural College, Truro, N. S., began, under the 

 direction of the then Provincial Entomologist, Dr. Robert 

 Matheson, the collection and study of Orthoptera about 

 that town and the western counties of Nova Scotia, where 

 the faunal conditions are considerably different from those 

 of the Atlantic seaboard. He has since continued this 

 work, and in 1914 founded the orthopteran collection at 

 the before-mentioned college and has likewise built up a 

 collection of his own. He has just published a paper on 

 the Acrididse of Nova Scotia in the Proceedings of the Ento- 

 mological Society of Nova Scotia for 1916, no. 2 (Jan., 1917), 

 pp. 21-30, which lists thirteen forms. To the kindness of 

 Mr. Gooderham, who has most courteously placed many 

 of his notes at my disposal, we are indebted for the inclusion 

 in our list of some interesting species which I have not met 

 about Halifax, and through his observations the relative 

 abundance of species in the eastern and western sections is 

 better understood. Mr. Gooderham was lately assistant pro- 

 vincial entomologist at Truro.* Mr. E. Chesley Allen, 



♦In 1917 be was transferred to the Central Experimental Farm at Ottawa as Assistant 

 Dominion Apiarist. 



