ORTHOPTERA OF NOVA SCOTIA. — PIERS. 239 



fic names, when at all in use, are noted, but this in a very 

 subsidiary way when they are founded on mere trivial 

 distinctions between intergrading long- and short-winged 

 forms. Othei trinomial names, as in the case of well defined 

 geographical races, are of course accepted. It is perhaps 

 well, in a local paper like this, to as clearly as possible desig- 

 nate in all cases just what particular form or variant is found 

 here. Some may possibly criticize any prominence whatever 

 given to dimorphic forms through the use, even very sub- 

 ordinately, of special names to distinguish their various 

 phases; but their occasional use helps towards preciseness 

 and at least cannot lead to confusion. Appended to the 

 scientific name, is the name of the original describer 

 of the species, his name being printed in parentheses when 

 the species is now placed in a different genus from that to 

 which it was first assigned by that authority. Following 

 the scientific name and the so-called "common name", 

 which as we have seen is usually not a common name at all, 

 appear references to the names used by writers in papers 

 dealing with Nova Scotian Orthoptera in any way. These 

 latter articles are such as may be called original sources of 

 information as far as this province is concerned. No attempt 

 has been made to present a general synonymy of the species, 

 which may be seen in the writings of authors such as Blatchley 

 and Scudder.* 



As one has frequently to go from one monograph to 

 another to get descriptions of all our species, which is always 

 laborious and in fact impossible for many who have not such 

 literature at hand, and as I strongly believe that this difficulty 

 which besets a beginner is one of the very reasons why we 

 have given so little attention to this highly important order 



♦Beginners may be reminded that names of families end in -idw and those of subfamilies 

 in-inm It will aid the student in pronouncing these narnos to know that the t in-idm in 

 family names is short, and therefore the ancent falls on tho syllable preceding that letter; 

 while the i oi-ince in subfamily names is long and consequently accented. 



