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ORTHOPTERA OF NOVA SCOTIA. — PIERS. 



specimen /, and the shortest in Z. Detailed measui-ements of each of the 

 specimens are given in the full table, of measurements on page 346. 



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Gryllus pennsylvaniciis negleclus: Nova Scotian females. 



Diagram illustrating the Relative Length of Ovipositor to that of Hind Femur. 



The letters are those designating the particular specimens in the preceding 



table of measurements. 



Longest o^'ipositor actually, spe^imsn/,- siDrtesc o/lpojitor actually, specimen i; longest 

 hind femur actually, specimen /; shortest hind femur actually, specimsn I. Longest ovipositor 

 compared proportionatelj' ^vith length of hind femur, specimen a; shortest ovipositor com- 

 pared with hind femur, specimen o- Specimens nearest normal, /, h, q. 



Nomenclatural remarks on the Nova Scotian form. — To 

 sum up the question of nomenclature, I have no doubt 

 that our common Nova Scotian Field Cricket is a shorter- 

 winged variant of the form which has hitherto been known 

 as Gryllus pennsylvanicus. Furthermore, without at all 

 desiring to hold to an older nomenclature or to what may 

 be an untenable hair-splitting of names in a genus the mem- 

 bers of which, as we have seen, are being gradually bulked 



