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and Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, p. 477, 1005). As late 

 a.s 1910, Rehn and Hebard themselves, writing of G. negleclus, 

 said that this form appears worthy of some designation 

 whether specific or varietal (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila., 

 vol. 62, p. 047, 1910); and in 1915 they speak of neglectus 

 and pennsylvanicus as two of the nine most frequently en- 

 countered, but unfixed, variants of G. assimilis, under which 

 latter name they finall}'^ place all the variants (Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sc. Phila., vol. 67, p. 302, 1915). They however advise 

 against the use of special names to designate such variants. 

 We may for the present conclude that neglectus is at least 

 a convenient tentative name, although of very minor rank, 

 and as such I have used it here. 



I do not feel inclined to say that the form which has 

 been known as the typical G. pennsylvanicus (such as de- 

 scribed by Blatchley for instance) has yet been found in 

 Nova Scotia, although a very few of our specimens show 

 a slight tendency towards intergradation with that variant. 

 Scudder in 1900 reported pennsylvanicus { = niger of his 

 older list) as common in the southern half of New England. 

 The so-called ahhreviatus of authors, one would rather expect 

 to find here, as Scudder in 1900 said it is common everywhere 

 in New England; but it has not yet been reported from the 

 Maritime Provinces, and I have met with nothing to cause 

 me to include its name among our Orthoptera. 



Occurrence in Nova Scotia. — The Short-winged Pennsyl- 

 vanian Field Cricket, which I consider to be the variant 

 previously known as Gryllus pennsylvanicus neglectus of 

 Scudder, varies in abundance from rather common to very 

 common in Nova Scotia, although it is not so excessively 

 abundant as its lesser relative the Short-winged Ground 

 Cricket {Nemohius fasciatus). It was not, however, definitely 

 recorded from this province until 1896.* I have never 



*In 1894 I had reported it from Windsor, N. S., under tlie erroneous name of Acheta 

 abbreviala (Trans. N. S. Inst. Sc., 8, 410). Strange to say F. Walker did not report it from 

 Nova Scotia in his list of the Orthoptera of Canada (Can. Ent., iv, 1872). Walter Bromley's 

 mere reference, in 182.5, to "crickets" as occurring in Nova Scotia is altogether indefinite. 



