[From the Proceedings of the Portland Society of Natural History.] 

 Published February, 1868. 



ON THE ORTHOPTERA 



STATE OF MAINE. 



BY SIDNEY I. SMITH. 



On the following pages I have enumerated every species of Orthoptera of 

 which I have myself taken specimens in. the State, or which has been men- 

 tioned in any publication with which 1 am acquainted as coming from the 

 State. The list has been prepared with special reference to facilitating the 

 study of the geographical distribution of this most interesting group of in- 

 sects, and to that end particular attention has been paid to the exact localities 

 in the State where each species has been found. From the little attention that 

 most entomologists and collectors have "given to the Orthoptera, the exact 

 localities recorded are very few. When I have not myself taken the species 

 in the locality mentioned, I have always given the authority upon which it is 

 inserted. Mr. Scudder's Materials for a Monograph of the North American 

 Orthoptera, published in the Journal of the Boston Society of Natural History, 

 is the best and almost the only authority on the New England species, and I 

 have adopted the arrangement and the names there used, except where more 

 recent investigation has rendered changes necessary. The synonymy of the 



