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species is given only as far as I have been able to verify it by an inspection of 

 the works quoted. In the references to Harris' Report, I have quoted the 

 third edition (1862) unless otherwise stated. 



The materials employed have been principally my own collections in Ox- 

 ford County, which are now in the Museum of Yale College, and it was my 

 first intention to give only a list of these ; but to make this list more complete, 

 I have included the few additional species mentioned from other parts of the 

 State. 



My thanks are due to Mr. Scudder, of the Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory, for many acts of kindness, and for an opportunity of examining his ex- 

 tensive collection containing the types of the species described by him. 



Family, Forficulid.e (Earwigs). 



Labia minuta Scudd., Jour. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. VII, p. 415. The Little 

 Earwig. 



Norway : A number of specimens were taken, a little before sunset, Sept. 

 14 and 15, 1863, flying about the garden, at quite a height above the ground. 



■ Family, Blattim: (Cockroaches). 



Stylopyga orientalis Fisch. ; Scudd,, 1. c, p. 416. The Common Cockroach. 

 Blatta orientalis Harr., Report, p. 145, fig. 66. 

 Norway : and doubtless all along the seaboard of the State. 



Periplaneta Americana Burm. is probably found with this, but I have not no- 

 ticed it. 



Ectobia Germanica Stephens ; Scudd., 1. c, p. 418. The Little Cockroach. 

 Norway : and probably common throughout the State. 



Family, Gryllid^: (Crickets). 



Gryllus luctuosus Serv., Hist. Nat. de Orthop., p. 335; Scudd., I.e., p. 427. 



The Long Winged Cricket. 



Norway, Greenwood, Buckfleld : not uncommon in company with the next 

 species, from the middle of August to the end of September. 



Gryllus neglectus Scudd., 1. c, p. 428. The Common Black Cricket. 



Norway, Calais : very abundant. This is the common species, and undoubt- 

 edly the one to which Harris, Report, p. 152, intended to allude under the 

 name of Acheta nigra, and which Uhler, in the same place, referred to A. 

 Pennsylvanica Burm. Mr. Scudder, however, considers the type of nigra in 

 Harris' collection distinct from the common species, and Pennsylvanica a third 

 species distinct from nigra and from neglectus. 



Nemobius vittatus Harr., Report, p. 153, fig. 70; Scudd., 1. c, p. 430. The 



Striped Cricket. 



Norway; "Maine, "(Packard)," Scudd.; " Chamberlain Farm," on the Pe- 

 nobscot, Packard. An abundant species everywhere over the State. 



Nemobius fasciatus Scudd., 1. a, p. 430. The Little Long Winged Cricket. 



This species is very much like the last, except in the length of the wings, 

 which extend much beyond the tip of the abdomen, or even to the end of the 

 ovipositor of the female. 



