SOME INTERESTING GRASSHOPPERS (AND RELA- 
TIVES) OF NORTH CAROLINA. 
BY FRANKLIN SHERMAN, JR. 
The grasshoppers and their relatives comprise the order of 
insects known as the Orthoptera. The entire order contains 
probably about 150 species native to North Carolina, of which 
about 130 have now been collected, identified, and recorded. 
There are not many students of Orthoptera in this country 
and what few entomologists there are in the Southern States 
have neglected the group entirely, hence practically nothing 
was known of the actual distribution of our species until 
1903, when Prof. A. P. Morse, of Wellesley College, made a 
special tour through the Southern States to study this subject, 
and, partially through the entreaties of Mr. C. S. Brimley 
and the author, he devoted more time to North Carolina than 
to any other State,— traversing it from east to west and then 
again visiting the high ranges in the western section. During 
his tour, Prof. Morse spent two days at Raleigh, at which 
time Mr. Brimley and the author accompanied him in collect- 
ing jaunts with the result that our latent interest in this neg- 
lected order was considerably aroused. The facts set forth 
in this paper have, therefore, for the most part, been collected 
in the last three or four years, by C. S. Brimley, G. M. Bent- 
ley, and the writer. 
While no one can seriously study this order of insects 
without becoming interested in the special structures and their 
use in classification, as well as in the habits of the living 
insects, — yet there are about a dozen species which would 
more particularly arouse the interest or curiosity of the ordin- 
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