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LIST OF ORTHOPTEROUS INSECTS RECORDED FROM 
WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 
By 
W. B. Alexander, M.A., Keeper of Biology, W.A. Museum. 
(Read 13th June, 1916.) 
This list contains references to the literature on the group 
available in Perth, including also species in the collection of the 
Western Australian Museum, not previously recorded from the 
State. 
* Indicates one or more specimens in the collection of the W.A. 
Museum. 
** Indicates type in the W.A. Museum. 
S.W. refers to all that portion of Western Australia south of 
25 degees S. lat. 
N.W. to that portion of Western Australia between 19 degrees 
and 25 degrees S. lat. 
K. to the Kimberley division, the portion of Western Australia 
north of 19 degrees S. lat. 
The distribution outside the State as far as ascertained is added 
in brackets. 
S. A. — South Australia, Viet. — Victoria, Tas. — Tasmania. 
N.S.W. — New South Wales, Q. — Queensland. N.T. — Northern 
Territory, C.A. — Central Australia, N.G. — New Guinea, N.Z. — 
New Zealand. 
DERMAPTERA (Earwigs). 
General Literature: — de Bormans, Tierreich, Lief. IL, Eorfi- 
culidae {1900 ) ; Kirby, Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. vol. I. 
(1904) ; Burr, I’auna Sudwest-Australiens, Bd. II., Lief. 5, Dermajj- 
tera (1908); Burr, Genera Insectorum, h'asc. 122, I)erma])tera 
(1911). 
Fam. Pygidicranidae {Burr, l.c. 1911). 
*I-\'ge shortridgei, Burr — S.W. (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 
XIII. 1914). 
