1894.1 223 [Morse. 
National museum, Washington, D. C 
Mr. W. S. Blatcliley, Terre Haute, Ind. 
Minnesota state experiment station, St. Anthony Paric, Minn. 
University of Nebraska^ Lincoln, Neb. 
Prof. Lawrence Bruner, Lincoln, Neb. 
Louisiana state experiment station, Baton Rouge, La. 
Leland Stanford, Jr., university, Palo Alto, Cal. 
I desire to express my obligations to all who have favored me 
with specimens for examination, or in other ways contributed to 
increase tlie value of this paper, and among these especially to 
Prof. Bruner, Mr. Henshaw and Mr. Scudder, to Avhose kindness, 
encouragement, and courtesy, very much is due. 
II. Introductouy and Explanatory. 
The genus Spharageinon was founded by Scudder in 1875, tlie 
type of the genus being the species considered by him to be the 
Gryllus aequalis of Say. Six species were placed in it, four 
being described for the first time. Of tlie six species, the tyj)e 
{aeqiude) and two of the new ones {boUi and halteatum) were 
stated to inhabit New England ; the remaining ones were from 
states west of the Mississippi River. 
One of the western species (coUare) has since been reported 
(Bull. no. 4, ent. div. U. S. dept. agric. p. 30, and Bull. 90, 
N. J. agric. coll. exj). station, p. 34) ns occurring on Cape 
Cod, but for several reasons I am disposed to question the cor- 
rectness of the determination of the specimens referred to tliis 
species, see page 234. 
The first species of this genus known to science was described 
by Thomas Say (Journ. acad. nat. sci. Phila., ser. 1, v. 4, p. 
307, — Aiuer. ent., ed. Leconte, v 2, p. 237) under the name of 
Gryllus aequalis. The specimens from which it was drawn were 
collected by him while on Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mts.,i 
but their exact locality Say does not indicate. 
They were deposited hi the collections of the Academy of 
natural sciences of Philadelphia, but have been destroyed. - 
1 This expedition set out from Pittsburg, Pa., and passed throuj^h parts of Oliio, 
Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, and Colorado, to the base of the 
mountains, thence south and southeast, returning through Kansas, Arkansas, etc. 
-This jioiut I have verified by correspondence. 
