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In 18G2, an important paper of 71 pages, by S. H. Scudder, 
appeared in the Boston Journal of Natural History, pu!)lished 
by this Society, entitled " Materials for a Monograph of the North 
American Orthoptera, including a Catalogue of the Known New 
England Species." This listed 78 species from New England, of 
which 17 names are now relegated to synonymy and two are of 
kinds which do not occur here; however, the names of 14 of our 
species date from the publication of this paper. It was followed 
at frequent intervals during the remainder of the centun>' by a 
remarkable series of articles by the same author, of varied charac- 
ter, biologic and systematic, on North American Orthoptera. 
Many of these were based on or contained references to New 
England material. A full list will be found in Scudder's "Alpha- 
betical Index to North American Orthoptera" pubHshed by 
this Society in 1901, References will be made to certain ones 
later. 
In 1868, Professor Sidney I. Smith, of Yale University, pub- 
lished a brief article of nine pages in the Proceedings of the Port- 
land Society of Natural History entitled, "On the Orthoptera of 
the State of Maine," in which he enumerated all the species 
recorded or known by him to inhabit that State, totalling 38, and 
described " Pezotettix manca,^' the Melanoplus mancus of this 
Manual. This article was followed, in his Report of the Entomol- 
ogist to the Connecticut Board of Agriculture for the year 1872^ 
by a short account of the Orthoptera of that State, in which he 
treated briefly some 40 species and added a list of the Orthoptera 
of Connecticut, enumerating 61. Of this number, 8 are synonyms 
and 3 do not occur in that State. 
One of Scudder's papers which requires mention here is that on 
"The Distribution of Insects in New Hampshire" (Hitchcock's 
Kept. Geol. N. H., 1874, vol. 1, p. 331-380). This contains a " List 
of the Orthoptera of New Hampshire, with Notes on their 
Geographical Distribution and Stridulation. " 
In 1888, Professor Charles H. Fernald published in the Report 
of the State Board of Agriculture of Massachusetts, an article of 61 
pages entitled, "The Orthoptera of New England." This may 
be said to be the first work devoted solely to the Orthoptera of 
the same territory covered by this Manual. It was a useful in- 
troduction to the order as found in New England, designed for 
