Excerpt from Orthoptera of Northeastern America: With Especial Reference to the Faunas of Indiana and Florida There has long been need of a single comprehensive manual on the Orthoptera of the Eastern United States. The original descriptions and information regarding the distribution and habits of these interesting insects arc scattered through scores of books and pamphlets which the student has to consult in order to correctly determine the various species which he may collect or have at hand. Many of these works are out of print or very difficult to obtain. For that reason the beginner is often discouraged at the very start and the study of Orthoptera has, therefore, not kept pace with that of other orders of insects whose literature is more available. The present work has been prepared to supply the need above mentioned. It is an outgrowth or expansion of my "Orthoptera of Indiana" issued in and long since out of print. In that work 148 species were described and keys given for their determination. Since its issue the researches of Rehn and Hebard, Candell. Morse. Hancock. Walker. Davis and other special students of United States Orthoptera have brought about numerous changes in the nomenclature of the group and have added many new forms to the known fauna of our country. The great majority of Orthopteia inhabiting the United States east of the Mississippi River and Canada east of the 90th Meridian (the territory covered by this work) are now known. The nomenclature - always flexible and in the end largely dependent upon the view point of the student - is fairly well established. The time is, therefore, deemed propitious for the appearance of such a work and it is offered as the best that I can accomplish with the facilities at my command. In the preparation of this manual I have ever had in mind the needs of the tyro and not those of the specialist in Orthoptera, the primary object in view being a simple work which would enable beginners in the most direct way possible to determine the scientific unities and arrange and classify the Orthoptera in their collections. As far as possible easily understood words and terms have been used in the keys and descriptions, and many of the subdivisions adopted by other authors have been omitted in order to render the work less technical and.more easily followed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.