During my recent trip through Colorado and adjacent territory, as a member of the New York agricultural editorial excursion party, I made it a point to collect whenever an opportunity was offered. Through Kansas, the three-minute stops at the stations. many of which are out on the open plains, afforded me opportunity for turning over old railroad ties, &c., for beating the herbage and rank vegetation at the sides of the track, or for searching in the dry grass and weeds for Orthoptera.