Dec, 1904] BuENO : Hemiptera Found near New York. 251 



Class I, HEXAPODA. 



Order IX, HEMIPTERA. 



A LIST OF CERTAIN FAMILIES OF HEMIPTERA 



OCCURRING WITHIN SEVENTY MILES 



OF NEW YORK. 



By J. R. de la Torre Bueno, 

 Nkw York, N. Y. 



The list of Hemiptera that I now present is necessarily not as 

 complete or as perfect as it might have been had I collated authori- 

 ties and gone into an extensive examination of other collections 

 than Mr. Davis's and my own. In publishing this list I am moved 

 by two considerations : first, that outside of the work done by Mr. E. 

 P. Van Duzee about Buffalo, similar work has not been attempted 

 elsewhere in the state to my knowledge, and, consequently, any 

 records bearing on the Hemipterous fauna of this vicinity, however 

 isolated they may be, cannot be valueless, at least in helping for the 

 moment other students of distribution and the problems involved ; 

 and later it may be serviceable to some slight degree as a foundation 

 for the extensive and complete list that there should be of the ento- 

 mological fauna of New York State ; second, that in making these 

 records I wish to preserve in a much more permanent form than pinned 

 insects the fruit of my collecting. It seems to me almost trite to say 

 that printer's ink will last longer than pinned bugs. Then, also, this 

 list would be more accessible to distant friends than would my boxes. 



The deficiencies of work of this nature are inseparable from its 

 character. A list is a list. It cannot be a synopsis, neither can it be 

 a key for the determination of species, nor can it legitimately be 

 criticised because it is not a handbook. As a mere enumeration of 

 forms occurring within certain definite limits a list is of intrinsic value 

 in the study of the distribution of species, with which many of the 

 most momentous problems of economic entomology are bound up. 

 That this is a rational view of the matter is attested to by what Amer- 

 ican entomologists of repute have said about it in their writings. 

 Professor Herbert Osborn referring to this says : * 



■* " Remarks on the Hemipterous Fauna of Ohio, with a Preliminary Record of 

 Species." Contrib. Dept. Zool. and Ent., O. S. U., No. 2. Ohio State Acad Sci., 

 8th Ann. Rep., pp. 60-79. 



