REPORT ON THE SCUTELLEROIDEA 
Collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition 
from the University of Iowa in 1918 
DAYTON STONER 
Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of Iowa 
INTRODUCTION 
The material which serves as the basis for the present paper 
was secured mainly by the writer and Mrs. Stoner who were 
members of the scientific party from the University of lowa 
which visited some of the West India Islands, Barbados and 
Antigua, in particular, during the spring and summer of 1918. 
Collecting was done on Barbados at irregular intervals and as 
time afforded from other duties between May 16 and June 11, 
and at Antigua between June 19 and July 19. 
To the best of the writer’s knowledge no systematic collecting 
of this group of insects has heretofore been indulged in on either 
Barbados or Antigua, although extensive general collecting has 
been undertaken on these as well as on certain other islands of 
the West Indies, namely Trinidad, Jamaica, St. Vincent and 
Grenada. Indeed, considerable intensive collecting has been done 
in some of these places. Of course various species have been 
reported from time to time on different islands of the group and 
on some islands certain species are of considerable economic 
importance. 
At Barbados, only members of the family Pentatomide were 
secured, but, without doubt, representatives of the families 
Cydnide and Scutelleride also occur on the islands. Fortunately 
we were able to take two species of Scutelleride at Antigua, but 
representatives of the Cydnide were not discovered. 
Most of the pentatomids here discussed have been hitherto 
recorded from the ‘‘West Indies’’ and some more specifically 
from Grenada and St. Vincent, but few from either Barbados 
or Antigua. Several of the present records are, therefore, new 
