BARBADOS-ANTIGUA REPORTS 5 
pentatomid fauna of the two islands seems to be Central Ameri- 
ean and Mexican in its affinities rather than South American. 
A number of host and food plants of several of the species 
of pentatomids herein mentioned were preserved and brought 
_ back to the States for determination. However, through no 
fault of the writer, the package containing these plants was un- 
fortunately lost so that this phase of the work must of necessity, 
be slighted. 
The writer is indebted to Dr. L. O. Howard and to Mr. W. L. 
McAtee for the privilege of having access to specimens of 
Seutelleroidea in the United States National Museum, where 
Uhler’s and other collectors’ West Indian material is housed, 
and with which many of the specimens in the present collection 
were compared. Acknowledgement is also herewith tendered 
these men and other officials of the Museum who made available 
the use of a desk in the building during a part of the summer 
of 1921, when a number of comparative studies were made. 
The following brief discussion concerning certain topographic, 
climatie and other conditions existing on Barbados and Antigua 
is quoted from a previous general account by the writer which 
dealt with some terrestrial arthropods occurring on these islands.* 
‘‘The island of Barbados is situated in 13° 4’ North latitude 
and 59° 37’ West longitude, and is the most easterly of the 
Antillean chain. It is about twenty-one miles long by fourteen 
broad, with an area of 166 square miles and a population of 
about 200,000, nine-tenths of which is black. The strata form- 
ing the basement series of Barbados consist of siliceous and 
caleareous sandstones and clays. About six-sevenths of the 
total area of the island is covered by a cap of coral rock which 
is more or less flat, and rises in a series of terraces to Mt. Hillaby 
in the ‘‘Scotland district,’’ which is 1,104 feet in height. An 
area of approximately 6,000 acres at the northern and eastern 
side of the island has received that name on account of its 
peaked and hilly character. The remainder of the island is 
low and flat or, at most, slightly rolling, with few swamps and 
marshes and but two or three fresh water streams of any im- 
1. Canadian Entomologist, Vol. LI, No. 7, 1919, 173-178 and Vol. LI, No. 8, 1919, 
217-220. 
