REPORT ON CERTAIN FAMILIES OF 
HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA 
Collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition 
from the University of Iowa in 1918 
H. G. BARBER 
Roselle, N. J. 
Through the courtesy of Professor Dayton Stoner I have 
been privileged to study certain families of the Hemiptera- 
Heteroptera taken by the Iowa Expedition to Barbados and 
Antigua Islands in the West Indies during the summer of 1918. 
Only the following five families were sumbitted to me: Coreide, 
Pyrrhocoride, Lygwide, Reduvude, and Tingide. 
The collection, though small in number of species represent- 
ed, contains some long series which have been of great assist- 
ance in helping to trace the synonymy of several doubtful forms. 
Only one species, Doldina antiguensis, is new. None of the 
others are endemic to these particular islands but have a more 
or less wide distribution throughout most of the other islands 
of both the Lesser and Greater Antilles. In fact most of them 
are common continental species, the majority ranging from 
northern South America through Central America and Mexico 
to the southern United States. 
Family Coreide 
Phthia picta Drury 
1770. Phthia picta Drury, Ill. Nat. Hist. 107, Pl. 45, Fig. 1. 
Six specimens from Barbados. This is a widely distributed 
and common species in the neotropical realm where it is often 
injurious in gardens. Its extreme variability has given rise to 
a long synonymical list (MeAtee Bull. Brklyn. Ent. Soe. XIV, 
13, 1919.) Readily distinguished from the larger and more 
brightly colored lunata Fab., the only other species likely to be 
found in the West Indies, P. picta has been recorded from the 
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