PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 

 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol. 105 Washington : 1955 No. 3350 



LANTERNFLIES OF THE FAMILY ISSIDAE OF THE LESSER 

 ANTILLES (HOMOPTERA: FULGOROIDEA) 



By R. G. Fennah^ 



This report is concerned primarily with the family Issidae as rep- 

 resented in the Lesser Antilles, but opportunity has been taken to 

 comment on a few species of interest from other parts of the Caribbean 

 area. The material on which this study has been based, with only one 

 or two exceptions, was collected by the writer. Holotype and allotype 

 specimens of new species described have been deposited in the U. S. 

 National Museum. 



The writer's thanks are tendered to the authorities of the U. S. 

 National Museum and, in particular, to Dr. D. A. Young, of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, for providing facilities for study and 

 assistance whenever it was needed. This work was carried out during 

 the tenure of a fellowship awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim 

 Memorial Foundation. 



History and zoogeography 



The first member of the group to be recorded from the Lesser Ajitilles 

 was Acanalonia viriditerminata,^ which Lethierry described in 1881 



•Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad, B. W. I. 



> The writer has stated his reasons elsewhere for placing Aconaloma in the family Issidae (Trans. Ent. 

 See. London, vol. 105, pt. 19, p. 471, 1954). 



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