THE HOMOPTERA OF ALASKA 



BY WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD 

 INTRODUCTION 



THE insects of the suborder Homoptera found in Alaska, in 

 comparison with those in the other orders taken by the Harri- 

 man Expedition, are few in number and somewhat disappoint- 

 ing, although they add considerably to our knowledge of the 

 Alaska fauna. Few species of rhynchotous insects have been 

 recorded from this territory, and our knowledge is most meager. 



Dr. C. Stal, in a paper entitled Beitrag zur Hemipteren- 

 Fauna Siberiens und des Russischen Nord-Amerika,' pub- 

 lished in 1858, l was the first to record any species from 

 Alaska. 



In this contribution Dr. Stal enumerated, in all, 113 species, 

 of which only thirteen came from Alaska, and nearly all 

 of these were collected at Sitka. Substantially, this was all 

 that was known of the fauna up to the date of the Harriman 

 Expedition. Some of the Rhynchota taken by the Expedition 

 have already been reported upon : (i) The Heteroptera, by O. 

 Heideman; (2) the Psyllidae, by E. A. Schwarz; and (3) the 



1 Stettin, ent. Zeitg., xix, 1858. 



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