Observations on some Hemiptera 



taken in Florida in the spring of 1908 



By Edward P. VanDuzee 



In the present paper I propose to enumerate the Hemip- 

 tera taken by me during a four week's collecting trip in Florida 

 in the months of April and May 1908. To the locality notes 

 given under each species I have added synonymical and mis- 

 cellaneous observations on many of the forms and descriptions 

 of a few new genera and species. Without question Florida 

 has always been a favorite collecting ground for the insect 

 hunter and many species have been credited to that state in the 

 descriptive works of the earlier entomologists, but so far as the 

 Hemiptera are concerned no systematic work has been done 

 there until quite recently. The pioneer worker in this field 

 was Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson who for a number of years 

 past has spent a considerable proportion of her winters collect- 

 ing insects at various localities in that state. She is an enthu- 

 siastic and diligent worker and has brought to li^ht a large 

 number of new species, some of them of great interest and 

 rarity. I had hoped she could be induced to publish a list of 

 her captures in the Hemiptera prior to the appearance of this 

 paper but other engagements have rendered this impossible, so 

 she has very kindly sent me a list of the species taken by her 

 with full permission to make such use of these notes as I wished; 

 a privilege of which I have availed myself many times in the 

 following pages. Mrs. Slosson's list includes many forms not 

 taken by me and it is hoped that she will later give us a report 

 on these with annotations on other forms which, owing to the 

 hasty and superficial nature of my work in Florida, I was 

 obliged to include with little more than a notice of their capture. 



On the present trip I was accompanied by my brother Mil- 

 lard C. VanDuzee who was collecting the Hymenoptera, Dip- 

 tera and Coleoptera, while my time was almost entirely devoted 



