INTRODUCTION 
A catalogue of animals should serve practically all fields of biology. It 
should be, therefore, as complete a listing of all the records of families, sub- 
families, tribes, genera, species, and varieties as it is possible for the author 
to assemble. The nature of the reference is of the greatest importance. A 
student of zoogeography should be able to find a complete list of the 
regions inhabited by the various species. The student of ecology should be 
able to find references to all that is known about the life history, food 
plants, and other pertinent data. The student of economic entomology 
should be able to check the histories of those species that are suspected of 
being injurious to plants. The plant disease specialist should be able to 
check the current nomenclature of the species which are disease vectors or 
suspected of being disease vectors. Those research workers studying mor- 
phology, physiology, or genetics should be able to trace the development in 
the field of their special interest. And lastly, the student of taxonomy should 
be relieved of the burden of searching for past recordings, and the journals 
which publish taxonomic papers should not have to pay the cost of publish- 
ing the past records and duplicating the synonymy that is already well 
known. Thus it would be necessary only to record synonymy which has 
been developed since the publication of the catalogue. 
In this as in other catalogues of the present series the family is divided 
into genera which are arranged in as nearly a phylogenetic order as our pres- 
ent knowledge will permit. The species are arranged under the genera in 
alphabetic sequence. 
The notes which follow the references are generally self-explanatory, but 
three points may be mentioned here. Such notations as “[described],” 
“[notes],” “[key],” and the like are intended to be suggestive rather than 
precise or exclusive. The notation “[error]” means not accepted in this 
catalogue. Usually the latest published synonymy is accepted, but not 
always. The notation “[comparative note]” is used to designate those refer- 
ences, often of the greatest taxonomic significance, in which two generic, 
specific, or other groups are compared. All references have been checked 
against the original save those marked with an asterisk (*), which have been 
accepted from reliable sources. Every effort has been made to have the 
references full and complete and to give an indication of the character of the 
data contained. Where the writer knows that reprints have been issued with 
different pagination, this is indicated in parentheses following the page 
numbers of the original. In a few cases, where the matter has been reprinted 
under a different title with different pagination, separate references are 
given. Where authentic editions have been republished these have been 
indicated by separate references. Genera established without included 
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