MAR ?i 1909 
The Ohio U^atiiialist, 
PUBLISHED BY 
The Biological Club of the Ohio State University. 
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NEW Yi 
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Volume IX. 
MARCH, 1909. 
No. 5. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Osborn— Notes on Guatemalan Hemiptera with Descriptions of a Few New Species... 457 
McCray — Removal of Showy Paris of Flowers as Affecting Fruit and Seed Production 46G 
Iloor>—Distribution of the Woody Plants of Ohio. 469 
McCray—M eetii g of the Biological Club.!. 475 
NOTES ON GUATEMALAN HEMIPTERA WITH 
DESCRIPTIONS OF A FEW NEW SPECIES. 
Herbert Osborn. 
During the winter of 1905 Prof. J. S. Hine made a collecting 
trip in Guatemala and the Hemiptera collected, except the 
aquatics, have been turned over to me. As the material in this 
collection adds new localities for many of the species recorded 
in the Biologia Centrali Americana, in some instances entirely 
new records for the Central American region, and also some few 
species that appear to be new to science, it seems desirable to 
give a list of all the species so far as determined with the records 
of the localities where collected and such notes on distribution 
as may add to our knowledge of the geographical range of the 
species. The localities worked by Prof. Hine were Puerto Bar¬ 
rios near the coast and Morales, Los Amates, Gaulan, for the 
Atlantic slope; and Guatemala City, Amatitlan, Santa Lucia, 
Mazatenango, San Jose, for the Pacific slope. Considering the 
time during which the collections were made and that quite a 
number of species are still undetermined, this list must be con¬ 
sidered as quite extended particularly if we note that Hemiptera 
were only one group in which collections were made. 
As it is but a few years since the appearance of the “ Biologia” 
articles on Hemiptera of this region, it seems unnecessary to 
attempt a full bibliography and only such citations of references 
or svnonomy are given as seem necessary to properly locate 
the species or to correct what appear to be erroneous references 
in previous articles. The work in the ‘‘ Biologia” seems to have 
been done with too little regard to determination of the previously 
described forms and there is a large number of new species des¬ 
cribed which will probably have^to be reduced to synonyms 
when the fauna is more carefully worked. 
457 
