PSYCHE 
Vol. 56 June, 1949 
No. 2 
ON A SMALL COLLECTION OF FULGOROIDEA 
(HOMOPTERA) FROM THE VIRGIN ISLANDS 1 
By R. G. Fennah 
Entomologist, Food-crop Pests Investigation, 
Windward and Leeward Islands 
The Virgin Islands, which lie between 18°55 N. 64°10 
W. and 18°25 N. 65°00 W., are the eastern outliers of the 
Greater Antilles. St. Thomas, the westernmost, is sepa- 
rated by a channel 30 miles wide from Cnlebra, off Puerto 
Rico, while St. John is 70 miles from the St. Barts group 
to the south. St. Croix, though politically grouped with 
the Virgin Islands, is not considered here as it stands 
apart from the chain of islands between St. Thomas and 
Anegada. 
The natural vegetation of these islands consists to an 
overwhelming extent of dry scrub. At the summit of the 
highest points occur small patches of woodland with the 
characteristics of true mountain forest. 
As far as Fulgoroidea are concerned, the affinities of 
the fauna are unquestionably with that of Puerto Rico, 
and it would seem (in the absence of collections from the 
St. Barts group) that the islands represent the further- 
most limit of some of the Greater Antillean species. 
Of the species discussed below Bothriocera eborea Fenn. 
and 8 bgata furcifera (Horv.) are the only two which 
range southward through the Leeward and Windward 
Islands : Oliarus campestris Fenn., Petrusa marginata 
i Published with a grant from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at 
Harvard College. 
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