PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
issued 4% 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 
Vol. 95 3 Washington: 1945 No. 3184 
THE FULGOROIDEA, OR LANTERNFLIES, OF TRINIDAD 
AND ADJACENT PARTS OF SOUTH AMERICA 
By R. G. Fennan 
THE major portion of the material with which the present report 
is concerned was collected in Trinidad by the writer partly during 
occasional visits dating from 1937 but chiefly between April 1942 and 
March 1943. To this was added a small but very interesting group 
from the collection of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, 
built up since 1933, and a few specimens in an imperfect condition 
from an older collection originally belonging to the former Imperial 
Department of Agriculture for the British West Indies. Types, 
paratypes, or representative material of species discussed have been 
deposited in the United States National Museum (U.S.N.M.) and 
the British Museum of Natural History (B.M.N.H.) as stated under 
each. Certain paratypes have also been placed in the Museum of Com- 
parative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., and in the collection of the 
Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad. 
The warmest thanks of the writer are due to Dr. A. M. Adamson, 
professor of zoology at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, 
for his ready offer of the material in his charge for the present study, 
and to Dr. E. McC. Callan, lecturer in zoology, for gifts of specimens 
from time to time. For his constant assistance in the naming of 
species the writer is deeply indebted to W. KE. China, of the British 
Museum. Mr. China has examined more than half the species and 
has commented on notes and drawings submitted to him from time 
_to time, and his remarks are added below the species to which they 
refer. 
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