PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM by the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM Vol. 95 Washington: 1945 No. 3184 THE FULGOROIDEA, OR LANTERNFLIES, OF TRINIDAD AND ADJACENT PARTS OF SOUTH AMERICA By R. G. Fennah 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 Agi-iculture 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 oifer 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. E. 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. 5S7347 — 44 1 411
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