Eight apterous species of the paederine genus Lathrobium Gravenhorst, 1802 from the Chinese province Sichuan are described, illustrated, and distinguished from closely related and/or geographically close congeners: Lathrobium erlangense Peng & Li sp. n. (Erlang Shan), Lathrobium blandum Peng & Li sp. n. (Labahe N. R.), Lathrobium yelense Peng & Li sp. n. (Yele), Lathrobium obscurum Peng & Li sp...

Hao-Ping Liu, Chih-Ching Wu and Yu-Sun Chang* Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang Ming University, Shih-Pai, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Proteomics Core Laboratory of Chang Gung Molecular Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China and Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Tao...

Paederus (Gnathopaederus) xuei Peng & Li sp. n. (Yunnan: Dawei Shan) and P. (G.) cheni Peng & Li sp. n. (Hunan: Badagong Shan) are described and illustrated. Additional records of P. (G.) bursavacua Willers, 2001, P. (G.) szechuanus (Chapin, 1927) and P. (G.) yunnanensis Willers, 2001 are reported.

Yi Zhun Zhu, Chew Lan Chong, Shin Chet Chuah, Shan Hong Huang, Huey Shan Nai, How Teng Tong, Matt Whiteman, and Philip K. Moore National University of Singapore Cardiovascular Biology Research Group and Department of Pharmacology, National University of Singapore; Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University; Emergency Department, National University Hospital; and Department...

Author details Surgery, the Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, QingDao University, QingDao 266003, R. P. China. Pathology, the Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, QingDao University, QingDao, Shan Dong Province 266003, P. R. China. Molecular Biology, the Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, QingDao University, QingDao, Shan Dong Province 266003, P. R. China. Hepatobiliary surgery, T...

_ Two specimens of rat-traps in use by Shan villagers in the Northern Shan States of ?Burma have been sent me by Major H. F. L. Duckworth, i.m.d., Civil Surgeon and District Health Officer, Northern Shan States. These *raps are of great interest because of their ingenuity and simplicity of construction. They can be made up in any bamboo-growing country at next to no cost because they are constr...

This paper investigates an alternative way of using the Stein-Chen method in Poisson approximations. There are three principal bounds stated in terms of reduced Palm probabilities for general point processes. The rst two are for the accuracy of Poisson random variable approximation to the distribution of the number of points in a point process with respect to the total variation metric and Wass...