Received 30 January 2008; revised 7 July 2008 In memory of Professor Tsuyoshi Fujiwara (1923–2006) Primary: 03C05, 03F25, 08A68, 08A40, 18A23, 18C10, 18D05; Secondary: 03C95, 68Q65.

Received 30 January 2008; revised 7 July 2008 In memory of Professor Tsuyoshi Fujiwara (1923–2006) Primary: 03C05, 03F25, 08A68, 08A40, 18A23, 18C10, 18D05; Secondary: 03C95, 68Q65.

At the International Nickel Company (INCO) nickel refinery in Clydach, Wales, U.K., which has operated since 1901, 365 respiratory cancers, including 85 nasal cancers and 280 lung cancers, have occurred in workers since the 1920s. From 1901 to 1923, incidences of these cancers were high. In 1923, the refining process was changed, eliminating a nickel arsenide, Ni5As2, called orcelite, from the ...

The genus Lacronia Strand, 1942 is herein revised, and a maximum parsimony phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters (30 taxa, 115 characters, 2962 scorings) performed to test its monophyly. As result, made monophyletic by means the inclusion Discocyrtus boraceae B. Soares, 1942, niger Mello-Leitão, 1923 tenuis Roewer, 1917. including those species sister group s. str. inside DRMN-clade...

Three new species of Patrus Aubé, 1838 are described from China: hainanensis sp. nov. Hainan; jiangxiensis Jiangxi; shangchuanensis Guangdong. Eight / subspecies Gyrinidae recorded China for the first time: Metagyrinus vitalisi (Peschet, 1923), Orectochilus argenteolimbatus Peschet, 1923, murinus Régimbart, 1892, haemorrhous (Régimbart, 1892), marginepennis angustilimbus (Ochs, 1925) Yunnan; co...