The xanthid genus Glyptoxanthus A. Milne-Edwards, 1879, known from the tropical eastern Pacific, western and eastern Atlantic, and the Red Sea, is revised as part of an ongoing revision of the subfamily Euxanthinae Alcock, 1898. Analysis of morphological characters shows that Glyptoxanthus must be excluded from the subfamily Euxanthinae and placed in a distinct subfamily, Glyptoxanthinae nov. s...

In the present study, the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) fauna is summarized. It is based on a detailed study of all available published data and new material collected. In total 99 species belonging to 8 genera are from Iran: Apanteles Förster, 1862 (36 species), Cotesia Cameron, 1891 (34 species), Deuterixys Mason, 1981 (1 species), Diolcogaster Ashmead, 1900 (4 species), Mi...

The Philippines is an archipelago of about 7000 islands, with an area about the size of England, situated just above the equator in Southeast Asia. It has a population of 70 million. The Philippines has had extensive commercial and social contact with Asian neighbors, specifically the Chinese, even before the 377 years of Spanish colonization from 1521 to 1898 and the 48 years of American rule ...

Babington, B. G. ; S.B., 1856, 89 ; 1857-8, 73 ; 1858-9, 73 ; O.S., 1859-60, 1; 1860-1, 129 ; 1863-4, 160 ; 1863-4, 168 ; 1863-4, 241 ; 1864-5, 278 Ballard, Edward; O.S., 1875-6, 30; N.S., 1887-8, 183 Barker, T. Herbert ; S.R., 1858, 79 Barraut, A. R. ; O.S., 1867-8, 183 Barrington-Kennett, Y. ; U.S., 1881, (554 Bell, A. N. ; O.S., 1863-4, 225 Berry, F. H. ; N.S., 1899-1900, 117 Bertillon, Jacq...

THE incrimination of the trypanosome as the cause of sleeping sickness and the discovery of the transmission of the parasite by the tsetse fly was the result of studies carried out in Uganda by Castellani, Bruce, Nabarro and others.' While there is no question of the importance of their elucidation of the relation between the disease, the parasite and the vector, by clinical, laboratory, and fi...

This study concerns the diplopod genus Eucampesmella Schubart, 1955, widespread in Brazil. After this work, includes 12 valid species, and three incertae sedis: E. pugiuncula (Schubart, 1946), brunnea Kraus, 1959 schubarti 1957. The type-species, tricuspis (Attems, 1931), is redescribed based on holotype, following six new Brazilian species are added: macunaima sp. nov. from states of Rondônia,...