A revisionary checklist of the Sesiini of southern Africa is presented. All known genera of the region and their type species are redescribed. The following genera are placed in Sesiini for the first time: Alonina Walker, 1856; Anaudia Wallengren, 1863; Austrosetia Felder & Felder, 1874; Megalosphecia Le Cerf, 1916 and Vespanthedon Le Cerf, 1917. The genera Cicinnoscelis Holland, 1893 rev. stat...

The three heteronemertean nominal species Ascaris longissima Gunnerus, 1770, Borlasia angliae Oken, 1815, and Nemertes borlasii Cuvier, 1816 have been considered as synonymous, denoting the same to which valid name Lineus longissimus (Gunnerus, 1770) has applied. These are type of genus-group names Sowerby, 1806, Cuver, 1816, respectively, in turn genera family-group Lineidae McIntosh, 1874, Bo...

was extensively prevalent in European Russia, Poland, and Central Europe, and it spread over a considerable portion of Western, and some parts of Southern Europe, including Bosnia, the Austrian provinces on the eastern coast of the Adriatic, several parts of northern Italy and of the Italian coast on the Mediterranean. The disease is reported to have ceased in Russia in January 1874; it was ser...