Rhagovelia danpolhemi sp. nov., from the Caribbean Slope of Costa Rica and R. springerae sp. nov., from the northern portion of the country, are described, illustrated, compared with similar species, and included in a key to species recorded from the country. Rhagovelia calopa Drake & Harris, R. spinosa Gould, and R. tantilla Drake & Harris are recorded for the first time from Costa Rica. New p...

The identity of Acanthosoma vicinum Uhler, 1861 (type species of the monotypic genus Grossaria Kumar, 1974) is clarified based on reexamination of the lectotype. The following new combination and new subjective synonymies are proposed: Elasmucha Stål, 1864 = Grossaria Kumar, 1974, syn. nov.; Elasmucha vicina (Uhler, 1861), comb. nov. (transferred from Acanthosoma) = Elasmucha dorsalis (Jakovlev...

Oncerotrachelus amazonensis sp. nov. and O. paraconformis sp. nov. from Amazonas, Brazil, are described. Oncerotrachelus conformis Uhler is recorded for the first time from Brazil and a description of male genitalia of this species is provided.

The Chinese mainland species of the leafhopper genus Nephotettix Matsumura (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Chiasmini) (Nephotettix cincticeps (Uhler), Nephotettix malayanus Ishihara & Kawase, Nephotettix nigropictus (Stål), Nephotettix parvus Ishihara & Kawase rec. n., and Nephotettix virescens (Distant)) are reviewed. This genus is redescribed. Variation is described and illustrated...

The problem of packing ellipsoids of different sizes and shapes into an ellipsoidal container so as to minimize a measure of overlap between ellipsoids is considered. A bilevel optimization formulation is given, together with an algorithm for the general case and a simpler algorithm for the special case in which all ellipsoids are in fact spheres. Convergence results are proved and computationa...

Corrigendum to “Nk6, a novel Drosophila homeobox gene regulated by vnd” [Mech. Dev. 116 (2002) 105–116] Jay Uhler, James Garbern, Li Yang, John Kamholz, Dervla M. Mellerick* Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Department of Neurology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State Un...

Lorenz Halbeisen, ETH Z urich Norbert Hungerb uhler, University of Freiburg (Germany) Abstract We give explicit non-recursive formulas to compute the Josephus-numbers j(n; 2; i) and j(n; 3; i) and explicit upper and lower bounds for j(n; k; i) (where k 4) which di er by 2k 2 (for k = 4 the bounds are even better). Furthermore we present a new fast algorithm to calculate j(n; k; i) which is ba...