scholarly journals Notes on African blood-sucking midges (Family Chironomidae, Sub-family Ceratopogoninae), with descriptions of new species

1912 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest E. Austen
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
Original Material ◽  
Blood Sucking

The identity of Culicoides habereri, Becker, with C. grahamii, Austen, is conclusively established as the result of a comparison of the typical series of the former with the type and para-types of the latter, which are preserved in the British Museum (Natural History). For the opportunity of making this comparison and thus proving the synonymy given above, the present writer is indebted to Dr. Kurt Lampert, of the Königl. Naturaliensammlung, Stuttgart, where the original material of C. habereri is preserved; with the most obliging courtesy Dr. Lampert not only forwarded for comparison the typical series described by Becker, but also presented three para-types of C. habereri to our National Collection.

scholarly journals New African Tabanidae.—Part III

1912 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-416
Author(s):  
Ernest E. Austen
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Blood Sucking

The types of the eight new species described in the present instalment are in the British Museum (Natural History). The following list shows at a glance the countries in which these additions to our knowledge of the blood-sucking flies of Africa have been obtained.

III.—A Synopsis of the Remains of Ganoid Fishes from the Cambridge Greensand

1895 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 207-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Smith Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Detailed Comparison ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
The Past ◽  
Private Collection ◽  
Definition Of

The remains of fishes discovered in the Cambridge Greensand are all very fragmentary, and have not hitherto been subjected to the detailed comparison with other Cretaceous Ichthyolites which their interesting stratigraphical position renders desirable. Many specimens, however, are capable of at least generic determination, while many others are sufficiently characteristic fragments for the definition of the species. The present writer has thus been much interested during the past few years in studying collections of these fossils, and the following notes embody some of the results in reference to the ganoid fishes. The British Museum (Natural History) having recently acquired the collection made from the Cambridge Greensand by Mr. Thomas Jesson, F.G.S., nearly all the known species are now represented here; but the writer has also availed himself of the privilege of making use of the fine series in the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge, and the Philosophical Society's Museum, York, thanks to the kindness of Professor McKenny Hughes, Mr. Henry Woods, and Mr. H. M. Platnauer. Mr. James Carter, M.R.C.S., has also kindly lent some Pycnodont jaws from his private collection

scholarly journals VI.—Note on the Classification of the Ichthyopterygia (with a Notice of Two New Species)

1888 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 309-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Lydekker
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Two New Species

Having devoted several weeks to the study of the magnificent collection of the remains of Ichthyopterygians preserved in the British Museum (Natural History), I purpose on this occasion to give a brief notice of some of the conclusions at which I have arrived, since a considerable interval will elapse before the publication of that part of the Museum “Catalogue of Fossil Eeptilia” in which my observations will be more fully recorded.

A New Austromenopon (Menoponidae-Mallophaga) Parasitizing Shearwaters (Puffinus-Procellariformes)

1960 ◽  
Vol 92 (11) ◽  
pp. 817-819
Author(s):  
Robert L. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Museum Study ◽  
The U.S

A distinctive new species of Austromenopon from two species of shearwaters, Puffinus kuhlii (Scopoli) and Puffinus leucomelas (Temminick), is described herein. The new species is based on specimens collected from museum study skins and also from material lent to me by Dr. Theresa Clay, British Museum (Natural History) and the U.S. National Museum. I am indebted to Dr. Clay for the opportunity to examine material from the Meinertzhagen collection and to Dr. K. C. Emerson for reviewing this manuscript.

NOTES ON CERTAIN OF WALSINGHAM'S SPECIES OF OIDAEMATOPHORUS WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES (PTEROPHORIDAE)

1938 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 128-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. McDunnough
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Group I ◽  
Slide Material

For some time I have doubted whether the existing determinations of certain of Walsingham's species of plumes, based on the revision of this family by Barnes and Lindsey, were correct. Through the kind offices of Messrs. Tams and Stringer of the British Museum of Natural History I have been furnished with drawings of the left claspers of the male genitalia of a number of Walsingham's types in the genus Oidaematophorus; a study of these drawings in connection with my own slide material has confirmed my suspicions and shown that in at least two cases there had been misidentifications by the above-mentioned authors. With a view to clarifying the situation somewhat in this extremely difficult group I offer the following notes.

Monocystid gregarines of Nigerian earthworms. I. Adelphocystis aeikineta gen.nov., sp.nov. from the coelom of Keffia variabilis Clausen, 1963

Parasitology ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. E. G. Cox
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Peristaltic Motion ◽  
Morphological Basis ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

Adelphocystis aeikineta, a new species of monocystid gregarine, is found in the coelom of the earthworm Keffia variabilis in which the trophozoites occur in large numbers in permanently associated pairs. They are large, measuring 750–1500, μm in length, and exhibit continual peristaltic motion. The ectosarc of the trophozoite is markedly striated and there is no evidence of any anterior differentiation. The gametocytes are rounded and the presumed bipolar sporocysts measure 12–14·5 μm in length. Some associated pairs occur in groups enclosed in a membrane and there is evidence that gametocytes may form under these conditions. A. aeikineta is placed in the subfamily Zygocystinae and separated from Zygocystis on its elongate shape. The site of infection of this gregarine, and others recently described, suggests that the morphological basis on which the family Monocystidae is divided into subfamilies and genera is inadequate and a sounder classification should take into account these sites of infection.The material on which this paper is based was collected while I was in receipt of a Wellcome Trust Travelling Grant, and I wish to thank the Trust for this support. It is also a pleasure to thank Mr R. W. Sims of the British Museum (Natural History) who identified the earthworms, Dr Keith Vickerman who helped me to collect them and Mr R. B. Freeman who advised me on the nomenclature.

New African Tabanidae.—Part IV.

1914 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-300
Author(s):  
Ernest E. Austen
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum

The types of the seven new species described in the following pages are in the British Museum (Natural History). The subjoined list shows the countries in which the species have been obtained.

On Styphlodora elegans n.sp. and Styphlodora compactum n.sp., trematode parasites of Python reticulatus in Malaya, with a key to the species of the genus Styphlodora Looss, 1899

Parasitology ◽  
1941 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Dawes
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Entire Collection ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Trematode Parasites

Numerous specimens of a trematode which has proved to be a new species were collected from the kidneys of 'Ular sawa’ (Python reticulatus) at Alor Star and at Kedah, Malaya, by Mr G. B. Purvis, F.R.C.V.S. One batch comprises about 350 specimens, another one more than 150, and the entire collection of five batches exceeds 600 specimens. For this new species the name Styphlodora elegans is proposed. Mr Purvis also collected a single specimen of what seems to be a second new species from the stomach of the python at Alor Star, and for this the name Styphlodora compactum is proposed. Type specimens of the two new species are lodged in the British Museum (Natural History), London.

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