Four Moths of the Family Limacodidae injurious to Coconut Palms

1930 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. T. Tams
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Family ◽  
Imperial Institute

Of the four moths dealt with in this paper, three are known to damage coconut palms in Celebes, and the fourth behaves similarly in the Gold Coast. Three of the species are here described as new. The opportunity has been taken to figure the larvae as well as the imagines of the Celebes species, and to include figures of Orthocraspeda catenatus, Snellen, of which two larvae and a pair of imagines were received with the other Celebes material. The short descriptions of the larvae are taken, with slight modifications, from Mr. A. Reyne's letter which accompanied the specimens. All the material concerned has been generously presented to the British Museum (Natural History) by the Director of the Imperial Institute of Entomology.

Occurrence of a Larval Cestode in the Red Locust Nomadacris septemfasciata Serv

Parasitology ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-555
Author(s):  
A. M. Gwynn ◽  
A. G. Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Microscopic Examination ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nomadacris Septemfasciata ◽  
Red Locust ◽  
Imperial Institute ◽  
First Time

A Parasite which proves to be the cysticercoid of a Cestode was discovered by one of us (A. M. G.) in the course of work on the locust problem in British Chad in 1933–4. The material was sent to the Imperial Institute of Entomology, London, where the other author (A. G. H.) undertook the microscopic examination, measurement and description of the specimens and determined their nature. This is the first time a Cestode larva has been recorded in Acrididae and, as far as can be ascertained, in Orthoptera generally. The original slides have been deposited at the British Museum (Natural History).

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.

VII.—Note on Zieten's Type-Specimens of Ammonites polygonius and Ammonites discoides

1900 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 561-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. C. Crick
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
The Other ◽  
Type Specimens

The presence of Zieten's type-specimen of Ammonites calcar in the British Museum (Natural History) among some fossils which were bought of Dr. Bruckmann naturally suggested an examination of the other fossil Cephalopoda obtained from the same source, in the hope of finding other type-specimens. Thus far, the result of this examination has been the discovery of two more of Zieten's types; these are the type-specimens of (i) Ammonites polygonius and (ii) Ammonites discoides.

VII. On the Scelidothere (Scelidotherium leptocephalum, Owen)

1857 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 101-110 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The Other ◽  
Extinct Species ◽  
Northern Patagonia ◽  
History Of ◽  
Peculiar Character ◽  
Osseous System

The extinct species of large terrestrial Sloth, indicated by the above name, was first made known by portions of its fossil skeleton discovered by Charles Darwin, Esq., F. R. S., at Punta Alta, Northern Patagonia, which were described by me in the chapters of the Appendix to the ‘Natural History of the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle,’ treating of the “Fossil Mammalia” collected during that voyage. The subsequent acquisition by the British Museum of the collection of Fossil Mammalia brought from the pleistocene beds, Buenos Ayres, by M. Bravard, has given further evidence of the generic distinction of the Scelidothere from the other Gravigrades of the Bruta phylophaga , and has supplied important characters of the osseous system, and especially of the skull, which the fragments from the hard consolidated gravel of Punta Alta did not afford. The best portion of the cranium from the latter locality wanted the facial part anterior to the orbit, and the greater part of the upper walls; sufficient, however, remained to indicate the peculiar character of its slender proportions, and hence the name leptocephalum proposed for the species.

Three new Moths (Agrotidae, Pyralidae) of Economic Importance

1938 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. T. Tams
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
Imperial Institute

The material here described has been received by the Imperial Institute of Entomology, and I am indebted to Sir Guy Marshall for the opportunity of studying it. The types have been presented to the British Museum (Natural History).

A note on the subfamily Chantiinae Pritchard and Baker (Acari: Phytoseiidae)

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (10) ◽  
pp. 2574-2574 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Chant ◽  
E. Yoshida-Shaul
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The Family

We recently proposed a subfamily, Chantiinae Pritchard and Baker, 1962, containing the genera Chantia Pritchard and Baker, 1962 and Diadromus Athias-Henriot, 1960 in the family Phytoseiidae (Chant and Yoshida-Shaul 1986). We have since learned that the genus group name Diadromus Athias-Henriot, 1960 is preoccupied by Diadromus Wesmael (1844) (Insecta: Hymenoptera). The name Chanteius Wainstein, 1962, which was treated in our 1986 paper as a junior objective synonym of Diadromus Athias-Henriot, 1960, therefore becomes the valid name for this genus. In view of this change in nomenclature, the two genera in the subfamily Chantiinae as proposed in our 1986 paper are Chantia Pritchard and Baker and Chanteius Wainstein.We are grateful to Dr. Ian Gauld of the British Museum (Natural History) for having brought this homonymy to our attention.

The Geological Age of the Cromer Forest Bed

1951 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Augusto Azzaroli
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The Other ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Faunal Assemblage ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Modern Species ◽  
Geological Age ◽  
Primitive Species

The present writer has had recently the opportunity to carry out a revision of the deer of the Cromer Forest Bed series of East Anglia. The entire work is to be published in the Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). The stratigraphical conclusions will be summarized here.The occurrence of relatively archaic species together with more modern species in the Forest Bed fauna has puzzled many palaeontologists. Whereas the older authors concluded that it was wholly Pliocene (Reid, 1890, with bibliography) or partially or totally derived (Dubois, 1905), more recently a tendency has become prevalent to attribute the whole fauna to the early Pleistocene, and to explain the more archaic species as relics (Osborn, 1922; Zeuner, 1945). It may be shown that all these interpretations are untenable.A Pliocene age is ruled out by the presence of species which immigrated into Europe after the close of the Villafranchian. On the other hand, the older representatives, once attributed to the Pliocene but actually of Upper Villafranchian age, do not constitute isolated relics: an entire faunal assemblage characteristic of that epoch is present. Moreover, primitive species occur in the Forest Bed fauna together with their more advanced descendants, and the fauna is richer in species than in any other locality.

On Certain Palaeozoic Bryozoa in the British Museum (Natural History)

1930 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 178-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. P. Nekhoroshev
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The Other ◽  
Altai Mountains ◽  
Intensive Study ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Apparent Absence ◽  
European Species ◽  
American Authors

While working for several years on Palaeozoic Bryozoa with the aim of establishing the Palaeozoic stratigraphy of the Altai Mountains on the basis of the Bryozoan faunas, I have always been aware of a great contradiction. The works of American authors showed clearly that the stratigraphic importance of the Bryozoa is not inferior to that of any other group of fossils, whilst in the works of newer European authors the Palaeozoic Bryozoa were not only deprived of any significant rôle, but often even quite ignored. Owing to this, there arose a question whether the Palaeozoic Bryozoa have a universal distribution like, for instance, the Brachiopoda; or whether there is in North America a special Bryozoan fauna of stratigraphic importance locally, but absent from other parts of the globe. The study of the Siberian Palaeozoic Bryozoa showed a number of forms so far known only from North America, and this suggested that the apparent absence of “American” forms in the other parts of the globe is owing to the lack of intensive study given to the Palaeozoic Bryozoan faunas outside North America. Through the kindness of Dr. Nalivkin, who handed over to me several Bryozoa collected by him in the Middle Devonian of Germany, I was able to confirm this suggestion and I decided to examine, if possible, the existing collections of Palaeozoic Bryozoa of Europe. This appeared the more necessary because, although Palaeozoic Bryozoa were originally described by European authors, yet the species described by them were quite ignored by later American writers. Clearly then, if a comparison of the European with the American Palaeozoic Bryozoa were made, it would be likely that the trivial names of some American species would be replaced by the prior trivial names of European species. To make this comparison, I visited during the winter of 1928–1929 some of the most important museums of Europe, in which I could find either the type specimens of the European Bryozoa, or merely rich collections of topotypes. A revision of the material contained in the museums of Berlin, Munich, Bonn, Prague, Paris and London wholly confirmed my view, namely, that the “American” forms of Palaeozoic Bryozoa were universally distributed, but hitherto had been described and figured, often quite incorrectly, as distinct genera.

The Lorisoid GenusArctocebus: Observations Based on the Type Material

1946 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. C. Osman Hill
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Original Description ◽  
The Other ◽  
History Museum ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Primate Anatomy ◽  
The University ◽  
A New Species

Instudying the literature relating to that little-known prosimian, the Angwántibo—with a view to incorporating the main facts known about it in a comprehensive work on primate anatomy at present in preparation—I had occasion to consult the original description of the species by J. A. Smith (1860). I there discovered that the type was a spirit specimen (an “adult” male) which was received in Edinburgh, along with a second male, from Old Calabar. There is some confusion in the literature as to the fate of these specimens and this should, I think, be cleared up. Both specimens were procured in 1859 by Rev. A. Robb, one being sent, indirectly, to Smith and the other to Andrew Murray. Smith recognized in his specimen something new and accordingly described it as a new species of Potto, placing it in Bennett's genusPerodicticusasP. calabarensis. He gave an assurance of his intention of depositing the type in the Natural History Museum of the University of Edinburgh, but later sent it to his friend Carruthers at the British Museum for comparison with Bennett's type ofPerodicticus potto. Some useful observations were made upon it by Carruthers and incorporated as an addendum to Smith's paper. The specimen was evidently returned to Edinburgh and found its way to the University, but in 1860 it was transferred, with other material, to the Edinburgh Industrial Museum (since 1904 the Royal Scottish Museum).With the kind assistance of Professor J. Ritchie I have succeeded in tracing it, and with the permission of Dr D. A. Allan, Director of the Museum, and the helpful co-operation of Dr A. C. Stephen, Keeper of Natural History, I have had the privilege of studying it.

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