Sugar-cane Moth Borers (Diatraea spp.) in British Guiana

The writer had exceptional opportunities for studying sugar-cane moth borers while engaged as entomologist to one of the most progressive cane-growing concerns in British Guiana from September 1922 until January 1925. The observations and data that follow refer to some three thousand acres of typical cultivation situated on the west bank of the Berbice River, nearly opposite the town of New Amsterdam, in which locality the borer pest probably reaches its maximum in destructiveness.

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Descriptions and Records of parasitic Hymenoptera from British Guiana and the West Indies

Bulletin of Entomological Research ◽

10.1017/s0007485300035252 ◽

1931 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 267-277 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

J. G. Myers

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Sugar Cane ◽

West Indies ◽

British Museum ◽

Economic Importance ◽

The West ◽

British Guiana ◽

Parasitic Hymenoptera ◽

Imperial Institute

The following notes are based almost entirely upon actual rearing records, the hosts in most cases being insects of economic importance. The greatest attention has been paid to parasites of the small moth-borers of sugar-cane (Diatraea spp.). The systematic work has been done entirely at the British Museum and would have been impossible without the facilities in literature and collections there, and the great help of Mr. D. S. Wilkinson and Dr. C. Ferrière, of the Imperial Institute of Entomology. Types of new species are in the British Museum.

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Aristocratic Burial-Mound Bliznets-2 on the West Bank of the Dnieper above the Rapids

Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia ◽

10.1163/157005711x595121 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 169-224

Author(s):

Vladimir Romashko ◽

Sergeï Skorÿï

Keyword(s):

West Bank ◽

Structural Features ◽

Burial Mound ◽

The West ◽

Funerary Monuments ◽

The North ◽

History Of ◽

Burial Mounds ◽

The Town

Abstract This article is devoted to the Bliznets-2 Burial-mound which is one of the largest Scythian funerary monuments of the 5th century BC and which was excavated on the southern edge of the town of Dnepropetrovsk in 2007. Along with the structural features of the burial-mound, the funerary rite and range of artefacts discovered in it are analysed. The role of the monument among the Scythian élite burial-mounds in the North Pontic region is defined and certain aspects of the dynastic history of the Scythians are discussed.

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