scholarly journals X.—On the Genus Plutonides (non Plutonia) from the Cambrian Rocks of St. David's

1895 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 230-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
New Genus ◽  
British Museum ◽  
British Association ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Unusual Position ◽  
Generic Term ◽  
Distinct Genus ◽  
The One ◽  
First Time

Quite recently, Mr. B. B. Woodward, F.G.S., of the British Museum (Natural History), called my attention, for the first time, to the fact that the name Plutonia, which I adopted for a genus of Trilobites in 1868, had previously been used by Stabile (Atti. Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. vii, p. 121, 1864) for a genus of Mollusca. As Stabile's generic term has therefore a priority of four years it is necessary that I should rename the Trilobite, and it has been suggested to me by Mr. Belinfante, B.Sc., Assist. Sec. Geol. Soc., that Plutonides would be the most suitable term and the one least likely to lead to confusion. In the Report of the British Association for 1868, p. 69, where the genus is first mentioned, after describing the beds in which it occurs I refer to it as follows: “The new genus, for which the author proposes the name Plutonia, is only known to occur in these beds. This remarkable fossil is of very large size, equalling, indeed, in this respect Paradoxides Davidis. It is, perhaps, also more nearly allied to the genus Paradoxides than to any other known, but its peculiar character of being covered all over with very strong tubercles, associated with an unusual position for the eye suture, and straight, very long thoracic pleuræ, is sufficient to stamp it a new and distinct genus.”.

scholarly journals I.—On large Terrestrial Saurians from the Rhætio Beds of Wedmork Hill, described as Avalonia Sanfordi and Picrodon Herveyi

1898 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. G. Seeley
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Fossil Bones

In 1894 Mr. W. A. Sanford described, in the Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological Society (vol. xl, 1894, p. 234), the geological circumstances of the discovery of a large fossil reptile. The fossil bones were found by the Eev. Sydenham H. A. Hervey and himself in the Rhætic beds in the parish of Wedmore, in the Vale of Glastonbury; and compared to Megalosaurus in its large size and carnivorous character. The remains were generously presented to the British Museum (Natural History) at South Kensington. I have now to redeem a promise made by Mr. Sanford in his paper that I would name and describe the specimens.

On a new tick from British Somaliland

Parasitology ◽  
1938 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Whittick
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Structural Difference ◽  
British Museum ◽  
North African ◽  
African Species ◽  
The North ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Geographical Race

A Collection of ticks from British Somaliland recently sent to the British Museum (Natural History) contained specimens of a species of Ornithodoros unlike any in the national collection and (from the appearance of the integument) related to the North African species O. foleyi Parrot (from Algeria) and O. delanoëi Roubaud & Colas-Belcour (from Morocco). The late Prof. G. H. F. Nuttall presented to the Museum a specimen of O. foleyi, and the writer is indebted to Prof. E. Roubaud for comparing one of the present specimens with the type of O. delanoëi. Prof. Roubaud writes to say that, having examined the Somaliland specimen, he and M. Colas-Belcour are of the opinion that it belongs to the species O. delanoëi: and that the various details of structural difference do not warrant a specific distinction, but indicate that the present specimens may belong to a different biological or geographical race. The large size of these Somaliland ticks, the discovery of their larvae and their presence in a locality so widely separated from that of the type, are considered important enough to be placed on record, and the specimens are regarded as representing a subspecies of O. delanoëi

Studies in Siricidae, especially of Europe and southern Asia (Hymenoptera, Symphyta)

1943 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Benson
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
British Museum ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Sirex Noctilio ◽  
Central European ◽  
European Species ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
First Time

1. These studies were originally intended to form the basis of a world monograph of the Siricidae ; such a work cannot be completed under present circumstances.2. Two ratios are introduced as useful characters for separating species : the ovipositor/forewing ratio and the sawsheath/ovipositor ratio. These ratios were obtained from all specimens of all the species represented in the British Museum collections and the results are tabulated. They were found not to vary with the size of the insects.The former ratio is specially useful in the genus Urocerus, which has a long ovipositor, and the latter ratio in the genus Sirex, which has a shorter ovipositor.3. Keys are given to the genera of the world. Of Semenov's new genera, Xoanon is accepted but not Xanthosirex. A new genus Eriotremex is erected for certain Indo-Malayan species previously included in Tremex.4. Keys are given to the European species, which are compared critically with related species from other parts of the world. A key to the species of Eriotremex, gen. nov., is also given.5. Sirex noctilio, F., and S. juvencus, L., are recorded for the first time from North America and S. cyaneus, F., from the continent of Europe. The common Urocerus of the northern Palaearctic region is shown to be more closely related to the Nearctic U. gigas flavicornis, F., than to the central European U. gigas gigas, L., and is treated as a new subspecies—U. gigas taiganus, subsp. nov. U. gigas tibetanus, subsp. nov., is described from the Himalayas. U. sah, Mocsáry, is treated as a subspecies of U. augur, Klug, and U. cedrorum, Smith, as a synonym of U. augur augur, Klug.6. The British Siricidae are discussed, and it is suggested that U. gigas taiganus, subsp. nov., and the form of S. juvencus, L., with entirely black antennae may be native in the Caledonian forest.7. It is argued that modern Siricidae could not have been derived from the Jurassic Pseudosiricidae.8. The known Oriental and Himalayan Siricidae are listed and discussed. Urocerus multifasciatus, Takeuchi, and Eriotremex formosanus, Matsumura, are mentioned as two species originally described from Formosa but shown also to occur on the mainland. Urocerus niger, sp. nov., is described from the Himalayan region, and the name Eriotremex malayanus, sp. nov., is given to a form described without a name by Forsius from Malaya.9. Several errors in previous work on Siricidae are corrected.

Ghost-moths of Trinidad and Tobago with description of a new genus and a new species (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4758 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-190
Author(s):  
CARLOS G.C. MIELKE ◽  
JOHN R. GREHAN ◽  
MATTHEW J.W. COCK
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Monotypic Genus ◽  
Congeneric Species ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Sternite Viii ◽  
First Time

The Hepialidae species of Trinidad and Tobago are documented and two species are recognized. The new and monotypic genus Wallacella, gen. n., (Lepidoptera, Hepialidae) is erected to include Phassus guianensis Schaus of Guyana (Wallacella guianensis, comb. n.). The male holotype and genitalia are also illustrated for the first time. Potential generic affinities with Druceiella (Viette) and Pfitzneriana (Viette) are considered. Gymelloxes juliusboosi sp. n. is described from Trinidad and Tobago and compared to its congeneric species. The sternite VIII and male genitalia are diagnostic for this new species. The male holotype is deposited in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London, UK. 

On some Type-specimens of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera in the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art

1897 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 326-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Percy Hall Grimshaw
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
New Genus ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Histoire Naturelle ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Natural History Collections ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

The paper dealt with fifty-two species of butterflies and nineteen of beetles, the type-specimens of which had been discovered by the author in a collection purchased by the University of Edinburgh from M. Dufresne of Paris in the year 1819, and afterwards transferred to the Museum of Science and Art. In the case of the butterflies, the species referred to were described by Godart in the Encyclopédie Méthodique, while the beetles belonged to species described by Olivier in the same work, and also in his Histoire Naturelle des Insectes—Coléoptères, published about the same time. By the comparison of these original specimens with others in the Natural History Collections at the British Museum the author has been enabled to clear up many points in synonymy, etc., which have for nearly eighty years remained doubtful and obscure. The most important results of the investigations may be summarised as follows:—One of the beetles has been found by Mr Gahan, of the British Museum, to be the type of a new genus, which is characterised in the present paper, while the specimen upon which it is founded is probably unique; it has been found necessary to rename one species of butterfly and one beetle; errors in synonymy have been corrected in the case of nineteen species; and eight species hitherto wrongly placed have been referred to their proper genera.

DESCRIPTION OF PARABROCHYMENA, NEW GENUS, AND REDEFINITION AND REVIEW OF BROCHYMENA AMYOT AND AUDINET-SERVILLE (HEMIPTERA: PENTATOMIDAE), WITH CONSIDERATIONS ON NATURAL HISTORY, CHOROLOGICAL AFFINITIES, AND EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS

1992 ◽  
Vol 124 (S163) ◽  
pp. 3-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Claude Larivière
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New World ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Generic Level ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
Systematic Relationships ◽  
First Time

AbstractFrom the endemic New World halyine genus Brochymena, two genera are recognized. New morphological characters at the generic level are described. Parabrochymena, new genus, with Pentatoma arborea Say as type species, is erected to contain 10 taxa formerly included in Brochymena. New combinations are Parabrochymena aculeata (Distant), P. apiculata (Van Duzee), P. arborea (Say), P. barberi barberi (Ruckes), P. barberi diluta (Blatchley), P. cuspidata (Distant), P. enigmatica (Ruckes), P. florida (Ruckes), P. haedula (Stål), and P. poeyi (Guérin-Méneville). Brochymena is redefined with 20 taxa: B. affinis Van Duzee, B. cariosa Stål, B. carolinensis (Westwood), B. chelonoides Ruckes, B. dilata Ruckes, B. exardentia Ruckes, B. hoppingi Van Duzee, B. humeralis Ruckes, B. laevigata Ruckes, B. lineata Ruckes, B. marginella Stål, B. myops Stål, B. parva Ruckes, B. punctata punctata Van Duzee, B. punctata pallida Blatchley, B. pilatei Van Duzee, B. quadripustulata (Fabricius), B. splendida Ruckes, B. sulcata Van Duzee, and B. tenebrosa Walker. Four synonymies are established: B. marginella Stål = B. carolinensis (Westwood); B. pilatei Van Duzee = B. sulcata Van Duzee; B. laevigata Ruckes = B. myops Stål; B. exardentia Ruckes = B. lineata Ruckes. Lectotypes are designated for B. affinis Van Duzee, B. cariosa Stål, B. myops Stål, B. punctata pallida Blatchley, and B. p. punctata Van Duzee. Species groups of Brochymena are characterized, and a key to all taxa is presented for the first time. As appropriate, for each species of Brochymena, the following are provided: citation of original description, synonymies, type material, diagnosis, description, geographical distribution, taxonomic comments, natural history, and illustrations of important structural characters. Chorological affinities are presented and systematic relationships are hypothesized.

scholarly journals XIX.—On a Silurian Scorpion and some additional Eurypterid Remains from the Pentland Hills

1900 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 575-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm Laurie
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
British Association ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Upper Silurian ◽  
The One

In 1892 I communicated to this Society an account of a collection of Eurypterids from the Upper Silurian rocks of the Pentland Hills, in which I described new species and a new genus. Since that time I have had the opportunity of examining two other collections from the same locality. One of these was formed with the aid of a grant from the British Association. The fossiliferous bed—for these remains occur in a single thin bed of rock—was laid bare, and a considerable amount of it removed and split up. In this latter work I was fortunate to get the assistance of Mr John Henderson, the original discoverer of the locality, and I am glad to have this opportunity of recording my indebtedness to him. A fair number of specimens was thus procured, which not only threw considerable light on the structure of some of the already described forms, but gave evidence of some species as yet undescribed. More important than this collection, however, was the one formed by the late Mr Hardie of Bavelaw Castle, who had for many years collected among the Pentland Silurians. His collection was, on his death, acquired by the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, and Dr Traquair kindly put the collection in my hands for examination. From the size of the collection I expected some new and interesting results, and have been far from being disappointed. Seven new species of Eurypterids have come to light and one Scorpion.

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).

Some letters of Sir Charles Blagden

1951 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-260
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
British Museum ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Kind Permission ◽  
The One

In a footnote to the extract from the Diary of Sir Charles Blagden which appeared in previous pages of this volume, 1 it was explained that the portion of the Diary for the year 1788 in the Society’s possession is incomplete, and it was surmised that Blagden had been to Geneva in that year. The gap can fortunately be filled, however, and the story of Blagden’s relations with the men of science at Geneva can be completed, by means of the copies of the correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks in the Library of the British Museum (Natural History). The original autograph letters of the Banksian correspondence were dispersed many years ago, but the manuscript copies preserved in the Museum provide a precious guide to the activities and interests not only of Sir Joseph Banks, P.R.S., but also of Sir Charles Blagden, Sec.R.S., whose many letters almost take the form of reports from the Secretary to the President of the Royal Society. By way of confirmation of what was surmised in the previous notes, and by kind permission of the Trustees, extracts are given below of some letters from Blagden to Banks, dated 9 August and 14 September 1788. They will be found to contain unexpected information about Queen Victoria’s father, Mr Woodley, and Charles James Fox. In addition, the transcription is given of a letter from Blagden to Banks of 5 September 1792, written during the course of the journey described in the extract from the Diary that appears above. This letter is the one referred to on page 83 : ‘ Sent letter to Sir Joseph Banks.’ Its interest lies not only in the account of the dangers through which Blagden passed on leaving Paris, but also in the information which it contains to the effect that Schmuck’s experiments were, after all, inspired by those of Galvani, as suspected in footnote 32, page 71. There are also interesting references to Huber’s work on Bees, Charles Bonnet’s state of health and Thomas Whaley’s accident.

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