scholarly journals The Identity of Odynerus Scudderi Cameron and O? Bradleyi Cameron (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae)

1987 ◽  
Vol 94 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 77-80
Author(s):  
James M. Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Type Specimens

Bohart (1965) treated the identity of 100 names of North American Eumeninae described by Peter Cameron from 1905 to 1912. This paper established the synonymy of all but four of these names, and so solved many problems in the nomenclature of nearctic Eumeninae. During a recent visit to the British Museum, I studied the type specimens of two of the unrecognized species, and in the present work establish their synonymy.

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON WALKER’S NORTH AMERICAN TYPE-SPECIMENS OF ANTHOMYIIDAE AND MUSCIDAE (DIPTERA) IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

1971 ◽  
Vol 103 (7) ◽  
pp. 975-977
Author(s):  
H. C. Huckett
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
North American Type

AbstractThe following species are treated and new synonymies indicated: Cordylura aea, type unknown; C. cupricrus, = Hylemya coenosiaeformis Stein; C. flavipennis, = Acrostilpna replicata Huckett; C. imperator, = Hoplogaster setipes Huckett; C. tenuior, = Hoplogaster mollicula (Fallén); Anthomyia anane, == Botanophila setigera (Johannsen); A. badia, genus Paraprosalpia; Coenosia spinosa, = Hydrophoria ambigua (Fallén).

NOTES ON FRANCIS WALKER'S TYPE-SPECIMENS OF NORTH AMERICAN ANTHOMYID FLIES IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. (MUSCIDAE, DIPTERA)

1934 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 132-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. C. Huckett
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Type Specimens

The first extensive contribution to a knowledge of the anthomyid flies of North America was made by Francis Walker in 1849, when he published the records of fifty-five nominal species in his list of dipterous insects in the British Museum.

IV.—Notes on the Bivalves contained in the Gilbertson Collection, British Museum, and Figured in Phillips's “Geology of Yorkshire.”

1879 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 161-165
Author(s):  
R. Etheridge
Keyword(s):  
Accurate Determination ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Early Date ◽  
Late Professor

BY far the larger proportion of the Carboniferous fossils described and figured by the late Professor John Phillips, F.R.S., in the second volume of his “Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire,” and published in 1836, are contained in the collection of the late Mr. Gilbertson, of Clitheroe, now deposited in the Geological Department of the British Museum. The early date of publication of this work renders the collection described in it one of the most important, next to those of Sowerby, Ure, Martin, and one or two others, to students not only of British, but equally so of Continental Carboniferous Palæontology. Unfortunately the descriptions of Prof. Phillips are so abbreviated and unsatisfactory, and the figures in many instances so mearge, that it is with great difficulty anything like an accurate determination of a species can be made by the aid of them. Under these circumstances the following notes made directly from the type specimens will probably be found of use; it would, however, be far more satisfactory to have the specimens refigured. For convenience sake I shall commence with those composing plate vi., and then take the others composing plate v.

A description of six new species of the genus Cryptochaetum (Diptera-Agromyzidae) from East Africa and East Indies; together with a key to the adults and larvae of all known species

Parasitology ◽  
1941 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. Thorpe
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Research Laboratory ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Veterinary Research ◽  
Imperial Institute ◽  
New Material ◽  
The Subject

The material here described was mostly obtained as a result of a period of study and travel in East Africa in 1939. Two of the species were reared from Coccidae of the genus Aspidoproctus at Amani, Tanganyika Territory, and their life, history is the subject of an accompanying paper. I am greatly indebted to Dr F. W. Edwards, F.R.S., for allowing me to describe the remarkable species collected by him on Ruwenzori, Uganda, in 1935. I am also most grateful to Dr R. H. Le Pelley of the Scott Agricultural Laboratories, Nairobi, and Dr E. A. Lewis of the Veterinary Research Laboratory, Kabete, Nairobi, for other valuable new material. In addition, The Imperial Institute of Entomology has kindly allowed me to examine and describe material from Uganda in their possession which had been erroneously identified as Cryptochaetum iceryae (Will.). Type specimens of all species will be deposited in the British Museum.

The Genus Epipagis Hubner, nec Hampson, in North America (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

1955 ◽  
Vol 87 (6) ◽  
pp. 249-252
Author(s):  
Eugene Munroe
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae ◽  
The Common

Hübner ([1824-25] p. 357) defined the genus Epipagis, citing three species. Hampson (1918: 277) chose fenestralis Hübner as type, and sank Sameodes Snellen to Epipagis. The arrangement of the British Museum Pyralidae shows that Hampson thought fenestralis Hübner was the same as phyllisalis Walker; but so far as I know this synonymy was never published. Actually, Hübner's figure of fenestralis represents a female of the genus usually known as Stenophyes Lederer, wrongly synonymized by Hampson (1899) with Crocidophora Lederer. The size and coloration suggest that the species Hübner figured is the common North American one universally called buronalis Guenée.

scholarly journals A New Genus of Nematodes Parasitic in Elephants

Parasitology ◽  
1921 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. A. Baylis
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
British Museum ◽  
African Elephant ◽  
The Other ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Single Male ◽  
Male Specimen

A Re-Examination of the type-specimens of “Sclerostoma” clathratum Baird from the African elephant, which are in the British Museum, has led to a rather interesting discovery. The material was contained in two bottles, labelled in Baird's own handwriting. One bore the name “Sclerostoma clathratum Baird,” and contained a single male specimen of the form now known as Grammocephalus clathratus. The other bottle was labelled “Sclerostoma clathratum Baird, ♀,” and proved to contain worms of both sexes and of quite a different type from Grammocephalus.

scholarly journals THE OLDEST FIGURES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS

1882 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-13
Author(s):  
H. A. Hagen
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Small Volume ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Thin Plates ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
Small Band

The Gazophylacium of Jacob Petiver, Apothecary in London (died 1715) is a very rare book, as the plates and the catalogues were printed and published at different times between 1695 and 1715. They were collected later and published by Mr. Empson, an officer of the British Museum and a natural son of Sir Hans Sloane, in 1764, in London, with the title, “Jacobi Petiveri Opera, etc., or Gazophylacium, 2 vol. fol.” A small volume in 8vo contains the original sheets published by Petiver between 1695 and 1706. The library of the Museum of Comp. Zool. at Cambridge possesses a copy presented, June 1765 by Emanuel Mendez da Costa, Librarian of the Royal Society, to Thomas Knowlton. The collection of J. Petiver, at least the Lepidoptera, is still preserved in the British Museum, and was seen by me in 1857. Every butterfly is placed between two thin plates of mica, fastened with a small band of paper around the margin, and glued with one flying slip to the pages of a book in quarto, so that every species can be examined above and beneath.

Th e chironomidae (Diptera) of Australia.

1961 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 611 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Freeman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South America ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Systematic Account ◽  
United States National Museum

This is a systematic account of the species of Chironomidae from Australia based mainly on collections in Australian museums, the British Museum, and the United States National Museum. One hundred and twenty-nine species are described, 69 of them new, and keys are given to subfamilies, genera, and species. The classification proposed by Brundin (1956) has been adopted; in this, the subfamilies Diamesinae, Clunioninae, and Corynoneurinae are treated as, at the most, tribes of the subfamily Orthocladiinae. Type specimens of species described by Macquart, Walker, and Skuse have been examined and the species redescribed and figured; an attempt has been made to identify Kieffer's species, the types of which are probably lost. Some account is given of the composition of the fauna, and the presence of an element in the more primitive genera similar to the fauna of the southern part of South America has been noted.

On a new Species of Ephialtes (Hym., Ichneumonidae) parasitising the Codling Moth

1942 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. Perkins
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
European Corn Borer ◽  
Cydia Pomonella ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Codling Moth ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Corn Borer ◽  
Pyrausta Nubilalis ◽  
A New Species

In 1939 I dealt with two species of Ephialtes which parasitise the codling moth, Cydia pomonella, L., namely E. caudatus, Ratz., and E. crassiseta, Thoms., and showed how they differed from E. punctulatus, Ratz. (=extensor, Tasch.) with which species they had formerly been confused. During 1940, F. J. Simmonds, of the Imperial Institute of Entomology, sent to the British Museum a series of a species of Ephialtes bred from this same host in the south of France. This is a new species, and it was previously known to me only from a single female which had been bought by D. S. Wilkinson from O. Schmiedeknecht, who had incorrectly named it Pimpla roborator, F. In fact, this new species does not belong to the same species group as Ephialtes (Exeristes) roborator, F., Grav. (=Pimpla roborator, F., Schmied.), which is a well-known parasite of the European Corn Borer (Pyrausta nubilalis, Hb.) and also parasitises many other hosts.As there has been considerable confusion in the synonymy and interpretation of E. roborator, F., it seems advisable to give notes on the relevant type specimens seen by me. It has been impossible to find the type of Ichneumon roborator, F. Gravenhorst's interpretation of this very variable species has therefore been taken. The description given by Schmiedeknecht in his Opuscula Ichneumonologica is adequate for the recognition of the female ; the male is very distinct, having a tubercle in the middle of the clypeus, a character unknown in any other described European species. Pimpla cicatricosa, Ratz., which is given by Schmiedeknecht as a synonym of P. roborator, F., is a distinct species.

scholarly journals II.—Micropholis Stowi, Huxley, A Temnospondylous Amphibian from South Africa

1913 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 340-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. M. S. Watson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
North West

Micropholis Stowi was described by Huxley in 1859 from a small and very incompletely preserved skull found by G. W. Stow at Rhenosterberg (north-west of New Bethesda), District Graaf Reinet, Cape Colony. Subsequently R. Owen described another specimen as Petrophryne granulata. In his description he suggested that it might prove to be identical with Huxley's type. The British Museum now contains these two type-specimens and three other examples of the form, all except Huxley's type being from the Procolophon zone of Donnybrook, Upper Zwartkei, District Queenstown.

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