Afro-American Folk Culture: An Annotated Bibliography of Materials from North, Central and South America and the West Indies

1980 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 585
Author(s):  
John Hasse ◽  
John F. Szwed ◽  
Roger D. Abrahams ◽  
Robert Baron ◽  
Linda Rabben ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
North Central

Itchgrass–Stop the Trains?

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Hall ◽  
David T. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South America ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The United States ◽  
The West ◽  
North Central ◽  
Rottboellia Cochinchinensis

Itchgrass [Rottboellia cochinchinensis(Lour.) Clayton ♯ ROOEX] is a large aggressive annual in the Poaceae. This weedy grass is native to Southeast Asia. It now occurs also in tropical and subtropical areas of Australia and Africa and has been introduced into the West Indies and North, Central, and South America. It apparently was introduced into the United States at Miami, Fla. and Lafayette, La. in the early 1900s (1, 6, 7).

The Parasites of the Coffee Leaf-Miners (Leucoptera spp.) in Africa

1936 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ch. Ferrière
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
The West ◽  
Leaf Miners ◽  
The World ◽  
Leucoptera Coffeella

The coffee leaf-miners of the genus Leucoptera, Hübner, are serious pests of coffee wherever it is cultivated and they have often caused great anxiety to planters in many parts of the world. Leucoptera coffeella, Guér., is known from the West Indies, Central and South America, Central Africa, Madagascar, Réunion and Ceylon. Another species, L. daricella, Meyr., seems to be responsible for still more damage in Africa.

The milliped family Platyrhacidae (Polydesmida: Leptodesmidea) in the West Indies: Proposal of Hoffmanorhacus n. gen.; description and illustrations of males of Proaspis aitia Loomis, 1941; redescription of Nannorrhacus luciae (Pocock, 1894); hypotheses on origins and affinities; and an updated New World familial distribution

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3626 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROWLAND M. SHELLEY ◽  
DANIELA MARTINEZ-TORRES
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
New World ◽  
The West ◽  
Insular Populations

In the New World, the milliped family Platyrhacidae (Polydesmida) is known or projected for Central Americasouth of southeastern Nicaraguaand the northern ¼ of South America, with disjunct, insular populations on Hispaniola(Haiti), Guadeloupe(Basse-Terre), and St. Lucia. Male near-topotypes enable redescription of Proaspis aitia Loomis, 1941, possibly endemic to the western end of the southern Haitian peninsula. The tibiotarsus of its biramous gonopodal telopodite bends strongly laterad, and the medially directed solenomere arises at midlength proximal to the bend. With a uniramous telopodite, P. sahlii Jeekel, 1980, on Guadeloupe, is not congeneric, and Hoffmanorhacus, n. gen., is erected to accommodate it. Nannorrhacus luciae (Pocock, 1894), onSt. Lucia, is redescribed; also with a biramous telopodite, its tibiotarsus arises distad and diverges from the coaxial solenomere. The Antillean species do not comprise a clade and are only distantly related; rather than introductions, they plausibly reflect ancestral occurrences on the “proto-Antillean” terrain before it rifted from “proto-SouthAmerica” in the Cretaceous/Paleocene, with fragmentation isolating modern forms on their present islands. Existing platyrhacid tribes are formally elevated to subfamilies as this category was omitted from recent taxonomies. Without unequivocal evidence to the contrary, geographically anomalous species should initially be regarded as indigenous rather than anthropochoric.

Frederick Robert Miller, 1881-1967

1969 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 172-184
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Toronto General Hospital ◽  
The West ◽  
The Family ◽  
Paternal Grandfather

Frederick Robert Miller, who died on 11 November 1967, was born on 2 May 1881, in Toronto, Canada. His paternal grandfather, Captain John Miller, of Bermuda, was co-owner of the brig Demerara which he sailed many times between Liverpool and the West Indies and South America. Following a mutiny on board his ship, Captain Miller was persuaded by his wife to leave the sea. They settled for a time in Dublin, Ireland, where they had a son, Allan Frederick Miller. The family later emigrated to Toronto, Canada, where Mr Allan Miller eventually became Secretary-Treasurer of the Toronto General Hospital, a position which he held for many years.

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