scholarly journals NOTE ON PRIONOXYSTUS ROBINIÆ

1886 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 98-99
Author(s):  
Aug. R. Grote
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
The Body ◽  
Family Group ◽  
Eating Habit ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
The North ◽  
Prionoxystus Robiniae

Having recently examined the European Cossus (Xyleutes) ligniperda, the generic differences between Cossus and Prionoxystus impressed me quite forcibly. The Cossidæ or Teredines of Hübner (Grote, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., Nov., 1874), form a sub-family group of the “Spinners” or Bombycidœ, and are generally characterized by the wood-eating habit of the larvæ, which are provided with powerful mandibles for the purpose. The moths are generally of a clumsy build and are usually of a gray color, resembling the bark of trees on which they rest, and are more or less reticulated with darker shade lines, peppered and spotted so as to give the idea of protective imitation. The ocelli are wanting and the tongue is rudimentary. In the gents Cossus, and in most of the genera of the group, the vestiture of the body is close, thick and hairy. Although gray is the prevailing color, some Australian species have the hind wings especially of a reddish-brown hue. The European Zeuzera Aesculi is white, spotted over wings and thorax with steely blue. The North American genus Prionoxystus differs at first sight by the sparse, thinly laid on, scaly vestiture.

“Mementos of the Prehistoric Races”: Antiquarians and Archaeologists in the Centennial Decade

Relic Hunters ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Snead
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
American Indians ◽  
North American ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
North American Indians ◽  
The North ◽  
North American Archaeology ◽  
Peabody Museum ◽  
Fourth Decade

The long Worcester slumber of the Kentucky Mummy came to an end in 1875, with a letter to Joseph Henry from Samuel Haven, then in his fourth decade as Librarian of the American Antiquarian Society. “Nearly a year ago,” Haven wrote, “I received from you a request that the mummy (so called) from a cave in Kentucky, which had for many years been in possession of this Society, should be transferred to the Smithsonian Institution . . . I therefore . . . now feel at liberty to forward the body by express; hoping that you may find it convenient to make such return in exchange as seems proper.” Thus the Kentucky Mummy was packed up and sent south—by train, rather than by wagon, as in her northward journey—with little fanfare at either end. It is uncertain whether the return exchange was completed, but the episode provided an opportunity to highlight the Antiquarian Society’s collections, and perhaps thereby its priority in the study of the indigenous past. Earlier in 1875 the Society had called the attention of the membership to the display of antiquities in its halls. “Anything connected with the North American Indians is deemed worthy of the study of the antiquary,” noted the Council’s report, pointing out that even remains from lowly shell heaps “make known the character of their food with all the certainty of a bill of fare at the Parker House.” The same note, however, also acknowledged that the center of gravity for North American archaeology in New England had definitively shifted away from Worcester. The establishment of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard in 1866 was the initial cause of this realignment, which provided for scholarship a new venue, relatively unburdened by institutional culture. The museum’s first curator, Jeffries Wyman, died in 1874 and was replaced by a younger and more ambitious man, Frederic Ward Putnam. In the same year the Council of the Antiquarian Society was joined by Stephen Salisbury III, a dynamic patron with interests in the ancient Maya. With new leaders, the two institutions moved in different directions.

scholarly journals ON TWO GENERA OF PHYCIDÆ

1882 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-30
Author(s):  
A. R. Grote
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
New Genus ◽  
North American Species ◽  
The Body ◽  
Large Species ◽  
The North

I find that unless we use neurational characters to separate the genera of Phycidœ, that it will be impossible to classify the species with accuracy. All characters drawn from the periphery, the appendages of the body, will be found subject to very gradual modifications, but I do not think we can afford to reject any of them, because of their relative want of stability. Indeed the neuration in the Lepidoptera seems to be as useful as in the Diptera, although there are certain cases (as I long ago pointed out with regard to Thyridopteryx) where it varies not only in the species, but in the opposite wings of the same specimen. I think that we must regard as generically distinct from Penmpelia the North American species Pravella, which has 8, instead of 7 veins to the hind wings (see Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. 4, 694). For this species, the structure of which I have quite fully described, I propose the generic name Meroptera. I also find that our two species, found in Texas and Colorado, and which probably mine the Agave, viz., Bollii and Dentata, are distinct from the European types of Zophodia, to which Prof. Zeller referred Bollii, the type of the new genus Megaphycis. In the structure of the palpi, shape of the wings, greater size and length of body, our two large species differ strongly.

KARYOLOGICAL DATA ON SOME SPECIES OF THE GENUS CURA (TRICLADIDA, PALUDICOLA)

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Gourbault ◽  
Mario Benazzi
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
North American Species ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
The North ◽  
Diploid Complement ◽  
Karyological Data ◽  
Six Elements

For the North American species Cura foremanii, the authors confirm a diploid complement of 12 chromosomes, and give a detailed description of the karyotype which is characterized by the presence of one long metacentric and five more or less subtelocentric chromosomes. A population of the Australian species C. pinguis possesses 36 metacentric chromosomes that are easy to assemble in six groups of six elements each. This suggests a hexaploid condition as do the karyometric results. Meiosis is normal in both germ lines and the development appears to be amphimictic.

1588: The Bicalutamide Early Prostate Cancer Program: Findings of the North American Trial at 7.7 Years' Median Follow-Up

2006 ◽  
Vol 175 (4S) ◽  
pp. 511-512
Author(s):  
David G. McLeod ◽  
Ira Klimberg ◽  
Donald Gleason ◽  
Gerald Chodak ◽  
Thomas Morris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
North American ◽  
Early Prostate Cancer ◽  
The North ◽  
Cancer Program
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