scholarly journals NEW NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA.—No. V

1892 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 266-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. P. Van Duzee
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Lateral Angle ◽  
Greenish Yellow ◽  
Anterior Edge ◽  
Black Band

Male: From of Th.quadrinotata, Fab., but with the vertex shorter and more depressed. Greenish-yellow; head yellow with a transverse black band on the anterior edge; body black the segments edged with yellow. Length 4½ mm.Head rounded before, very little longer at the middle than next the eye. Vertex a little depressed, anterior edge subacute; apex of the front two-thirds the width of the base, sides nearly parallel below the antennæ. Clypeus strongly widened apically where the width is but slightly less than the length, edge of the cheek rectilinear either side of the prominent lateral angle. Pronotum rather long, hind edge but moderately concave, the angles obvious.

scholarly journals NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN MYRMELIONIDAE.–I

1898 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 93-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolla P. Currie
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North American ◽  
Outer Side ◽  
Black Line ◽  
Anterior Portion ◽  
Black Band

Brachynemurus Coquilletti, new species.Male.—Length, 33 mm.; expanse of wings, 44 mm.; greatest width of anterior wing, 5.6 mm.; length of antenna, 6 mm.; luteous, marked with dark fuscous; clothed with white hairs, thickly so on abdomen; apical segments of abdomen with some black hairs among the white ones.Face flat, luteous, bordered above by a pitchy-black band separating the antennae and narrowly bordering them in front and on the outer side; a longitudinal median black line extends from this band almost to the clypeus. Circum-ocular area luteous, except along the anterior portion of the vertex, where it is fuscous, and on the margin next the eye, opposite the middle of anterior joint of maxillary palpiger, where there is a fuscous spot. Clypeus rather short, luteous, on either side anteriorly an impressed spot; above, a few black bristles. Labrum transverse, luteous; rounded laterally and narrowed anteriorly, nearly straight in front, where it is sparsely clothed with light-coloured hairs. Mandibles piceous, black at tips.

scholarly journals A CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF NORTH AMERICAN SYRPHIDÆ

1896 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 87-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. D. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Apical Half ◽  
Black Band

Male.—Eyes contiguous for about two thirds their width above, densely long, white pilose, with a sharply defined vertical black band about one-fifth their width; above, the two bands are confluent. Occiput shining olivaceous, white pilose. Ocellar area with a tuft of ferrugineous pile. Spot above the antennæ bare, shining black. Face shining black, except the tip of the indistinct tubercle, which is opaque; covered, except an indistinct median stripe, and more densely below, with abundant long light yellowish pile; very indistinctly concave below the antenné. Cheeks shining olivaceous, except ati anterior velvety cross-band and an indistinct spot below the lowest margin of the eyes; long yellow pilose. Palpi clavate, testaceous at base, apical half black.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN MYRMELIONIDAE

1898 ◽  
Vol 30 (9) ◽  
pp. 241-243
Author(s):  
Rolla P. Currie
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North American ◽  
Black Spot ◽  
Outer Side ◽  
Anterior Border ◽  
Black Band

Brachynemurus Hubbardii, new species.Male–Length, 46 mm.; expanse of wings, 49.5 mm.; greatest width of anterior wing, 6 mm.; length of antenna, 9 mm. Very slender; yellow, marked with dark fuscous; sparsely hairy, more thickly on abdomen.Face scarcely convex, yellowish; above, a broad pitchy-black band, notched in middle below, extending around the antennae on outer side; a faint fuscous line extends from centre of notch almost to clypeus; furrow between face and inner orbit of the eye, fuscous. Circumocular area yellowish, except along depressed portion of the vertex, where it is dark fuscous, and below, near maxillary palpiger, where there is a black spot. Clypeus yellowish, with a few coarse black hairs. Labrum transverse rounded laterally and narrowed anteriorly somewhat emarginate in front, yellowish, slightly tinged with rufous, several coarse dark hairs on anterior border. Mandibles piceous, black at tips; on inner edge, near apex, a tooth.

NEW NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA.—NO. VII

1894 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 89-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. P. Van Duzee
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Yellow Colour ◽  
Pale Yellow ◽  
Pale Yellow Colour ◽  
Black Band

1. Idiocerus Amœmus, n. sp.Allied to I. suturalis, but smaller. Female of a uniform pale yellow colour, pronotum and scutellum tin gedwith fulvous or ferruginous, the former with a spot behind the inner angle of each eye and a median vitta, pale. Mesonotum with a black band bordering the scutellum, at least posteriorly; extreme tip of scutellum yellow. Elytra hyaline very slightly tinged with fulvous, becoming smoky toward the apex; nervures pale yellow. Wings hyaline, highly iridescent. Eyes rufous. Oviduct ferruginous.

NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN MYRMELIONIDAE.–II.

1898 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 134-140
Author(s):  
Rolla P. Currie
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North American ◽  
Black Dot ◽  
Black Line ◽  
Black Band

Brachynemurus niger, new species.Female.—Length, 29 mm.; expanse of wings, 56mm.; greatest width of anterior wing, 7 mm.; length of antenna, 4 mm. Black, marked on head and thorax with luteous; sparsely hairy, more distinctly so on prothorax and abdomen.Face scarcely convex, luteous, a transverse, shining black band above which extends upward so as to cover the inter-antennal area; this band is notched below, a black line extending form the notch almost to the clypeus; on either side between face, clypeus and inner orbit of the eye, a triangular black dot. Circumocular area mostly luteous, except along vertex, where it is piceous. Clypeus luteous, on each side anteriorly an impressed dot. Labrum transverse, rounded laterally, emarginate in front, luteous, darker on emargination where it is sparsely clothed with black hairs. Mandibles piceous, black at tips.

Adaptation of the Connected Speech Test: Rerecording and Passage Equivalency

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasan K. Saleh ◽  
Paula Folkeard ◽  
Ewan Macpherson ◽  
Susan Scollie
Keyword(s):  
Speech Perception ◽  
North American ◽  
First Language ◽  
Intraclass Correlation ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Connected Speech ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Speech Test ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Unit Standard

Purpose The original Connected Speech Test (CST; Cox et al., 1987) is a well-regarded and often utilized speech perception test. The aim of this study was to develop a new version of the CST using a neutral North American accent and to assess the use of this updated CST on participants with normal hearing. Method A female English speaker was recruited to read the original CST passages, which were recorded as the new CST stimuli. A study was designed to assess the newly recorded CST passages' equivalence and conduct normalization. The study included 19 Western University students (11 females and eight males) with normal hearing and with English as a first language. Results Raw scores for the 48 tested passages were converted to rationalized arcsine units, and average passage scores more than 1 rationalized arcsine unit standard deviation from the mean were excluded. The internal reliability of the 32 remaining passages was assessed, and the two-way random effects intraclass correlation was .944. Conclusion The aim of our study was to create new CST stimuli with a more general North American accent in order to minimize accent effects on the speech perception scores. The study resulted in 32 passages of equivalent difficulty for listeners with normal hearing.

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