scholarly journals MOSQUITO NOTES.—No. 5

1906 ◽  
Vol 38 (11) ◽  
pp. 367-368
Author(s):  
C. S. Ludlow
Keyword(s):  

From the Island of Mindanao, P.I., comes a very pretty mosquito.Toxorhynchites argenteotarsis, n. sp.—♀. Head densely covered with very dark brown flat scales, with bronze-blue iridescence, a light blue-white band around the eyes, and a few brown bristles; antennæ dark brown, the basal joint densely covered with flat white scales; palpi with very dary brown, almost black, scales, bronze-blue iridescence, the penulimate and antipenultimate joints with narrow violet apical bands; proboscis very dark, practically black, with bright bronze-blue irirdescence; eyes black, clypeus black.

1905 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 385-388
Author(s):  
C. S. Ludlow

Among the mosquitoes lately sent from the various Army Stations are the following, of interest mostly because of their apparent close relation to already known forms:Uranotœnia cœruleocephala, Theob., var. lateralis, n. var.— ♀. Head covered with flat blue scales, becoming white around the eyes, a couple of brown bristles between, and a few around, the eyes, no fork scales; the scales on the occiput change from a dark indigo or violet to a light blue, according to the direction of the light, and when viewed from the side may even seem brown with a wide white border around the eyes, but in other positions are some shade of blue; antenn♀ brown, verticels and pubescence brown, basal joint light testaceous, with a few thin flat scales; palpi also light brown, very short, hardly longer than the depth of the clypeus, the last joint reduced to a knob; proboscis dark brown, swollen at the tip; clypeus testaceous; eyes brown and silver.


1905 ◽  
Vol 37 (9) ◽  
pp. 334-335
Author(s):  
T. D. A. Cockerell

♀.— Length nearly 19 mm.; length of anterior wing about 13 mm.; breadth of abdomen in middle 7 mm.; in all respects like M. Comanche, Cresson (co-type compared), except as folllows: Abdomen broader; fourth segment without a bare median area, the braod grayish-white band continued right across; fifth and sixth segments with the hari purplish-black, except the long hair at sides, which is paler and redder; hair of venter not so red; hair of inner side of basal joint of hind tarsi reddish-black, ferruginous basally: wings hardly so dark; hair-patch on mesothorax shorter, so that it is conspicuously broader than long; flagellum dark, with only a faint red tinge beneath; hair on outer side of basal joint of middle tarsi brownish-black (rufo-fulvous in Comanche).


Hand ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 155894472199422
Author(s):  
Owolabi Shonuga ◽  
Kristen Nicholson ◽  
Jack Abboudi ◽  
Gregory Gallant ◽  
Christopher Jones ◽  
...  

Background Thumb carpometacarpal (CMC) joint arthroplasty is a common procedure in the surgical management of symptomatic thumb basal joint arthritis. Following trapeziectomy, a number of suspensionplasty techniques are often used, but limited comparative evidence exists between these techniques. The central aim of this study was to prospectively compare the outcomes of 2 suspensionplasty techniques following trapeziectomy: suture button (TightRope) versus ligament reconstruction and tendon interposition (LRTI). Methods Prospective data were collected on 112 consecutive patients with Eaton stage III-IV thumb CMC arthritis who underwent open trapeziectomy and suspensionplasty. There were 53 LRTI and 59 TightRope suspensionplasty procedures. Outcomes were measured using the Quick Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand ( QuickDASH) questionnaire, Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for pain, radiographic analysis, and lateral pinch strength. Patient demographic data and complications were also recorded. Results Patients undergoing TightRope suspensionplasty had significantly higher trapeziometacarpal index and thus less subsidence than the LRTI group at 2 weeks (0.22 vs 0.17 [ P < .0001]) and 3 months (0.17 vs 0.15 [ P < .05]) postoperatively. TightRope suspensionplasty also had a significantly lower QuickDASH score at 2 weeks (64.7 vs 74.6 [ P < .05]), 3 months (20.7 vs 32.5 [ P < .05]), and 1 year postoperatively (7.57 vs 21.5 [ P < .05]) compared with the LRTI group. However, there was no difference in VAS pain, lateral pinch strength, reoperation, or complications at any time point between groups. Conclusions Thumb CMC joint arthroplasty performed with a TightRope suspensionplasty versus LRTI yielded short-term improved resistance to subsidence, long-term greater improvement in clinical outcome by QuickDASH, and no difference in pain or complication rates.


2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (37) ◽  
pp. 16211-16217
Author(s):  
Hongxia Guan ◽  
Yunfei Li ◽  
Guixia Liu
Keyword(s):  

Dy3+,Ho3+ co-doped β-NaGdF4 nanomaterials emitted different shades of green light, which varies from the light blue area towards the blue-green area and ultimately to the green area with the increase of Ho3+ ions.


2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
Elahe Mansouri Gandomani ◽  
Nematollah Rashidnejad-Omran ◽  
Amir Emamjomeh ◽  
Pietro Vignola ◽  
Tahereh Hashemzadeh

ABSTRACT Turquoise, CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O, belongs to the turquoise group, which consists of turquoise, chalcosiderite, aheylite, faustite, planerite, and UM1981-32-PO:FeH. In order to study turquoise-group solid solutions in samples from the Neyshabour and Meydook mines, 17 samples were selected and investigated using electron probe microanalysis. In addition, their major elements were compared in order to evaluate the feasibility of distinguishing the provenance of Persian turquoises. The electron microprobe data show that the studied samples are not constituted of pure turquoise (or any other pure endmember) and belong, from the chemical point of view, to turquoise-group solid solutions. In a turquoise–planerite–chalcosiderite–unknown mineral quaternary solid solution diagram, the chemical compositions of the analyzed samples lie along the turquoise–planerite line with minor involvement of chalcosiderite and the unknown mineral. Among light blue samples with varying hues and saturations from both studied areas, planerite is more abundant among samples from Meydook compared with samples from Neyshabour. Nevertheless, not all the light blue samples are planerite. This study demonstrates that distinguishing the deposit of origin for isochromatic blue and green turquoises, based on electron probe microanalysis method and constitutive major elements, is not possible.


Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2015 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
IVAN SAZIMA ◽  
ALFREDO CARVALHO-FILHO ◽  
JOÃO LUIZ GASPARINI ◽  
CRISTINA SAZIMA

A new species of scaly blenny, Labrisomus conditus sp. n., is described from Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, off northeastern Brazil. It differs from its Western Atlantic congeners by the following combination of characters: nuchal cirri when depressed not reaching dorsal-fin origin, 68 to 73 lateral line scales, first and second dorsal-fin spines slightly shorter than third spine and not flexible, numerous pale dots overall (light blue in life), opercular dark spot with incomplete and diffuse broad pale margin (orange in life). The new species is a territorial bottom-dweller in rocky shores and is found among algae and in crevices at depths from 0.5 to 6 m. Labrisomus conditus sp. n. feeds mostly on crustaceans (crabs, amphipods) and molluscs (snails, bivalves). The new species increases to five the species within the genus Labrisomus recorded from Southwestern Atlantic.


Hand Clinics ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew M. Tomaino
Keyword(s):  

1997 ◽  
Vol 342 ◽  
pp. 42???45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Gerwin ◽  
Annabel Griffith ◽  
Andrew J. Weiland ◽  
Robert N. Hotchkiss ◽  
Richard R. McCormack

1919 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-108
Author(s):  
H. G. O. Kendall

Cores and chopping tools are very numerous at Windmill Hill, Avebury Down, Grime's Graves, and Cissbury. They are characteristic of the industry. In the main they differ markedly from the cores of the prism industries. True prisms are rare in the one and numerous in the other; the one shows comparatively broad, the other comparatively narrow facets and flakes; the flakes of the latter being on the whole thinner and finer. It is noteworthy that when the flints of both industries have lain near the surface, those of the one in Herts., Wilts., Sussex, Norfolk, and Suffolk are almost invariably white or light blue; whilst those of the other range from light blue, through dark blue, to unchanged black or grey; with a partial exception, easy of explanation, on the coast of Cornwall.The “lumps” may be divided into a number of species. Some were cores only, others were tools for chopping, cutting, scraping, pecking, boring, or clearing out split marrow bones; some were cores first and tools afterwards.


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