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Agrilus aliciae Bellamy 2005
No full text- Agrilus aliciae Bellamy, 2005 Holotype: ♂. MEXICO: Oaxaca, Hwy. 190, 16 km E Tehuantepec, 13/VII/1992. Col. G. H. Nelson; on Haematoxylon. Conservation status: Complete, well-preserved. Paratype: 1 ♀. MEXICO: Oaxaca, Hwy. 190, 16 km E Tehuantepec, 13/VII/1992. Col. T. C. MacRae; Beating Haematoxylon sp. Conservation status: Complete, well-preserved.Published as part of Pérez-Hernández, Cisteil Xinum, 2017, An annotated catalogue of the Coleoptera types deposited in the National Insect Collection (CNIN) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 4288 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4288.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/101041
Philippscelus panayensis Bellamy, 2005, sp. nov.
No full textPhilippscelus panayensis sp. nov. (Fig. 7) Description of female holotype. Elongateovoid, subcylindrical, flattened above and below; length 13.5 mm, width 6.2 mm, widest at about elytral posterior 1 / 3; coloration shining black above and below; dorsal surface strongly striolaterugose, except median portion of pronotum and elytral which are sparsely, very shallowly punctate; ventral surface imbricate; entire surface glabrose except short, sparse, adpressed, fine setae wellspaced along ventral imbrications. Head: frontovertex very feebly depressed between eyes dorsally and feebly, irregularly projecting between ventral half of eyes; eyes large, inner margins feebly diverging dorsally; frontoclypeus strongly compressed between antennal insertions; distal margin entire, explanate; gena without any projecting lobe, with short obtuse depression beneath eye to receive basal antennomeres in repose. Antennae short, antennomere 2 longer than 3; 3 and 4 subequal, serrate from antennomere 5; 6–10 wider than long; 11 oblong, entire. Pronotum: wider than long, widest at basal 1 / 3; disc entire, only slightly convex medially; anterior margin arcuate; basal margin bisinuate; basolateral angle obtuse; lateral margin arcuately emarginate in basal 1 / 3 to angulate projection, then narrowing slightly to before anterior 1 / 3 and then feebly arcuately convex to anterior margin. Elytra: disc entire, evenly transverse; slight basal depression between humerus and scutellum; posterolateral margin serrulate; apical angles separately rounded; epipleuron short, ventrally deflexed, extending only to opposite mesepimeron. Pygidium not visible posterior to elytral apices. Thoracic ventrites: prosternum with moderately produced, feebly bilobed mentonniere; process subparallel, lateral margins converging posteriorly; mesepimeron partially visible beyond basal abdominal projection; metacoxal plate with anterior margin strongly sinuate. Abdominal ventrites: suture between ventrites 1 and 2 only indicated laterally; distal margin of ventrites 5 angularly emarginate, entire margin finely dentate. Legs: femora fusiform; pro and mesotibiae feebly arcuate; metatibia straight, with small rounded tooth on external margin at about basal 1 / 3, setal comb present on external margin from before proximal 1 / 3, extending to beyond distal 1 / 3; tarsomeres 1–4 each slightly shorter than preceding, each with ventral pulvillus; 5 elongate, length equal to 2 + 3 + 4, claws bifid. Specimens examined. Holotype Ψ (TLCS): Panay Is, Philippines, 20.vii. 1995. Etymology. The species epithet is for Panay Island. Remarks. This new species is immediately distinguished from P. f i s h e r i by color and distribution differences. While this new species is completely black, P. f i s h e r i is a dark iridescent green and is only recorded from Catanduanes Island, southeast of Luzon (misspelled as ‘CandanduaniIns.’ by Hoscheck von Mühlhaimb, 1931 a).Published as part of Bellamy, C. L., 2005, The Philippine Coraebini Bedel, 1921 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilini) Part 6: new and resurrected genera and new species, pp. 23-40 in Zootaxa 1038 on pages 30-31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16978
Early memories
No full textThe Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiographies was gathered together by John Burnett, David Vincent and David Mayall whilst compiling their three volumes annotated bibliography, "The Autobiography of the Working Class" (Harvester Press, 1984-1989). This book includes descriptions of unpublished autobiographies and indicates their locations. Excerpts from some of the autobiographies have been published in "Destiny obscure: autobiographies of childhood, education, and family from the1820s to the 1920s", edited by John Burnett (Routledge 1994 and A. Lane, 1982). The authors "sought to identify not only the large numbers of printed works scattered in various local history libraries and record offices, but also extant private memoirs, many of which remain hidden in family attics, known only to the author and a handful of relatives" (Introduction to vol.1, p. xxix). The criteria for inclusion were: the writers were working class for at least part of their lives; they wrote in English; and they lived for some time in England, Scotland or Wales between 1790 and 1945. John Burnett was professor of social history at Brunel University from 1972 to 1990.Sketches of the early life of Harry Bellamy, born Elliotstown, Monmouthshire (1892), died Abertridwr (1960). Bellamy makes brief mention of the Welsh Revival as well as the Eight Hours Act (1908) and also provides general descriptions of family life
H. B. Dard à ses concitoyens : ce 24 juillet 1784
No full textAnalyse de Rivoire: Dard déclare qu'il n'a rien fait de blâmable relativement à l'arrestation du citoyen Bellamy, et que l'on cessera de l'accuser quand les faits seront connus.Signé: H. B. Dar
Mastogenius texanus Bellamy, 2002, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Mastogenius texanus</i>, sp. nov. <p>Figures 4, 5, 6</p> <p>Description of holotype (habitus Figure 4). Small, length 4.2 mm, width 1.7 mm, widest on pronotum slightly anterior to midpoint; body elongate-ovoid, subcylindrical, flattened above and below; coarsely, shallowly punctate, shining black throughout, head and pronotum with faint aeneous reflection, elytra with faint purple reflection; dorsal surface sparsely covered with fine, short, semi­erect white setae, setae on ventral surface recumbent; antennomeres with short, erect setae sparsely, irregularly positioned around entire surface of each. Head with frontovertex entire; eyes of moderate size, with inner margins slightly converging dorsad; clypeal margin narrowly, feebly arcuate; antennal insertions widely separated; antennomere 2, short, globose, 3 shorter than 2, slender, 4­10 elongate triangular, length of each about 2x maximum width; 11 oblong; length of antennae, when laid alongside body, extending to just beyond anterior margin of elytra; left antennomeres 4­11 missing; pronotum with anterior margin very feebly arcuate, posterior margin evenly transverse, lateral contour broadly arcuate, widest just anterior to midpoint; lateral margin entire, sinuate when viewed laterally, supra­lateral margin extending from posterior margin to about anterior 1/6; disc flattened; scutellum triangular, slightly longer than wide, depressed medially; width of elytra at humeri subequal to pronotal width; beyond rounded anterior angle, sides subparallel to about posterior 1/3, then narrowing gradually to separately rounded and subtruncate apices; disc feebly transversely convex, with one small, irregular depression on either side just beyond anterior 1/3 and second smaller depression just before apex; epipleura extending posteriad broadly from anterior margin to opposite metacoxa; prosternum with very feeble bilobed anterior margin; prosternal projection slightly constricted between procoxae, distal margin attenuate; metacoxal plate with posterior margin arcuate, concave; abdominal ventrites with 1 as long as 2+3+4, 2 longer than 3, 3 and 4 subequal, 5 slightly longer than 4, very broadly convex; legs with femora narrowly fusiform, subequal to tibiae; fore­, mesotibiae each with one pair short testaceous apical spines; metatibiae with comb of stout setae on external face; tarsi with ventral pulvilli on tarsomeres 3, 4; pulvillus on 3, very short on distal margin; pulvillus on 4, elongate, distally expanded, extending beyond distal margin; 5 elongate, claws simple; male genitalia (Figure 6) short, testaceous, parameres attenuate distally, median lobe with strong lateral teeth, one on each side, apex triangular, slightly produced.</p> <p>Variation. The single paratype (Figure 5) differs from the holotype: length 3.8 mm, width 1.3 mm; antennae much shorter, extending only to about posterior margin of pronotum when laid alongside; each triangular antennomere proportionally shorter than in male, length of each about 2x width; coloration differs with dorsal and ventral surfaces black with aeneous reflection, elytra and abdominal ventrites with faint brunneous background, as though teneral.</p> <p> Specimens examined. Holotype (LACM): USA: TX [Texas] Jeff Davis Co., Davis Mts., Picnic Area, 11.3 mi W Ft. Davis on Hwy 161, elev. 5080', T. C. MacRae/01­176b: em. 10­20.iv.2002, ex. dead branch <i>Quercus</i> [<i>pungens</i> Liebm. var.] <i>vaseyana</i> [(Buckley) C. H. Muller], coll. 24.x.2001; 1 paratype (LACM): [U.S.A.] Tex[as], [Brewster Co.] Big Bend Nat[ional] P[ar]k, Basin Area, 29.iv.1959, [H.] Howden & [E.] Becker/ <i>Quercus grise</i> a [Liebm.]. The holotype is donated to LACM from TCMC.</p> <p>Etymology. The specific epithet is for the American state of Texas, where the only two known localities are found.</p> <p> Remarks. <i>Mastogenius texanus</i> comes closest to <i>M. arizonicus</i>, both being quite slen­ der in proportion and relatively parallel­sided. It differs from <i>M. arizonicus</i> by having the head, pronotum, ventral surface and legs with a slight aeneous reflection and the elytra with a faint purple reflection, while the apex of the median lobe of the aedeagus is more narrowly acuminate. These two species are possibly sister­species from the same ancestral lineage.</p> <p>The paratype was collected more than 40 years ago and was originally deposited in the CNCI, Ottawa and remained unidentified until I received it from G. H. Nelson. Since this specimen originated in a U.S. National Park, I requested that the specimen be deposited in a U.S. collection, in keeping with the U.S. National Parks Service’s current requirements for conducting research in U.S. National Parks. The recent rearing of a second conspecific specimen by Ted MacRae provided additional information on hosts and distribution and this specimen was chosen as the holotype since it is male. The paratype specimen was damaged during study and is now mounted on a card with the detached abdomen and the left tibia; the entire left middle leg is missing.</p>Published as part of <i>Bellamy, C. L., 2002, The Mastogenius Solier, 1849 of North America (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Polycestinae: Haplostethini), pp. 1-12 in Zootaxa 110</i> on pages 4-6, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/156070">10.5281/zenodo.156070</a>
Effects of acquired resistance on infection with Eimeria falciformis var. Pragensis in mice
No full textMice immunized with infections of 500, 5,000, or 20,000 oocysts of E. falciformis var. pragensis were reinfected with 20,000 and 100,000 oocysts at 20 and 38 days, respectively, after the initial infection. After the first challenge infection, none of the immunized mice showed clinical signs of coccidiosis; a few mice passed very low numbers of oocysts, and oocyst discharge seemed to correlate negatively with immunizing dose. None of the mice immunized twice passed oocysts after challenge. Mice immunized with three infections were completely immune to challenge for 4 months. The effect of the immune response on the life cycle of the coccidium was determined by histological examination of the intestines of immune and nonimmune mice infected with the parasite. In both the immune and nonimmune groups, sporozoites penetrated absorptive epithelial cells and migrated to crypt epithelial cells during the first 6 to 24 h postinfection. At 48 to 72 h postinfection, the sporozoites developed into mature first-generation schizonts in the nonimmune mice, whereas the developing first-generation schizonts degenerated within the crypt epithelial cells of the immune mice. In nonimmune mice, third-generation merozoites, inoculated intracecally, developed into mature fourth-generation schizonts, whereas in immune mice the developing fourth-generation schizonts degenerated before maturing. The possibility that a cellmediated immune mechanism is responsible for the arrest in schizogony is discussed.LR: 20070416; PUBM: Print; JID: 0246127; ppublishSource type: Electronic(1
Il serpente nell'Eden. Utopie e distopie eugenetiche fra scienza e letteratura
No full textIndagine interdisciplinare sulle utopie e le distopie considerate dal punto di vista dei problemi demografici. Dopo le critiche di Malthus a Condorcet, come hanno trattato i pensatori e gli scrittori utopistici le difficoltà additate da Malthus nel "principio della popolazione"? Quale rapporto hanno immaginato vi potesse essere fra fecondità e ordine utopico, fra controllo della riproduzione e qualità della vita, libertà individuale di procreare e doveri verso le generazioni successive (o lo Stato)? Sono considerati molti autori, letterari e no: oltre a Malthus e Condorcet, Godwin, Fourier, T. H. Huxley, Galton, Bellamy, A. Huxley , Spencer, Galton, C. Morris, Zola, Hudson, G.B. Shaw, H.G. Wells, Mantegazza, Bogdanov, Zamjatin, Orwell, D.H. Lawrence, J.B.S. Haldane, J.D. Bernal, Merezkovskij,e altri meno noti
Members of 1921 Cement Commission Including W.H. McMaster, Frank Barnard, Paul E. Bellamy, C.M. Harrison & W.J. Sharwood
No full text5 x 7 photograph, five men in suits gathered for a photograph, two men are seated, one man wears a bow tieMiscellaneous Subject File Cement Plant Construction - Rapid City, Corn Palace - Mitchell, Bert Hall Collection, Illingworth Collection P174 Folder P174 Cement Plant Construction - Rapid City - Jim Hunt Collection P174 tab cement plant construction paper 1 Cement Plant Commission A. C. Hunt (member)Cement Commission - 1921 Legislature Manual W. H. McMaster, Governor Ex-Officio Chairman - Pierre Frank Barnard -Aberdeen Paul E. Bellamy Pierre C. M. Harrison- Pierre W. J. Sharwood - Lea
Immune-mediated emigration of neutrophils into the lumen of the small intestine
No full textBy using pigs sensitized to bovine serum albumin (BSA), it was found that exposure of the intestinal mucosa to BSA induced, in 4 h, the emigration of large numbers of neutrophils into the intestinal lumen. This response was specific for the immunizing antigen and could be transferred to nonimmune animals with immune serum. The emigration of neutrophils through the intestinal mucosa was not accompanied by the edema, hemorrhage, and thrombosis which were apparent after intracutaneous inoculation of BSA into the same animals. Twenty-four hours after a 4-h mucosal exposure to BSA, the intestinal mucosa showed no evidence of neutrophil emigration nor any other abnormal features. These observations suggested that emigration of neutrophils into the intestinal lumen can be a specific, antibody-mediated immune response which occurs in the absence of intestinal injury. Possible relationships between immune-mediated enteroluminal emigration of neutrophils, neutrophil production, and a protective role for the neutrophil in the intestinal lumen were considered.LR: 20070416; PUBM: Print; JID: 0246127; 0 (Antibodies); 0 (Serum Albumin, Bovine); 69-65-8 (Mannitol); 9007-36-7 (Complement System Proteins); ppublishSource type: Electronic(1
The liberty of the post-moderns? Market and civic freedom within the EU
No full textTaking its cue from Benjamin's Constant's famous essay, this article uses the case of EU citizenship to explore how far ancient, civic, freedom can be combined with modern, market, freedom. Many commentators have, in different ways, argued that the forces promoting European integration call for a new form of post-national citizenship that either builds civic freedom on the basis of the liberties of the moderns or does away with the need for it altogether. These arguments are disputed. Constant perceptively raised a number of problems with this analysis, while ignoring - or being ignorant of - a number of others. As he noted, ancient liberty corrects various pathologies and lacunas of modern liberty, but he overlooked the degree to which its survival rested on the continuing importance of certain pre-modern forms of social solidarity in modern times. Those seeking new forms of post-modern citizenship tend to ignore one or other or both these points. The piece concludes by arguing that the only practical way of combining ancient and modern liberty within the EU is to view it as a particularly intense form of international cooperation between democratic states rather than as a supranational organisation that transcends its component parts
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