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Weighted boundary limits of the Kobayashi--Fuks metric on h-extendible domains
No full textWe study the boundary behavior of the Kobayashi--Fuks metric on the class of
h-extendible domains. Here, we derive the non-tangential boundary asymptotics
of the Kobayashi--Fuks metric and its Riemannian volume element by the help of
some maximal domain functions and then using their stability results on
h-extendible local models.Comment: Journal adde
Platysodes formosanus H. Kobayashi 1990
No full text<i>Platysodes formosanus</i> Kobayashi, 1990 <p>(Figs. 9–12, 25, 28)</p> <p> <b>New material examined (</b> 1♁, 2♀♀ <b>).</b> <b>CHINA: Guangdong:</b> 1♀ (MYNU), 2011.V.18, Longyangdong Park, Guang-zhou, Ling-Ting Chen leg. <b>Taiwan:</b> 1♀ (CKSJ), Fushan, Taipei Hsien, 2000.VII.11, H. Sugaya leg. // <i>Platysodes formosanus</i> H. Kobayashi, 1990, det. K. Sakai, 2013; 1♁ (CKSJ), 2008.XI.7, Shihtyutou, Nantou, C. C. Lo leg. // <i>Platysodes formosanus</i> H. Kobayashi, 1989, det. K. Sakai, 2013.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> China: Guangdong (<b>new record</b>), Taiwan.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Platysodes formosanus</i> is extremely similar to <i>P. jansoni</i> and the parameres of both also show no differences (Figs. 12, 17), and that resulted in Qiu <i>et al.</i> (2015) presumed them as the same species. Traditionally, the former is characterized by elytron bearing one tomentose macula and restricted to Taiwan Island (Kobayashi 1990; Qiu <i>et al.</i> 2015), while the latter is totally black and distributed in eastern India and Indochina (Arrow 1910; Qiu <i>et al.</i> 2015). However, we recently obtained a female whose appearance perfectly matches the characteristics of <i>P. formosanus</i> (Fig. 9), but it originated from Guangzhou (Guangdong, China) where located on the southeastern edge of the Asian continent and between the Indochinese Peninsula and Taiwan Island (Fig. 28). Furthermore, an individual of <i>P. formosanus</i> bearing an indistinct macula on elytron (nearly disappeared) was found from Taiwan (Fig. 25), and a female of <i>P. jansoni</i> with two maculae was discovered from Vietnam (Fig. 13). The two specimens have here verified the prediction proposed by Qiu <i>et al.</i> (2015) that the variability of tomentose maculae on elytron can be observed in a species of wide distribution. Therefore, neither endemism of <i>P. formosanus</i> nor morphological differences between the two species are well established, but we would like to formally propose the synonymy when sufficient material got rather than synonymize them at present.</p>Published as part of <i>Qiu, Jian-Yue & Xu, Hao, 2020, Further notes on the flower chafer genus Platysodes Westwood, 1873 (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) with description of a new species from Himalaya, pp. 192-200 in Zootaxa 4890 (2)</i> on page 195, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4890.2.2, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4301815">http://zenodo.org/record/4301815</a>
Eumetriochroa araliella Kobayashi, Huang & Hirowatari, sp. nov.
No full textEumetriochroa araliella Kobayashi, Huang & Hirowatari sp. nov. Figs. 2 E–H, 5, 9, 10, 17. Diagnosis. All Eumetriochroa species possess a forewing with vein R 1 (Fig. 5 A). The forewing pattern of this species is easily distingished from other species by the three dark greyish-brown oblique streaks (Fig. 2 E–H). The genital structure of this species is similar to E. hederae Kumata and E. miyatai Kumata, but it is distinguished from them by the bowl-shaped vinculum with saccus long virgulate in the male genitalia (Fig. 5 D, E) and very small signum in the female genitalia (Fig. 5 G). Adult. (Fig. 2 E–H). Wing expanse 6.0 mm in holotype, 5.0– 8.1 mm (6.9 mm in average of eleven paratype specimens) in paratypes. Vertex and frons lustrous white; vertex with lustrous white scales appressed on occiput. Labial palpus whitish, porrect, slightly upcurved, with pale blackish brown scales in the base. Maxillary palpus absent. Antennae as long as forewing, lustrous white annulated with whitish brown. Thorax white to pale brown. Abdomen dark grey. Anal tuft grey. Forewing. White with dark greyish-brown oblique streaks; first triangular patch from base to 1 / 5, second broad, at costal 1 / 3, third linear at costal 1 / 2, obscure and narrow from middle to dorsum, apical patches at 9 / 10 of wing. Cilia white and dark grey at costal area with one apical dark grey transverse strigula; sometimes a blackish apical spot at apex; terminal cilia white with fuscous fringe line near termen. Hindwing whitish grey or grey; cilia white. Wing venation (Fig. 5 A, B). Male genitalia (Fig. 5 C–F). Tegumen as long as valva. Vinculum bowl-shaped, with saccus long virgulate. Valva slender, acute at apex, with plumose setae occuring on interior part of apex. Aedeagus tubular, as long as valva; vesica without spines. Female genitalia (Fig. 5 G). Apophysis anterioris and apophysis posterioris slender. Ostium bursae membranous; ductus bursae long, tubular. Corpus bursae small, with very small signum on central part. Pupa. (Fig. 17). Pale yellow to ochreous, 2.8 –3.0 mm in length, 0.3–0.4 mm in diameter. Vertex with a short, triangular frontal process (Fig. 17 B, C, E). Clypeus with a pair of short setae (Fig. 17 A, B, F). Dorsum of A 2 –A 10 with a concentration of small spines in anterior portion (Fig. 17 G, H). A 10 furcated with a pair of beak-shaped processes from caudal apex, rolled dorsally (Fig. 17 I, J–L). Host plant. Dendropanax trifidus (Thunb.) Makino ex Hara, Evodiopanax innovans (Siebold & Zucc.) Nakai, Eleutherococcus sciadophylloides (Franch. & Sav.) H. Ohashi and Fatsia japonica (Thunb.) Decne. & Planch. (Araliaceae). Distribution. Japan (Mie, Nara, Fukuoka, Kagoshima (Amami Is.) Prefectures). Specimens examined Type material. 15 (53 4 Ƥ 6 exs). Adults: Holotype 3, Japan: Kumawata, Soni, Uda, Nara, 12.x. 2011 em., S. Kobayashi, Host: Evodiopanax innovans, 9.x. 2011 (ex pupa) (genitalia slide no. OPU-SK 366) in OPU. Paratypes 233 Ƥ 5 exs. Same host plants as holotype, [Nishi–rokuban–cho, Yuri–gaoka, Nabari, Mie]: 1 Ƥ, 23.xi. 2009 em., S. Kobayashi & S. Teramura, 8.xi. 2009 (ex larva); 13 1 Ƥ 1 ex, 23.x. 2010 em., S. Kobayashi, 16.x. 2010 (ex larva). [Hikosan, Fukuoka, H. Kuroko leg.]: 2 exs, 10 & 14.xi. 1954; 13 1 Ƥ, 4 & 22.x. 1955. 1 ex, 11.ix. 1959, Host: Eleutherococcus sciadophylloides. 1 ex, 3.v. 1957 in OPU. [Kuninao, Yamato, Amami, Kagoshima, S. Kobayashi leg., 6.iii. 2012 (ex pupa)]: 13 1 Ƥ 1 ex, 9–14.iii. 2012 em., Host: Dendropanax trifidus,; 13, 20– 22.iii. 2012 em., Host: Fatsia japonica Pupae: 5 exs. [Host: Evodiopanax innovans, S. Kobayashi leg.]: [Nishi–rokuban–cho, Yuri–gaoka, Nabari]: 1 ex, 23.x.2010, 16.x. 2010 (larva); 4 exs, 12 & 26.ix.2011, 10.ix. 2011 (ex larva). Etymology. The specific epithet, araliella, is derived from the family name of the host plant, Araliaceae. Biology. This species has 2–3 generations per year. The larvae emerged from July to November in Nara and Mie Prefectures. We observed larvae on Evodiopanax innovans forming a narrow, long serpentine mine; about 30 ~ cm in length, clear and colorless. The mines (Fig. 9 A–D) were only found on the abaxial epidermis of leaves, usually 1–3 mines per leaf. The late instar larva is 3.0–4.0 mm long and pale greenish yellow in coloration (Fig. 9 E–G). A pupal cocoon fold (white to creamy white, 4.5 –5.0 mm in length, 0.8 –1.0 mm in width) situated at the end of the mine, usually found along leaf margins (Fig. 9 H). We also observed the mined leaf of Fatsia japonica to be a narrow, long linear mine (whitish, about 20 ~ cm in length; 0.6–5 mm in width; brownish frass line: ~1.0 mm in width) (Fig. 10 C, E, F). A pupal cocoon fold (white, 9.0 mm in length, 2.0 mm in width) situated along leaf margins. Biotope. The Kumawata valley (type locality of E. araliella) is part of Tokai Nature Trail connecting Soni Vilage and Uda City (Murō Vil.), Nara Prefecture with a planted forest of Japanese cedar and cypress mixed with fagaceous trees and with few host plants (Fig. 1 E).Published as part of Kobayashi, Shigeki, Huang, Guo-Hua, Nakamura, Akihiro & Hirowatari, Toshiya, 2013, Four new species of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) from China and Japan, and description of the pupal morphology of the genera Corythoxestis, Eumetriochroa, Guttigera, and Metriochroa, pp. 101-129 in Zootaxa 3619 (2) on pages 113-115, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3619.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/21886
Platysodes formosanus Kobayashi 1990
No full textPlatysodes formosanus Kobayashi, 1990 (Figs. 1–5, 42) Platysodes formosanus Kobayashi, 1990: 78 (type locality: Mt. Nanfengshan, Maolin, Kaohsiung, Taiwan), figs. 4 & 8 ♂ (parameres and holotype); Sakai & Nagai 1998: 163 (Puli, Taiwan), plate 5, fig. 111 ♀; Yu et al. 1998: 100, plate 5, fig. 13 ♂ (holotype); Krajčik 1999: 43; Smetana 2006: 300; Krajčik 2012: 213. Diagnosis. This species is similar to P. jansoni. The primary difference is the presence of a small, velvety white macula in the middle of the elytron near the lateral margin, which is absent in P. jansoni. Type material examined. Holotype of Platysodes formosanus Kobayashi, 1990 is labeled: “ HOLOTYPE [P.], Platysodes formosanus [H.] H. Kobayashi [P.], (1990) [H.], [red label with black border]/ Nanfengshan, Maolin, Taiwan [P.], May 10 [H.] 1986, Ching-Kin Yu leg. [P.], [white label]” (♂, MSMT, Figs. 1–5). Comments on type material. Platysodes formosanus was described by Kobayashi based on a single male specimen, and it is preserved in his personal collection as he indicated in the original publication (Kobayashi 1990). However, the holotype was not found in a recent search (Mr. Hirokazu Kobayashi, personal communication). As indicated in the original description, the holotype was collected by “ Y. Ching” (incorrect spelling of Ching-Kin Yu) from Mt. Nanfengshan in Kaohsiung Hsien, Taiwan. The late Mr. Ching-Kin Yu (1926– 2012) was curator of the collections of MSMT where a considerable number of his specimens are deposited, the holotype of P. formosanus may also preserved there. This supposition later was confirmed by our colleague, Mr. Yu-Tang Wang, who found a male specimen with a holotype label is perfectly in accord with the original publication. Other material examined. Taiwan 1 ♀ (NSMT), 10.VI. 1965, Hori [Puli], Formasa [sic!] / Plastodes formosanus [sic!]; 1 ♂ (MFCJ), 7.IX. 2008, Shizitou, Puli, Nantou, native leg.; 1 ♀ (WICC), 15.X. 2006, Siji, Datong, Ilan Hsien, alt. 1000m, Yu-Wei Huang leg.; 1 ♂ (WICC), VII- 2008, Qishan, Kaohsiung Hsien, Qi-Han Gao leg. Distribution. Taiwan. Remarks. Platysodes formosanus is endemic to Taiwan, and only five specimens are known to us. Both bear only one small, white macula in the center of the elytron near the lateral margin.Published as part of Qiu, Jian-Yue, Xu, Hao & Chen, Li, 2015, Review of the Oriental genus Platysodes Westwood (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Cremastocheilini) with a redescription of Platysodes madoni Bourgoin, pp. 553-564 in Zootaxa 4021 (4) on page 555, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/24095
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from H. Kobayashi to Harris L. Kempner responding to his earlier letter asking about steel mills. Kobayashi explains that all steel mills sell through trading firms, not to individual buyers. He attaches a quote from Mitsui Bussan, a steel company
External cavity modes in Lang-Kobayashi and traveling wave models
No full textWe investigate a semiconductor laser with delayed optical feedback due to an external cavity formed by a regular mirror. We discuss similarities and differences of the well-known Lang-Kobayashi delay differential equation model and the traveling wave partial differential equation model. For comparison we locate the continuous wave states in both models and analyze their stability
A Determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Parameter |Vus|_ Using KL Decays
No full textThe KTev experiment was performed at Fermilab to determine the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa parameter |Vus| based on new measurements of the six largest KL branching fractions and semileptonic forms factors. The |Vus| was found to be equivalent to 0.2252±0. 0008KTeV±0.0021ext , where the errors were from KTeV measurements and from external sources. The CP violation parameter |η+-|=(2.228±0.005fKTeV±0.009 ext) ×10-3 was determined using the measured branching fractions. The results indicate that the improved form factor measurements may help to reduce theoretical uncertainties in f+(0)
Intracell and Intercell Interference Mitigation Detectors for Multirate Transmission in TD-CDMA 3G Systems
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