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Ross Mathis letter to Joseph T. Robinson, February 13, 1928, related to flood control in the White River Levee District
No full textThree typed pages. Mr. Mathis writes to Senator Robinson regarding a potential refund of the monies the White River Levee District paid to the Mississippi River Commission and aid requested from the Red Cross. He also expresses his hope that future federal legislation would fund not only levee improvements on the Mississippi, but also those on tributaries such as the White River.Ross Mathis (1890-1946) was an attorney from Cotton Plant, Arkansas.[Page 3]
[Signature of Ross Mathis
Ross Mathis telegram to Joseph T. Robinson, February 18, 1928, related to flood control in the White River Levee District
No full textWestern Union telegram, two typed pages. Mathis notifies Senator Robinson of the financial exigencies of the White River Levee District.Ross Mathis (1890-1946) was an attorney from Cotton Plant, Arkansas
Correspondence regarding Horace Kephart collection
No full textThis copy of a 1934 correspondence, from W. E. Bird to J. Ross Eakin, concerns the Horace Kephart collection. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. William Ernest Bird (1890-1975) with Western Carolina Teachers College would become president of the college in the 1950s. J. Ross Eakin (1879-1946) was the first superintendent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, holding that post from 1931 until 1945
Neoephydra araucaria Mathis, 2008, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Neoephydra araucaria,</i> sp. nov. <p>(Figs. 11–16)</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> Specimens of <i>N. araucaria</i> are distinguished from similar congeners by the following characters: generally appearing moderately dark; face moderately setose; gena moderately short; and structures of male terminalia with distinctive conformation.</p> <p> <b>Description.</b> Medium-sized to moderately large shore flies (Fig. 11), body length 3.04–4.38 mm; generally dull, grayish with some subshiny areas dorsally.</p> <p> <i>Head</i> (Fig. 11): Head ratio 0.69–0.72; frontal ratio 0.54–0.55; mesofrons with dark, greenish blue to brassy luster, inconspicuously pilose; ocellar triangle differing little from mesofrons in color or vestiture; fronto-orbital setae 2. Antenna mostly concolorous, dark, blackish brown. Facial ratio 0.90–0.93; mostly densely setulose, particularly along oral margin and toward posteroventral portions of face; dorsum of interfoveal hump with subshiny area more or less concolorous with mesofrons, otherwise face densely microtomentose, grayish brown to golden brown, gradually paler ventrally. Eye ratio 1.07–1.10; gena-to-eye ratio 0.32–0.35; gena moderately short, coloration immediately below eye whitish gray, slightly more tannish posteriorly.</p> <p> <i>Thorax</i> (Fig. 11): Scutum thinly microtomentose, subshiny, mostly dark brown, darker and shinier posteriorly; anterior margin slightly more microtomentose, grayer, especially postpronotum and 2 partial, microtomentose stripes laterad of acrostichal track; lateral margins of scutum slightly more microtomentose, more grayish brown; scutellum concolorous with posterior portion of scutum; pleural areas paler, grayer ventrally; anepisternum with dorsal and posterior margins more brownish, otherwise mostly gray; anepimeron mostly concolorous with posterior margin of anepisternum; other pleural areas including coxae whitish gray, concolorous. Wing length averaging 3.55–3.80 mm; faintly infuscate; costal vein ratio 0.20–0.22; M vein ratio 0.69– 0.71. Legs generally dark; femora microtomentose, grayish blue to green, only slightly darker than ventral pleural areas; tibiae and tarsi orangish yellow, with blackish tinges apically.</p> <p> <i>Abdomen:</i> Generally thinly microtomentose to microtomentose; tergites fasciate, anterior margin brownish to brassy, more thinly microtomentose, posterior margin grayish olivaceous green to gray, paler toward lateral margins, some specimens with faint bluish tinges of metallic luster; ventral surface of tergites frequently whitish gray. Fifth tergite of male triangular, nearly equilateral. Male terminalia (Figs. 12–16): margins of epandrium in posterior view (Fig. 12) parallel below cerci, rounded dorsally; surstyli in posterior view roughly forming isosceles triangle, apices of posterior processes forming ventral angle with narrow gap between; surstylus in lateral view (Figs. 14–16) with posterior process wide on basal 2/3, thereafter tapered to anteriorly curved, rounded apex, anterior margin irregularly shaped, posterior margin more regular; lateral process short, bluntly rounded, with patch of long, medioapical setulae.</p> <p> <b>Type Material.</b> The holotype male is labeled “ CHILE: Osorno Pr. Anticura (1 km. W) 430 m 1–3 Feb. 1978 W N Mathis/ɗ/ HOLOTYPE ɗ Neoephydra araucaria Mathis USNM [red].” The holotype is double mounted (minuten in a plastic elastomer block), is in excellent condition, and is deposited in the USNM. The allotype female and 123 paratypes (71ɗ, 52Ψ; USNM) bear the same locality label data as the holotype. Other paratypes are as follows (all in USNM): <i>CHILE. Bio Bio:</i> Santa Barbara (25 km E; 37°40'S, 72°01'W; 350 m), 24 Jan 1978, W. N. Mathis (21ɗ, 11Ψ; USNM). <i>Curico:</i> Estero Potrero Grande (3 km E Potrero Grande; 35°11'S, 71°07'W; 400 m), 8 Feb 1987, C. M. and O. S. Flint (5ɗ, 5Ψ; USNM). <i>Malleco:</i> Victoria (11 km N; 38°13'S, 72°20'W; 300 m), 25 Jan 1978, W. N. Mathis (15ɗ, 8Ψ; USNM). <i>Maule:</i> Constitución (35°20'S, 72°30'W), 16 Dec 1976, A. Gurney, Barria (1ɗ; USNM). <i>Nuble:</i> Río Perquilauquen, Parral (12 km S; 36°10'S, 71°50'W; 160 m), 24 Jan 1978, W. N. Mathis (5ɗ, 3Ψ; USNM). <i>O'Higgins:</i> Río Claro (5 km N Rengo; 34°24'S, 70°52'W; 300 m), 23 Jan 1978, W. N. Mathis (9ɗ; USNM). <i>Osorno:</i> Termas de Aguas Calientes (1 km SE; 40°41'S, 72°21'W; 530 m), 7–8 Feb 1978, W. N. Mathis (12ɗ, 3Ψ; USNM); Anticura (4 km W; 37°40'S, 72°01'W; 400 m), 3 Feb 1978, W. N. Mathis (2ɗ, 3Ψ; USNM); Anticura (1 km W; 40°39'S, 72°10'W; 430 m), 5–6, 11–12 Feb 1978, W. N. Mathis (6ɗ, 1Ψ; USNM); Lago Puyehue (SE shore; 40°45'S, 72°25.2'W), 6–10 Feb 1978, W. N. Mathis (23ɗ, 20Ψ; USNM); Lago Puyehue, Entre Lagos (40°45.2'S, 72°34.8'W), 14 Feb 1978, W. N. Mathis (40ɗ, 24Ψ; USNM); Lago Rupanco, El Encanto (40°49'S, 72°28'W), 6 Feb 1978, W. N. Mathis (2ɗ, 3Ψ; USNM); Laguna El Pato (41°10'S, 73°40'W; 1100 m), 13 Feb 1978, W. N. Mathis (5ɗ, 12Ψ; USNM); Laguna El Toro (41°09'S, 73°28'W; 780 m), 8 Feb 1978, W. N. Mathis (1ɗ, 2Ψ; USNM); Salto del Río Pilmaiquen (40°08'S, 71°59'W), 14 Feb 1978, W. N. Mathis (15ɗ, 14Ψ; USNM). <i>Palena:</i> Termas El Amarillo, (30 km SE Chaitén; 42°52.9'S, 72°21.4'W; 250 m), 22 Jan 1987, C. M. and O. S. Flint (3ɗ, 7Ψ; USNM). <i>Santiago:</i> El Alfalfal (33°30'S, 70°11'W; 1320 m), 22 Jan 1978, W. N. Mathis (20ɗ, 5Ψ; USNM); Lampa (22 km NW Santiago; 33°17'S, 70°54'W), 21 Jan 1978, W. N. Mathis (5ɗ, 9Ψ; USNM). <i>Talca:</i> Río Lircay (11 km N Talca; 35°23'S, 71°39'W; 85 m), 23 Jan 1978, W. N. Mathis (3ɗ, 1Ψ; USNM).</p> <p> <b>Type Locality.</b> Chile. Osorno. Anticura (1 km W; 40°39'S, 72°10'W).</p> <p> <b>Additional Specimens Examined.</b> <i>ARGENTINA. Buenos Aires:</i> Médanos (38°49'S, 62°41'W), 11 Nov 1946, K. Hayward (1ɗ; USNM). <i>Mendoza:</i> Uspallata (9 mi W; 32°40'S, 69°25'W), 6 Feb 1951, E. S. Ross, A. E. Michelbacher (1ɗ; CAS). <i>Rio Negro:</i> Bariloche (49°09'S, 71°18'W), Nov 1926, R. and E. Shannon (5ɗ, 1Ψ; USNM).</p> <p> <i>CHILE. Aconcagua:</i> Guardia Vieja (E; 32°54'S, 70°17'W), 3 Dec 1976, A. Gurney, G. Barria (1ɗ; USNM). <i>Antofagasta:</i> Pocos (23°15'S, 68°04'W; 2800 m), Des Atacama, Apr 1954, L. E. Peña (lɗ; USNM). <i>Bio Bio:</i> El Abanico (37°20'S, 71°31'W), 31 Dec 1950, E. S. Ross, A. E. Michelbacher (lɗ; USNM). <i>Cautin:</i> Temuco (20 km E; 38°44'S, 72°35'W), 7 Jan 1951, E. S. Ross, A. E. Michelbacher (39ɗ, 46Ψ; USNM). <i>Concepción:</i> Cosmito (36°46'S, 73°01'W), 31 Dec 1966, O. S. Flint, Jr., T. Cekalovic (lɗ, 1Ψ; USNM); San Rosendo (37°16'S, 72°43'W), Dec 1926, R. and E. Shannon (lɗ; USNM). <i>Coquimbo:</i> Bosque de Nague-Los Vilos (31°54.7'S, 71°30.8'W), Nov 1969, L. E. Peña (2ɗ, 1Ψ; USNM); Tilama, El Naranjo (32°05'S, 71°10'W), Oct 1967, L. E. Peña (2ɗ, 2Ψ; USNM); Freirina (28°30.3'S, 71°04.6'W), Oct 1969, L. E. Peña (4ɗ, 13Ψ; USNM); Hda Illapel (31°37.8'S, 71°09.9'W; 600–1200 m), 24–30 Oct-19 Dec 1954–1966, M. E. Irwin, L. E. Peña, E. Schlinger (4ɗ, 2Ψ; USNM); La Serena (50 km S; 29°55'S, 71°15.2'W), 1 Dec 1950, E. S. Ross, A. E. Michelbacher (2ɗ; CAS); Ovalle (20 mi SE; 30°36'S, 71°11'W), 12 Dec 1950, E. S. Ross, A. E. Michelbacher (4ɗ, 11Ψ; USNM); Río Colorado-Pichidarqui (32°52'S, 72°25'W), 7–11 Aug 1960, L. E. Peña (2ɗ, 1Ψ; CNC); Port Tres Cruces (Portuzuelo; 29°22.3'S, 70°56'W), 30 Oct 1957, L. E. Peña (2ɗ, 2Ψ; CNC). <i>Curico:</i> Cajon de Río Claro-SE Los Queñes (35°0.1'S, 70°49.1'W; 1100 m), 8 Dec 1966, E. I. Schlinger (1ɗ, 1Ψ; USNM). <i>Llanquihue:</i> Frutillar (41°07'S, 73°03'W), 22 Jan 1953, P. G. Kuschel (4ɗ; USNM). <i>Malleco:</i> Angol (37°48'S, 72°43'W), 28 Nov-1 Jan 1926–1932, D. S. Bullock (3ɗ; USNM). <i>Maule:</i> Curanipe (35°50'S, 72°38'W), 4 Dec 1953, L. E. Peña (1ɗ; USNM). <i>Nuble:</i> San Carlos (18 km E; 36°20'S, 71°44'W), 24 Dec 1950, E. S. Ross, A. E. Michelbacher (1Ψ; CAS); San Carlos (40 km E; 36°20'S, 71°43'W), 23 Dec 1950, E. S. Ross, A. E. Michelbacher (lɗ, 1Ψ; USNM). <i>O'Higgins:</i> Rancagua (23 km N; 34°09'S, 70°45'W), 21 Dec 1950, E. S. Ross, A. E. Michelbacher (30ɗ, 26Ψ; USNM). <i>Osorno:</i> Río Bueno-N Osorno (40°19'S, 72°58'W), 14 Jan 1951, E. S. Ross, A. E. Michelbacher (30ɗ, 38Ψ; USNM); Termas de Puyehue (40°42'S, 72°18'W), 7 Jun 1940, G. H. Schwabe (2ɗ, 1Ψ; USNM). <i>Santiago:</i> Baños de Morales (33°50'S, 70°03'W), 12 Jul 1940, G. H. Schwabe (1ɗ; USNM); Chacabuco, Tiltil (33°04.3'S, 70°58.3'W; 950 m), 18–19 Jan 1999, P. and M. Kerr (1ɗ, 1Ψ; USNM); Refugio Lo Valdés (33°48'S, 70°03'W), Jun 1954, L. E. Peña (2ɗ, 4Ψ; USNM); Los Maitenes (33°32'S, 70°16'W; 1200–1300 m), 19 Oct 1954, L. E. Peña (1ɗ; USNM); Cantillana (33°58'S, 70°58'W; 2000 m), Dec 1969, L. E. Peña (2ɗ, 1Ψ; USNM). <i>Talca:</i> Talca (29.5 km N; 35°25'S, 71°25'W), 22 Dec 1950, E. S. Ross, A. E. Michelbacher (1Ψ; CAS); Vegas del Flaco (34°56'S, 70°02'W; 1350 m), Nov 1969, L. E. Peña (1ɗ; USNM). <i>Valparaiso:</i> Islas Juan Fernandez: Mas-a-Tierra (33°38'S, 78°52'W), 15 Jan– 24 Mar 1951–1973, G. Barria, L. Cartagena, P. G. Kuschel, L. E. Peña (47ɗ, 53Ψ; CNC, USNM); Isla Más Afuera (33°45'S, 80°46'W), 31 Jan 1973, L. E. Peña (51ɗ, 68Ψ; CNC); Isla Santa Clara (33°42'S, 79°W), 1 Jun–30 Dec 1952–1954, P. J. Kusch, P. G. Kuschel (7ɗ, 3Ψ; USNM).</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> <i>Neotropical:</i> Argentina (Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Rio Negro) and Chile (Antofagasta, Bio Bio, Cautin, Concepción, Coquimbo, Curico, Llanquihue, Malleco, Maule, Nuble, O'Higgins, Osorno, Santiago, Talca, Valparaiso), between 28°–42°S and 62°–79°W.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The specific epithet, <i>araucaria,</i> is taken from the name of a native American tribe that lived in southern Chile. The epithet is a noun in apposition to the generic name.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> This is a common and widespread species in southern South America. Specimens are abundant, and large numbers are frequently collected in marshy habitats.</p> <p>Some variation is evident in the shape of the surstylus. This variation (Figs. 14–16), which I interpret to be intraspecific, is best viewed laterally and is expressed within and among populations of this species.</p>Published as part of <i>Mathis, Wayne N., 2008, Two new neotropical genera of the shore-fly tribe Ephydrini Zetterstedt (Diptera: Ephydridae), pp. 1-15 in Zootaxa 1874</i> on pages 10-14, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/184062">10.5281/zenodo.184062</a>
Neoephydra pravoneura Hendel, New Combination
No full text20. Neoephydra pravoneura (Hendel), New Combination Figs. 88–91, Map 20 Ephydra pravoneura Hendel 1930: 150. Dimecoenia pravoneura.— Hendel 1933: 223 [generic combination].— Mathis and Zatwarnicki 1995: 138 –239 [world catalog, as a synonym of D. caesia]. Dimecoenia caesia in part of authors [misidentification], not van der Wulp 1883: 58.— Cresson 1935: 352 [review].— Oliveira 1954 a: 188 [list].— Wirth 1968: 23 [Neotropical catalog].— Mathis and Zatwarnicki 1995: 238 –239 [world catalog]. Diagnosis. Specimens of N. pravoneura are distinguished from similar congeners of the araucaria group by the following characters: appearance generally dark, particularly the legs; face moderately setose; gena moderately short; and structures of male terminalia with distinctive conformation. Medium-sized to moderately large shore flies, body length 3.50–4.30 mm; generally dull, grayish brown to gray with some subshiny areas dorsally. Head: Head ratio 0.71–0.75; frontal ratio 0.52–0.55; mesofrons with dark, brassy, blackish blue to green, metallic luster; ocellar triangle and parafrons nearly concolorous, microtomentose, brownish gray to charcoal gray; parafrons becoming more charcoal colored anteriorly; fronto-orbits with narrow strip through insertions of frontoorbital setae subshiny, with some faint metallic luster; number of fronto-orbital setae 2. Antenna mostly concolorous, blackish brown. Facial ratio 0.89–0.92; mostly moderately setulose particularly along oral margin and toward posteroventral portions of face; dorsum of interfoveal hump with subshiny area more or less concolorous with mesofrons, otherwise face densely microtomentose, brownish gray to gray, gradually paler ventrally. Eye ratio 0.89–0.93; gena-to-eye ratio 0.28–0.32; gena moderately short, coloration gray to whitish gray but with faint tinges of olivaceous green. Thorax: Mostly microtomentose; mesonotum darker, mostly brassy brown, darker and subshinier posteriorly; anterior margin microtomentose, gray to bluish gray, subshiny luster concolorous with mesofrons; pleural areas paler, more gray colored ventrally; anepisternum either with central area and dorsal margin brownish and otherwise olivaceous to faintly bluish gray or mostly olivaceous to bluish gray; other pleural areas including coxae mostly whitish gray, concolorous. Wing length averaging 3.85–3.93 mm; mostly very palely infuscate, faintly grayish brown; costal vein ratio 0.20–0.25; M vein ratio 0.73–0.77. Legs dark generally; femora mostly gray, microtomentose, only slightly darker than ventral pleural areas; tibiae and tarsi reddish yellow, sometimes thinly microtomentose. Abdomen: Generally microtomentose and unicolorous, grayish olivaceous green to gray, becoming paler toward lateral margins, some specimens with faint bluish tinges of metallic luster; ventral surface of tergites frequently whitish gray. Tergite 5 of male somewhat trapezoidal, truncate apically. Male terminalia (Figs. 88–91): margins of epandrium in posterior view roughly parallel, tapered medially just before merger with surstyli, rounded dorsally; surstyli in posterior view roughly forming isosceles triangle, longer than wide, with apical half as 2, narrow, elongate processes with a narrow gap between; surstylus in lateral view twice as long as wide, robustly elongate, curved apically, tapered to a point, lateral prong elongate, length equal to width of base of surstylus, curved, bearing an apical, long tuft of setulae, wide gap from by lateral prong with setulae; lateral margin between lateral prong and apex of surstylus with shallowly produced and bearing short setulae. Type material. The lectotype male of Ephydra pravoneura Hendel, here designated to stabilize and make more universal the use of this name, is labeled “Sierra Cordoba Arg[entina]. VII 25. Lind. D[eutschen]. Chaco- Exped [black border white label]/ Ephydra pravoneura Hend. Ƌ [handwritten]/Coll. Hendel/ LECTOTYPE Ephydra pravoneura Hendel Ƌ [red, handwritten].” Both the lectotype and paralectotype are deposited in the NMW and are in excellent condition. One female paralectotype, here designated, bears the same label data as the lectotype except for the ♀ sex symbol and the paralectotype label. Both specimens are double mounted (minute nadel); the abdomen of the lectotype has been removed and dissected (total length before dissection 3.48 mm), the structures are in an attached microvial. MAP 20. Distribution map for Neoephydra pravoneura (Hendel). Type locality. Argentina. Córdoba: Córdoba (31 ° 24 'S, 64 ° 11 'W). Additional specimens examined. ARGENTINA. Buenos Aires: Bahia Blanca (38 ° 43 'S, 62 ° 17 'W), 12 Nov 1970, M. L. de Grosso (4 ♂, 3 ♀; FML); Baradero, Balneario Municipal (33 ° 47.8 'S, 59 ° 31.2 'W), 15 Dec 1979, C. M. and O. S. Flint, Jr. (1 ♀; USNM); Berisso (34 ° 52 'S, 57 ° 53 'W), 3 Feb 1970, M. L. de Grosso (9 ♂, 8 ♀; FML); Buenos Aires (34 ° 40 'S, 58 ° 24 'W), 11 Nov 1946, K. Hayward (3 ♂, 3 ♀; USNM); Chascomús (1 km S; Cabeza de Vaca; 35 ° 35 'S, 58 °01'W), 28 Nov 1979, C. M. and O. S. Flint, Jr. (6 ♂, 8 ♀; USNM); Chascomús (N Arroyo Vitel; 35 ° 34 'S, 58 °01'W), 27–28 Nov 1979, C. M. and O. S. Flint, Jr. (3 ♂, 1 ♀; USNM); General Gelly (3 km S Arroyo del Medio; 33 ° 36 'S, 60 ° 36 'W), 14 Dec 1979, C. M. and O. S. Flint, Jr. (1 ♀; USNM); Manuel J. Cobo (17 km NW Arroyo Las Encadenadas; 35 ° 51.9 'S, 57 ° 54 'W), 29 Nov 1979, C. M. and O. S. Flint, Jr. (3 ♀; USNM); Médanos (38 ° 50 'S, 62 ° 41 'W), 11 Nov 1946, K. Hayward (3 ♂, 11 ♀; USNM). Cordoba: INTA Experimental Station near Manfredi (31 ° 50 'S, 63 ° 45 'W), 7 Dec 1967, C. R. Ward (4 ♂, 4 ♀; USNM). Corrientes: Manantiales (27 ° 57 'S, 58 °08'W), 7 Nov 1949, M. L. Aczel (1 ♂; USNM). Neuquen: Zapala (38 ° 54 'S, 70 °04'W), 19–22 Dec 1946 (3 Ƌ, 1 ♀; USNM). Rio Negro: Pichi Mahiuda, Río Colorado (39 ° 50 'S, 22 °08'W), 14 Dec 1946, K. Hayward (3 ♂, 6 ♀; USNM). BRAZIL. Paraná: Bocaiúva do Sul (ca. 10 km NW; 25 ° 14.9 'S, 49 °08.9'W; 890 m), 2–4 Nov 2010, D. and W. N. Mathis (1 ♀; USNM); Prainha (5 km S Matinhos; 25 ° 51.2 'S, 48 ° 33.6 'W; beach), 15 Nov 2010, D. and W. N. Mathis (2 ♂, 2 ♀; DZUP, USNM); Rio Mae Catira, Serra do Mar (25 ° 21.8 'S, 48 ° 52.6 'W), 29 Aug 2000, D. and W. N. Mathis (1 ♂; USNM). Rio Grande do Sul: Pelotas (31 ° 40 'S, 52 ° 20 'W), C. Biezanko (1 Ƌ, AMNH). BOLIVIA. Cochabamba: Cochabamba (16 ° 23.3 'S, 66 °07'W), Apr 1965, T. Steinbach (11 ♂, 16 ♀; USNM); Cochabamba (17 ° 23.3 'S, 66 °07'W; 2610 m), 25 Mar 2001, W. N. Mathis (1 ♂, 1 ♀; USNM); Parotani (17 ° 34 'S, 66 ° 21 'W), 25 May 1990, A. Visinoni (1 ♂, 2 ♀; ROSSI). CHILE. O'Higgins: Rancaqua (23 km N; 33 ° 50 'S, 70 ° 44.5 'W), 21 Dec 1950, E. S. Ross, A. E. Michelbacher (6 ♂, 2 ♀; USNM). PARAGUAY. Distrito Federal: Asunción (25 ° 15.9 'S, 57 ° 40 'W), 23–25 Mar 1986, M. Pogue, A. Solis (2 ♂, 2 ♀; USNM). URUGUAY. Maldonado: Maldonado (34 ° 54 'S, 54 ° 57 'W; on sandy beach), 11 Oct 1941, H. L. Parker (2 ♂, 3 ♀; USNM). Distribution (Map 20): Neotropical: Argentina (Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Corrientes, Rio Negro), Brazil (Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul), Bolivia (Cochabamba), Chile (O'Higgins), Paraguay (Distrito Federal), Uruguay (Maldonado). Widespread in southern South America between 17–39 °S and 52 °– 72 °W. Remarks. Considerable color variation is evident for this species, which is widespread, and we have generally had to rely on characters of the male terminalia for specific determinations. Hendel (1930) first described this species in the genus Ephydra then transferred it to Dimecoenia (Hendel 1933), and here we transfer it to Neoephydra.Published as part of Mathis, Wayne N. & Marinoni, Luciane, 2016, Revision of Ephydrini Zetterstedt (Diptera: Ephydridae) from the Americas south of the United States, pp. 1-110 in Zootaxa 4116 (1) on pages 64-67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4116.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/25732
A study of the philosophy and practices of group work as seen through articles in the national conference proceedings between the years 1935 and 1946, 1946
No full textFrom Whole Cloth: Meaning and Community
No full textPlanned housing developments can be seen as structurally complete communities, but this fails to take account of the meanings created through interaction. What does it mean for a woman to choose to keep her name at marriage? And it pass it on to her children later? The author argues that Mead’s contribution to Durkheim’s understanding of meaning lies in the fact that he describes both how structures of meaning are passed on and how they are maintained. Further, the aspect of Mead’s conception of the mind, namely the T, will serve as a way of understanding how change is possible. The author also turns to Weber, who developed the idea that communities are necessary for changes in meaning to be realized. Methodology includes a presentation of two complementary examples, one challenging the view of meaning as coming from the community as a whole to the individual, the second suggesting that individuals alone cannot create meaning with communal interaction
British immigration control procedures and Jewish refugees 1933-1942.
No full textPhDThis thesis is an historical account of the British
government's regulation of the immigration to the United
Kingdom of Jewish refugees in flight from Nazi persecution.
The focus of the study is the administration of immigration
controls, with particular emphasis on the groups of refugees
for whom entry was possible and the conditions subject to
which they were admitted. The administrative process is also
examined in the context of policy. The results of the
government's efforts to control the influx are set against
policy goals, in order to assess both the extent to which
the quest for control was successful, and the extent to
which it led to unintended consequences. The relationship
between policy and procedure is thus a key theme of this
study.
The bulk of the thesis is concerned with policy-making and
administration within government, and is based on documents
in the Public Record Office(PRO). Other sources used include
private papers of ministers and officials, records of Jewish
organisations, archives of refugee committees and
interviews, listed in the bibliography. The material largely
concerns the work of Whitehall departments, interdepartmental
relations and activities at Cabinet-level. Home
Office policy and practice are covered in particular detail.
The contributions of other government departments,
particularly the Foreign Office, the Ministry of Labour and
the Treasury, are also discussed. Another important topic is
the policy-making and administrative role of nongovernmental
organisations, especially refugee committees.
The introduction is followed by a chapter outlining the
legal and administrative history of immigration control
since 1905. succeeding chapters deal chronologically with
the British response to the immigration of Jewish refugees
from 1933 to 1942. The conclusion discusses whether British
policy was humanitarian or self-interested. Two appendixes
contain brief biographical notes on persons relevant to the
thesis and a list of Home Secretaries and Home Office
Permanent Under Secretaries
Aglaostigma alboplagiatum, nouvelle espèce des Alpes et du Massif central (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae)
No full textAglaostigma alboplagiatum new species from french Alpes and Massif central (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae).
The author describes a new species of genus Aglaostigma Kirby from Alps and Massif central in France. Then he compares it with three closely related species, Aglaostigma lichtwardti (Konow, 1891) Ross, 1937, A. pingue (Klug, 1817) Benson, 1946, and A. alpinum (Thomson, 1871) Taeger & Blank, 1996.L’auteur décrit une nouvelle espèce d'Aglaostigma Kirby capturée en France, dans les Alpes et le Massif central. Ensuite il la compare à trois espèces proches, Aglaostigma lichtwardti (Konow, 1891) Ross, 1937, A. pingue (Klug, 1817) Benson, 1946, et A. alpinum (Thomson, 1871) Taeger & Blank, 1996.Lacourt Jean. Aglaostigma alboplagiatum, nouvelle espèce des Alpes et du Massif central (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae). In: Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, volume 103 (2), juin 1998. pp. 187-190
Zoshchenko, Mikhail
No full textMikhail Zoshchenko was a Soviet writer of short stories and tales (sometimes autobiographical), as well as a feuilletonist, memoirist, and dramatist. He was a member of the Serapion Brothers writers’ collective. Zoshchenko was best known for his hilarious lampooning of Soviet bureaucracy and the rampant scam artists of the 1920s. In the 1930s, his works were increasingly subjected to censorship and criticism. Evacuated from Leningrad during World War Two, he spent part of the war in Alma Ata (Kazakhstan). In 1946 his career was dramatically curtailed by Communist Party statesman Andrei Zhdanov, who led a public campaign of criticism against Zoshchenko and the poet Anna Akhmatova. Deprived of his membership in the Soviet Writers’ Union, and hence his right to earn a living as an author, Zoshchenko died in 1958
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