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A new species of the genus Clypeuspinus Balkenohl, 2021 (Coleoptera: Carabidae Scaritinae) from India
No full textNeethu, V.P., Sabu, K. Thomas (2023): A new species of the genus Clypeuspinus Balkenohl, 2021 (Coleoptera: Carabidae Scaritinae) from India. Zootaxa 5296 (4): 589-594, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5296.4.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5296.4.
Clypeuspinus devagiriensis Neethu & Sabu 2023, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Clypeuspinus devagiriensis</i> sp. nov. <p>(Fig. 3A–E)</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> Holotype male, Paratypes 4 ex. (2 males; 2 females). Labelled: “ India: Kerala: Mavoor wetland, Palliyol (11.2604° N, 75.9391° E), ‘Light trap’, 21.ix.2021. coll. V. P. Neethu ”, deposited in ZSIK.</p> <p> <b>Description.</b> Dorsal and ventral habitus as in Fig. 3A, B.</p> <p>Head, pronotum, elytral margin, elytral suture, profemurs and tibiae dark reddish brown. Meso and metacoxae, femurs and metatrochanters light reddish-brown. Antennae, labial palpi, maxillary palpi, protarsomers, meso and metatibiae and tarsomeres yellowish brown. Elytral disc black. Abdominal ventrites dark brown.</p> <p>Head elongated, smaller than pronotum. Surface smooth, with scattered micropunctures. Labrum three setose with isodiametric meshes. Clypeus straight, margin not bordered, clypeal suture indistinct, wings extending forward and rounded at apex, obtuse emargination between clypeus and clypeal wings blunt, clypeal setigerous punctures situated at anterior part of frontal furrows. Supra antennal plates elongate with reflexed margin in posterior half. Frons elongated and convex, frontal furrows deep. Vertex convex with fine micropuntures. Supra orbital carinae sharp. Supra orbital furrows deep and wide, with two supra orbital setae. Eyes normally developed, genae as long as eyes. Neck constriction complete, composed of large punctures. Antennae reaching up to middle of pronotum, pubescent from third antennomere onwards, antennomeres four to eleven moniliform, pedicellus attached eccentrically to scapus, scapus with setae at apical quarter. Mandibles elongated and curved apically. Apical maxillary palpomeres elongated, slightly securiform, with slightly truncated end. Penultimate labial palpomeres bisetose. Mentum and submentum separated. Mentum wide with two pairs of setae (a pair towards base of median tooth, another pair towards base of mentum), median tooth moderately wide and truncate at apex, projecting as far as lateral lobes, lateral lobes wide with rugose surface. Submentum quadrisetose. Genae with dense rugosities.</p> <p>Pronotum pentagonal in shape, moderately convex, surface glabrous, glossy with scattered micropunctures and transverse wrinkles, front angles produced, hind angles with a small denticle breaking through the outline, anterior transverse line deep and well impressed with large punctures, median line deep and wide, joining with basal constriction, lateral channel widened between two lateral setigerous punctures. Reflexed lateral margins, flange carinate.</p> <p>Elytra moderately convex, elongate, nearly parallel, well-marked shoulders with distinct humeral tooth, scutellar strioles moderately developed, striae deep and punctuated, stria one joining to setigerous basal tubercle, striae two and three free at base, striae four and five fused at base, striae one and seven reaching apex, interval eight carinate from humerus to apex, intervals six and seven carinate at humerus only, intervals two, three and four with distinct basal tubercle, interval three with two setigerous punctures close to third stria, with reflexed lateral margins, marginal channels with uninterrupted series of setigerous punctures, extreme apex of elytra with isodiametric meshes. Hind wings fully developed</p> <p>Ventral side (Fig. 3B): Prosternal surface rugose, with isodiametric meshes at disc. Proepisternum with coarse punctures and rugosities. Prosternal process wide. Metasternum glossy, with transverse wrinkles and micropunctures. Metepisternum longer than wide. Abdominal ventrites smooth and glossy, third to fifth ventrites with a pair of median setae, last ventrite with variable number of median setae (ranges from zero to three) and with a pair of widely separated apical setigerous punctures on each side.</p> <p>Protibiae with three terminal spines, slender, curved laterally. Metatibiae with long protuberance preapically furnished with seta. Claws simple. Tarsomeres not widened in both sexes.</p> <p>Male genitalia: Median lobe well curved, pointed towards apex, right paramere wider than left paramere, both parameres bisetose at apex (Fig. 3C–E).</p> <p>Sexual dimorphism: Not externally visible.</p> <p> <b>Measurements.</b> Holotype (male), TLB = 6.06 mm, PL = 1.52 mm, PW = 1.55 mm, EL = 3.30 mm, EW = 1.73 mm; Paratype <b>(</b> n=4 <b>),</b> TLB = 5.69–6.38 mm, PL = 1.41–1.61 mm, PW = 1.43–1.62 mm, EL = 3.08–3.53 mm, EW = 1.62–1.79 mm.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> Named after the host institution's local name, Devagiri College.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> Similar to <i>Clypeuspinus validus</i> but differs in the following characters: labrum three setose (five setose in <i>C. validus</i>); obtuse emargination between clypeus and clypeal wings blunt (obtuse emargination between clypeus and clypeal wings sharp in <i>C. validus</i>); supraorbital carinae sharp blunt in <i>C. validus</i>); elytra elongate and nearly parallel (subelongate in <i>C. validus</i>); third elytral interval with two setigerous punctures (in <i>C. validus</i>, third interval of left elytron with three setigerous punctures and right elytron with four setigerous punctures); second, third and fourth intervals with distinct basal tubercle (only third interval with a distinct basal tubercle in <i>C. validus</i>).</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> INDIA: Kerala: Kozhikode: Mavoor, Palliyol.</p> <p> <i>Clypeuspinus devagiriensis</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> is the first species of the genus <i>Clypeuspinus</i> discovered from Indian mainland.</p>Published as part of <i>Neethu, V. P. & Sabu, K. Thomas, 2023, A new species of the genus Clypeuspinus Balkenohl, 2021 (Coleoptera: Carabidae Scaritinae) from India, pp. 589-594 in Zootaxa 5296 (4)</i> on pages 590-593, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5296.4.8, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/7984462">http://zenodo.org/record/7984462</a>
Thomas Grisell letter to Thomas Rotch, 2nd mo 19th 1823
No full textThomas Grisell's letter reached the Rotch household several months before the unexpected death of Thomas Rotch in August, 1823. This is the last letter of the series and presumably the author learned of his friend's death before another letter was penned. 7.95" x 10" (20.2 by 25.5 cm
Failed Censures: Ecclesiastical Regulation of Women’s Clothing in Late Medieval Italy
No full textChurchmen in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries tried to regulate the costume of Italian women. These efforts failed, and regulation was largely left thereafter to civic authorities.The published version was published as Chapter 3 in Medieval Clothing and Textiles 5Izbicki, Thomas M. (2009), "Failed Censures: Ecclesiastical Regulation of Women’s Clothing in Late Medieval Italy" in Netherton, Robin and Owen-Crocker, Gale R., eds., Medieval Clothing and Textiles 5 (Boydell Press), 37-53ISBN: 9781843834519 (published book)Peer reviewe
Western medieval legal manuscripts in the collections of the University of Pennsylvania
No full textWestern legal manuscripts of the Middle Ages in North American collections are among the least known to scholars. The University of Pennsylvania has a rich collection of these texts, several of which were in the collection of the historian Henry Charles Lea. Included are works of civil law and canon law, as well as collections of papal letters and guides to pastoral care. The descriptions of most of these manuscripts in the catalog of Norman P. Zacour and Rudolf Hirsch are perfunctory, sometimes erring or omitting valuable information. Other manuscripts were added in recent years in the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection. Much of this material is being added to the Franklin online catalog of the University’s libraries, but researchers frequently do not search these digital resources. This article provides more complete guidance to the University’s medieval legal manuscripts than any of the existing catalogs offers, whether in print or online. It also provides updated bibliographic information in print or online. Every manuscript has been examined by the author in situ. Among the important works represented in the collection is the Panormia (a work of canon law often attributed to Ivo of Chartres). Authors present include the curialist Thomas of Capua, canonists Petrus de Braco, William of Pagula, Bernardus Raimundi, Adam of Aldersbach, Raymond of Peñafort, and civil lawyers Baldus de Ubaldis, and Bartolus de Saxoferrato. Three of these manuscripts were owned in the past by Sir Thomas Phillipps
Forbidden Colors in the Regulation of Clerical Dress from the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) to the Time of Nicholas of Cusa (d. 1464)
No full textMedieval canon law attempted to distinguish clergy from the laity by restricting their dress choices. The article focuses on prohibition of wearing red or green on the street. Both colors were identified with the nobility.The published version was published as Chapter 7 in Medieval Clothing and Textiles 1Izbicki, Thomas M. (2005), "Forbidden Colors in the Regulation of Clerical Dress from the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) to the Time of Nicholas of Cusa (d. 1464)" in Netherton, Robin and Owen-Crocker, Gale R., eds., Medieval Clothing and Textiles 1 (Boydell Press),105-114ISBN: 9781843831235 (published book
Thomas Crutchfield account book, 1848-1861
No full textA book containing business accounts, including details about travel expenses and the purchase and sale of lumber as well as other goods and services. The author also catalogs personal spending, the dates and pricing of properties offered for rent, and the purchase and leasing of enslaved people. Many entries are consistent with the business activities of Thomas Crutchfield Sr., who died in 1850. Someone continued to make entries in the book for activities dated up to 1861
Thomas Crutchfield account book, 1848-1861
No full textA book containing business accounts, including details about travel expenses and the purchase and sale of lumber as well as other goods and services. The author also catalogs personal spending, the dates and pricing of properties offered for rent, and the purchase and leasing of enslaved people. Many entries are consistent with the business activities of Thomas Crutchfield Sr., who died in 1850. Someone continued to make entries in the book for activities dated up to 1861
Thomas Hazard Jr letter to Thomas Rotch, New York 6 mo 10, 1821
No full textThe author acknowledges receipt of letters after the Rotch return to Kendal, Ohio in the late spring of 1821. Thomas Hazard mentions that his whaling ship, Dawn, has sailed to the Pacific Ocean with 23 hands on board and provisions for three years. He hopes to visit Kendal in the Fall, he also mentions that William Rotch Jr was recovering from a fever.
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