The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma ... ed. by W.T. Blanford

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Descriptions of Genera and Species 17 * Note. -" Carin " was the spelling employed by Leonardo Fea for "Karen." Just as the last sheets of this volume are being printed off, the editors have received, through the courtesy of Dr. R. G-estro of the Genoa Museum, a copy of a biographical article by him on the collector Fea, extracted from Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xli, 1904, pp. 95-152. In this article, pp. 98-100, is a quotation from Fea's own previously published (1895) book on his travels in Burma, in which it is explained that Carin Cheba, Carin Asciuii-Ghecu, Carin Ghecii, and Carin Asciuii-Cheba-names which frequently occur in many works after descriptions of species collected by Fea are "tribes or varieties" of Karens.The elevations of villages in these districts are given by Fea, and the names of the tribes are shown on a map of the Karenni country at the end of Dr. Gestro's article. * [Among comparatively recent illustrations of the larvae and 'pupa? of European species may be mentioned the following in Eeitter, 'Fauna Germanica; Eater,' vol. iv, 1912 : Gastroidea. poli/goni, pi. 144, fig. 9 ; Plagiodera versicolor and Melasoma, tremulce, pi. 146, figs. 9-16. -Eds. J t See also K. W. Verhoeff, " Ueber die Organisation und Entwicklung der Chrvsomeliden Melasoma populi unci Thyllodecta vitellines": Arch. Naturg.

Endangered Greater One‐horned Rhinoceros Carry High Levels of Genetic Variation

“…By the late nineteenth century extensive land clearing and hunting fragmented their range and eliminated R unicornis from all areas but the Chitwan Valley, lowland Bhutan, the Teesta Valley, West Bengal, and the Brahmaputra Valley in Assam, India (Blanford 1888). In the Chitwan Valley at least 1,000 individuals of R unicornis persisted until about 1950, when poaching and land clearing after malaria eradication caused their decline to an estimated low of 60-80 survivors in 1962 (Laurie 1978;H.…”

New records of geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Myanmar based on DNA barcodes and morphological data

“…Distribution. India: Darjeeling, Sikkim, and Naga Hills; Thailand; Indonesia: Sumatra (Hampson 1895, Parsons et al 1999, Koçak and Kemal 2010, Stüning 2010 and Myanmar: Kachin.…”

“…However, the Indo-Burmese fauna of Lepidoptera is poorly known, particularly concerning large, complex taxonomy such as Geometridae. There are some works covering the geometrid fauna of certain regions such as northern India (Hampson 1895), China (Han and Xue 2011a) and Borneo (Holloway 1993(Holloway , 1996, but there is a lack of recent publications on the fauna of Myanmar. Notwithstanding, in a book by Hampson (1895) which is mainly focused on geometrid fauna of India, there are some data in a poorly detailed study of Myanmar geometrid moths.…”

Phylogeny of the great cats (Felidae: Pantherinae), and the influence of fossil taxa and missing characters

“…46: Contracted pupil narrow and slit‐like (0) or round (1); Neofelis has a less round pupil than Panthera , and it is often described as oval. See Gray (1867), Blanford (1888), Guggisberg (1975).…”