Charles Darwin began The Origin of Species with a chapter entitled variation under domestication, which encapsulated decades of his research on a diverse array of animal and plant domesticated species. Variation in these species compared with that in their wild relatives, their origins and their selection by humans, formed a paradigm for his theory of the evolutionary origin of species by means...

In this article, we describe a new species, Patania shompen Singh & Ahmad, sp. n. from Great Nicobar Island. The differential diagnosis of the species is provided with iopasalis (Walker, 1859), obfuscalis (Yamanaka, 1998) and clava Xu Du, 2016.

The genus Locastra Walker, 1859 from China is reviewed. Of the five species treated, four species are described as new: L. nigrilineatasp. n., L. solivagasp. n., L. subtrapeziasp. n. and L. viridissp. n. A diagnosis of L. muscosalis (Walker, 1866) is given. Photographs of adults and the genitalia are provided, along with a key to the five Chinese species treated.

The purpose of this article is to point out a mistake in the published paper Graphs hyperbolic groups and limit set intersection theorem- Proc AMS, vol 146, no 5, pp 1859--1871, which subsequently weakens main theorem that paper. We state prove weaker result note.

The paper examines mortality patterns in the city of Hermoupolis, on Greek island Syros, from 1859 to 1940. It produces important new insights into Mediterranean urban historical demography and is first comprehensive study Greece, utilising largest one longest time series at individual level yet calculated civil registration census data. Abridged life tables were constructed for a settlement, e...