The authors wish to thank Professor C. C. Lin, of the Department of Geology, and Professor Wen-hsun Sung, of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, National Taiwan University, for collaboration in the field. A comprehensive report of the 1964-66 work is being prepared and will appear under the title Fengpitou, Tapenkeng, and the Prehistory of Formosa. For preliminary reports besides th...

Thirty strains of penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae (PPNG) were detected by a rapid iodometric method out of 206 strains isolated from patients with gonorrhoea between January and December 1981. Of the 30 patients, five of the nine women were prostitutes and 14 of the 21 men were infected by prostitutes in or around Fukuoka City, with the exception of one who was infected in Formosa...

The araneomorph spider family Palpimanidae is reported from Bolivia for the first time. Two new species: Otiothops kathiae and O. naokii are described and illustrated based on specimens recently collected in Santa Cruz Department. Additionally, Fernandezina pulchra Birabén, 1951 previously known only from Formosa, in northern Argentina, is newly recorded from Santa Cruz, and the female is descr...

The Neotropical genus Chaetocnemistoptera is herein revised. Five new species are described-C. lobata, sp. nov., C. magdalena, sp. nov., C. phaeonota, sp. nov., C. pityropyga, sp. nov., C. trichopoda, sp. nov. The hypopygia of the previously described Chaetocnemistoptera palpalis (Borgmeier) and C. formosa (Borgmeier) are illustrated. The female holotype of Chaetocnemistoptera semifurcata (Borg...