Of the 1631 white prisoners admitted during the same period, there were 73 deaths, or about 4|percent, of the whole number; the per-centage in different years varying as in the case of the coloured. Thus, in 1830, the per-centage is 4.19; in 1831,4.18; in 1832, 1.44; in 1833, 1.11; in 1834, .80; in 1835, 1.20; in 1830, .99; 1837, 3.00, &c., &c. The average mortality of the white population of t...

Knowledge on the taxonomic diversity and distribution of blowflies from the Madeira Archipelago is updated. New and interesting findings are reported for poorly studied islands and islets of this archipelago, together with a brief analysis of the diversity of Macaronesian Calliphoridae s. l. Seven blowfly species were collected during this study, including the first records of Calliphora vicina...

Agria mihalyii (Rohdendorf and Verves, 1978) is recorded from China for the first time, and both sexes are thoroughly documented using a combination of illustrations, photographs and scanning electron microscopy images. The generic affiliation is corroborated from an expanded definition of genus Agria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830, and a key to males of the two known species from China is provided. T...

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This revision is part of a continuing series taxonomic work aimed at the description new taxa and redescription known Tachinidae Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica. Here we describe 33 species genus Belvosia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (Diptera: Tachinidae). All described here were reared from this ongoing inventory wild-caught caterpillars spanning variety families (Lepidop...

A new tachinid species, Linnaemya bergstroemi n. sp., is described from the Finnish Lapland. The new species closely resembles the Nearctic species Linnaemya anthracina Thompson, but can be readily distinguished from it by the characters described in this paper. The taxonomic placement of the two species is discussed in the light of morphological and CoI sequence similarities with Linnaemya Rob...

The significance of brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr (Diprotodontia: Phalangeridae) carcasses to the succession and production of Diptera species and its relevance to fly strike management in Tasmania, Australia was examined. Calliphora stygia (Fabricius), Lucilia sericata (Meigen) and Calliphora vicina Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Calliphoridae) were found to be the most abundant an...