中国钩蛾科一新记录种（鳞翅目：钩蛾科）

本文首次报道了采于中国海南一新记录种白横迷钩蛾Microblepsis cupreogrisea (Hampson, 1895)。该种隶属于钩蛾科Drepanidae迷钩蛾属Microblepsis Warren, 1922，对成虫外部形态和外生殖器特征进行了简要描述，并提供其图片。研究标本保存于华南农业大学资源环境学院昆虫学系。     

中国线波纹蛾属研究及二新种一新亚种记述(鳞翅目,钩蛾科,波纹蛾亚科)

研究了中国线波纹蛾属Wernya Yoshimoto,1987,记述2新种,巨钩线波纹蛾W.hamigigantea sp.nov.,曲线波纹蛾W.cyrtoma sp.nov.,中国1新纪录种及其1新亚种,灰褐线波纹蛾海南亚种W.griseochrysa hainanensis subsp.nov.;修订了纽线波纹蛾W.thailandica Yoshimoto,1987在中国分布的亚种;取消了W.solena(Swinhoe,1894)和W.punctata Yoshimoto,1987在中国的分布记录。给出中国线波纹蛾属7种2亚种的检索表。     

赞青尺蛾属修订及其分布格局分析（鳞翅目：尺蛾科：尺蛾亚科）

本文对赞青尺蛾属Xenozancla Warren, 1893进行研究,重新描述了属、种特征,总结了属的鉴别特征;描述了种内雄外生殖器的变化并附图,提供了成虫形态、外生殖器图。提出银尺蛾属Yinchie Yang, 1978和枣灰银尺蛾Y. zaohuiYang, 1978 分别是赞青尺蛾属Xenozancla 和赞青尺蛾X. vericolor Warren 的新异名,并为赞青尺蛾X. vericolor Warren指定了选模。同时,采用临近距离平均法（mean propinquity method）结合GIS技术绘制了赞青尺蛾属分布格局图,并据此分析了其分布格局和分布特点,结果表明：该属为亚洲东部特有属,呈西南 华北走向;它在中国华北、华中、西南地区至印度可能存在一个连续的分布区,其分布格局应属于东洋界的东南亚热带-亚热带型。     

中国新纪录的谷蛾(鳞翅目,谷蛾科)

记述了华南谷蛾科1新纪录亚科聪谷蛾亚科Harmacloninae Davis,1998(中文名源于其共同衍征,第2腹节上具鼓膜状听器)及该亚科的模式属聪谷蛾属Harmaclona Busck,1914,进而记述了1新纪录种潜孔聪谷蛾Harmaclona tephramtha(Meyrick,1916)(中文名源于其生物学特性-幼虫在山檨子属植物Buchanania Roxb.的原木上钻孔,成儿英寸长的隧道,营潜生生活),以及中国谷蛾科Tineidae Latreille,1810谷蛾亚科Tineinae Latreille,1810 1新纪录属户鞘谷蛾属Phereoeca Hinton et Bradley,1956(中文名源于其模式种的英文通用名"household casebearer")及该属的模式种户鞘谷蛾Pherepeca uterella(Walsingham,1897).研究标本保存于湖南农业大学昆虫研究所.     

中国尺蛾亚科三新记录属研究（鳞翅目： 尺蛾科）

本文记述中国尺蛾亚科3新记录属及3新记录种： 羚尺蛾Absala dorcada Swinhoe,双弓尺蛾Calleremites subornata Warren,巨尺蛾Pachista superans (Butler)。总结了每个属、种的形态特征;为羚尺蛾 Absala dorcada Swinhoe和巨尺蛾 Pachista superans (Butler) 指定了选模。     

中国片尺蛾属分类订正并记三新纪录种(鳞翅目：尺蛾科：灰尺蛾亚科)

记录中国分布的片尺蛾属6种,并记述中国3新纪录种：黑片尺蛾Fascellina porphyreofusa Hampson, 1895; F. inornata Warren, 1893; F. rectimarginata Warren, 1894。文中提供了属种描述和鉴别特征,给出了种检索表及成虫和外生殖器图。     

中国凹宽蛾属修订(鳞翅目,小潜蛾科,宽蛾亚科)

对中国凹宽蛾属Acria Meyrick进行了修订,共报道该属昆虫5种,包括2新种:等叉凹宽蛾A.equibicruris Wang,sp.nov.和喙腹凹宽蛾A.ornithorrhyncha Wang,sp.nov.。成虫照片和雌性外生殖器特征图一并给出,并提供了中国已知种类检索表。研究标本包括新种模式标本保存在南开大学昆虫标本室。     

中国扁刺蛾属分类研究(鳞翅目,刺蛾科)

整理出中国扁刺蛾属12种,其中玛扁刺蛾Th.magna Hering、祺扁刺蛾Th.cheesmanae Holloway、泰扁刺蛾Th.siamica Holloway、叉瓣扁刺蛾Th.styx Holloway、明脉扁刺蛾Th.sythoffi Snellen及棕扁刺蛾Th.vetusinua Holloway为中国新纪录种。将Quasithosea Holloway,1987作为扁刺蛾属Thosea Walker,1855的同物异名处理,编制了中国已知种检索表,提供了新纪录种的彩色照片及外生殖器解剖图。     

中国锥羽蛾属研究及三新种记述(鳞翅目,羽蛾科)

锥羽蛾属Gillmeria全世界已记录13种,除G.omissalis(Fletcher)分布于澳大利亚外,其余12种均分布在全北区,而G.pallidactyla(Haworth)在巴西也有记录.我国原记录有4种,本文记述8种,包括3新种和中国1新纪录种.新种为:楔锥羽蛾G cuneiformis sp.nov.,点斑锥羽蛾G.fuscata sp.nov.和佛坪锥羽蛾G.fopingensis sp.nov.新纪录种环锥羽蛾G.ochrodactyla(Denis &Schiffermüller).文中给出了中国锥羽蛾属的分种检索表,并提供了成虫图和外生殖器特征图.研究标本及模式标本分别保存在南开大学生物系昆虫标本室和中国科学院动物研究所昆虫标本馆.     

点展足蛾属在中国的首次记录及一新种记述（鳞翅目：织蛾科，展足蛾亚科）

首次报道了点展足蛾属Hieromantis Meyrick在中国的分布,记述了新种申点展足蛾Hieromantis sheni Li et Wang, sp. Nov.和中国新记录种洁点展足蛾Hieromantis kurokoi Yasuda, 1988（分布于河南,陕西,河北,湖北）,并绘制了两性外生殖器图。模式标本保存在南开大学生物系标本室。     

CATENOPHLYCTIS,A NEW GENUS OF THE CATENARIACEAE

Catenophlyctis gen. nov. is established in the family Catenariaceae to include the fungus previously known as Phlyctorhiza variabilis Karling. This ubiquitous saprophyte was formerly included in the genus Phlyctorhiza Hanson of the Chytridiales on the grounds that its eucarpic thallus is predominantly monocentric and because it develops usually from an enlargement of the germ tube. Additional studies on this species in India have confirmed the previous observations that the thallus of some strains frequently becomes extensively polycentric and Catenaria-like. Also, its zoospores have been found to be similar in structure to those of species of the Catenariaceae. Accordingly, this species cannot be retained in Phlyctorhiza as Hanson defined the genus, and it is transferred from the Chytridiales to a new genus of the family Catenariaceae in the order Blastocladiales.     

HETEROGENEITY OF THE CYANOBACTERIAL GENUS SYNECHOCYSTIS AND DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS,GEMINOCYSTIS1

The study and revision of the unicellular cyanobacterial genus Synechocystis was based on the type species S. aquatilis Sauv. and strain PCC 6803, a reference strain for this species. Uniformity in rRNA gene sequence, morphology, and ultrastructure was observed in all available Synechocystis strains, with the exception of the strain PCC 6308, which has been considered by some to be a model strain for Synechocystis. This strain differs substantially from the typical Synechocystis cluster according to both molecular (<90% of similarity, differences in 16S–23S rRNA internal transcribed spacer [ITS] secondary structure) and phenotypic criteria (different ultrastructure of cells). This strain is herein classified into the new genus Geminocystis gen. nov., as a sister taxon to the genus Cyanobacterium. Geminocystis differs from Cyanobacterium by genetic position (<94.4% of similarity) and more importantly by its different type of cell division. Because strain PCC 6308 was designated as a reference strain of the Synechocystis cluster 1 in Bergey’s Manual, the members of this genetic cluster have to be revised and reclassified into Geminocystis gen. nov. Only the members of the Synechocystis cluster 2 allied with PCC 6803 correspond both genetically and phenotypically to the type species of the genus Synechocystis (S. aquatilis).     

MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS PROTOSTELIUM

Three new species of Protostelium (Order Protostelida of the Mycetozoa) are described: P. irregularis, P. zonatura, and P. pyriformis, all with rather wide distribution and occurring on dead attached plant parts, less often in soil and humus. The latter two species differ from the first and from the other two known species, P. mycophaga Olive and Stoianovitch and P. arachisporum Olive, in the endogenous origin of the stalk. P. mycophaga var. crassipes, with vesicular stalk bases, is the third variety of that species to be described. A key to the genus is included.     

EVOLUTION OF THE GENUS CHRYSOCOCCYX

Modern geological ideas on ocean-floor spreading are briefly reviewed. Pangea began to break up at the end of the Trias, but Africa, Antarctica and Australia remained together or close to each other till the end of the Cretaceous. The position of western New Guinea at the start of the Miocene could have been approximately where Arnhem Land is now, and at the start of the Pliocene somewhat north of the present-day Aru Islands. Its size until the end of the Pliocene was much smaller than it is today. Friedmann's proposal for the evolutionary spread of Chrysococcyx therefore demands that the whole process occurred since about the start of the Pliocene. There may not have been enough time in these seven million years for the evolutionary dispersal of a genus of parasitic cuckoos halfway round the world. His proposal also regards C. osculans as an awkward throw-back, and leaves a gap between species in New Guinea and southeastern Asia that is not bridged by intermediates. If a stock of cuckoos had been in Gondwanaland before it broke up, that stock could have given rise to the genus Cacomantis and the forerunners of C. osculans. The lineage of osculans would have quickly given rise to a lineage of glossy cuckoos that then divided into two branches. One could have penetrated Africa, south of where Madagascar then was, produced the species klaas, cupreus, caprius and flavigularis (an aberrant end-product), and much later, after Madagascar had drifted south from India (having been separate from Africa since the Cretaceous), colonised Asia where maculatus and xanthorhynchus would have differentiated. The other line could have differentiated, perhaps more slowly, in Australia into basalts, lucidus, ruficollis and malayanut (minutillus). When Australia had drifted near enough to the Malay Archipelago and as New Guinea grew, ruficollis and minutillus could have moved forward to colonise the islands, where minutillus would have produced the many races oimalayanus and meyerii differentiated as an aberrant end-product. This proposal overcomes some of the objections to Friedmann's theory because it arranges events to accord better with geological developments and avoids the evolutionary discontinuities of his proposal. The migratory habits of the cuckoos, thought by Friedmann to be significant, are discounted as evidence for evolutionary history. The parasitic habits are re-interpreted. Better data are presented for the parasitic behaviour of basalis and lucidus; they suggest that both species are sophisticated and probably host-specific parasites. Jensen & Jensen (1969) have already given evidence that some African glossy cuckoos are highly host-specific. There seems to be a trend of decreasing parasitic sophistication in Australian species, correlated with the possible age of the species. In Africa parasitism seems to be far in advance of that in Australia, probably because the opportunities for parasitism are far better in Africa. These trends and differences in parasitic behaviour are compatible with an evolutionary spread from Gondwanaland. The crucial question is whether the stock of Cacomantis and Chrysococcyx could have existed before the break-up of Gondwanaland, i.e. before the early Eocene. The present fossil record suggests that this is unlikely, but the paucity of fossils and the difficulties of palaeoclimates do not seem to be insuperable and it is suggested that a southern origin for these cuckoos should be considered seriously.