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Book reviewed in this article: Daniel Cooper Alarcon . The Aztec Palimpsest: Mexico in the Modern Imagination. Johann P. Arnason . Social Theory and Japanese Experience: The Dual Civilization. Fernando Coronil . The Magical State: Nature, Money and Modernity in Venezuela. Carrie B. Douglass . Bulls, Bullfighting and Spanish Identities. Leela Dube . Women and Kinship: Comparative Perspectives on Gender in South and South-East Asia. Roy Ellen and Katsuyoshi Fukui (eds) . Redefining Nature: Ecology, Culture and Domestication. Melvyn C. Goldstein . The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama. Robert Hobbs . Hong Kong Now! Hal. B. Levine . Constructing Collective Identity: A Comparative Analysis of New Zealand Jews, Maori and Urban Papua New Guineans. Torben Retbell, (ed.) . East Timor: Occupation and Resistance. Anne Salmond . Between Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Maori and Europeans 1773–1815. Cathy A. Small . Voyages - From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs. William Washabaugh (ed.) . The Passion of Music and Dance: Body, Gender and Sexuality. Robert L. Welsch (ed.). An American Anthropologist in Melanesia: A. B. Lewis and the Joseph N. Field South Pacific Expedition 1909–1913.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Bain Attwood. Rights for Aborigines. Sarah Colley. Uncovering Australia: Archaeology, Indigenous People and the Public. Kirk Dombrowski. Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska. Anita Jowitt and Tess Newton Cain (eds). Passage of Change: Law, Society and Governance in the Pacific. Sinclair Dinnen with Anita Jowitt and Tess Newton Cain (eds). A Kind of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands. Bruce M. Knauft (ed.). Critically Modern: Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies. Helen Gremillion. Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center. Jean Guiart. Et le masque sortit de la mer: Les pays anciens de Hienghène à Témala, Gomèn et Koumac. Robin Hide. Pig Husbandry in New Guinea: A Literature Review and Bibliography. William Mazzarella. Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India. Louise Meintjes. Sound of Africa: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio. Sally Merry and Donald Brenneis (eds). Law and Empire in the Pacific: Fiji and Hawaii. Peter J. M. Nas, Gerard A. Persoon and Rivke Jaffe (eds). Framing Indonesian Realities: Essays in Symbolic Anthropology in Honour of Reimer Schefold. Annemarie Mol. The Body Multiple: Ontology In Medical Practice. Sherry B. Ortner. New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture and the Class of 58. Thomas C. Patterson. Marx's Ghost: Conversations with Archaeologists. Melissa Perry and Stephen Lloyd. Australian Native Title Law. Christopher Pinney and Nicolas Peterson (eds). Photography's Other Histories. Nigel Rapport. I am Dynamite: An Alternative Anthropology of Power. Renato Rosaldo (ed.). Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands. Regina Scheyvens and Donovan Storey. Development Fieldwork: A Practical Guide. David Trigger and Gareth Griffiths (eds). Disputed Territories: Land, Culture and Identity in Settler Societies. Cecilia Van Hollen. Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India.     

Maori Sport and Cultural Identity in Australia

Sport is an important aspect of cultural identity for New Zealand Maori migrants living in Australia. Maori sporting endeavours, especially at festivals such as the Taki Toa Tournament in New South Wales, often reveal distinctive Maori features of cultural performance, in the rituals prior to a game, in the spirited manner with which a game is played, and in the whânau (large/extended family) spirit of belonging and celebration that is encouraged after a game. However, notwithstanding the occasional Maori tournament or festival, Maori sporting participation in Australia is not restricted to an ‘ethnic ghetto’. Widespread Maori involvement in sport has provided an important avenue for Maori migrants to mix socially with Aboriginal and other Australians in their local communities, and to gain acceptance, respect and, in some cases, economic advancement. Many first‐generation Maori migrants display a keen sense of a New Zealand rather than an Australian identity when it comes to trans‐Tasman international sport. Transnational links are also important for Australian Maori who visit New Zealand with sporting teams and stay on various marae (tribal meeting places). The experience of ‘Maori culture’ and hospitality offered by their New Zealand kinsfolk may have a significant influence upon the sporting visitors' subsequent development of Maori cultural identity.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Georgina Born. Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde. Sandra Buckley. Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism. JaHyun Kim Haboush. (Introduction, translation and annotation). The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyông: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea. Maurice Hamington. Hail Mary: The Struggle for Ultimate Womanhood in Catholicism. Vilsoni Hereniko. Woven Gods: Female Clowns and Power in Rotuma. Pacific Islands Monograph Series, No. 12. Douglas W. Hollan and Jane C. Wellenkamp. The Thread of Life: Toraja Reflections on the Life Cycle. Jeremy MacClancy (ed.), Sport, Identity and Ethnicity. June Nash. I Spent My Life in the Mines: the Story of Juan Rojas, Bolivian Tin Miner. Rajni Palriwala and Carla Risseeuw , (eds), Shifting Circles Of Support: Contextualizing Kinship and Gender in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. N. Pearson and W. Sanders. Indigenous peoples and reshaping Australian institutions: two perspectives. Peter Rigby. African Images: Racism and the End of Anthropology.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Francoise Dussart . The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, Gender, and the Currency of Knowledge. Han‐Dieter Evers and Rudiger Korff . Southeast Asian Urbanism: The Meaning and Power of Social Space. Susan Greenwood . Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld: An Anthropology. IWGIA . The Indigenous World 1999–2000. Christian Emi (ed.) A. Margaret McArthur . The Curbing of Anarchy in Kunimaipa Society. Edited by Douglas Oliver John McCreery . Japanese Consumer Behaviour: From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers. Diane M. Nelson . A Finger In The Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala. Lidia D. Sciama and Joanne B . Eicher (eds). Beads and Bead Makers: Gender, Material Culture and Meaning. John W. Traphagan . Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Karen Ask and Marit Tjomsland, (eds) . Women and Islamization: Contemporary Dimensions of Discourse on Gender Relations. Bronwen Douglas . Across the Great Divide: Journeys in History and Anthropology. Britta Duelke . ‘…same but different…’ Vom Umgang mit Vergangenheit: Tradition und Geschichte im Alltag einer nordaustralischen Aborigines ‐ Kommune. Studien zur Kulturkunde Series 108. T. Scarlett Epstein, A. P. Suryanarayana and T. Thimmegowda . Village Voices: Forty Years of Rural Transformation in South India. Richard Eves . The Magical Body: Power, Fame and Meaning in a Melanesian Society. C. A. Gregory . Savage Money: The Anthropology and Politics of Commodity Exchange. Ghassan Hage . White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society. Jennifer Robertson . Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. Paul Sillitoe . An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia: Culture and Tradition. Helena Wulff . Ballet Across Borders: Career and Culture in the World of Dancers.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Julie Marcus, ed. First in Their Field. Women and Australian Anthropology. Diane Bell, Pat Caplan and Wazir Jahan Karim, eds. Gendered Fields: Women, Men and Ethnography. Jeffrey Minson. Questions of Conduct: Sexual Harassment, Citizenship, Government. Jacques Derrida. Given Time: 1. Counterfeit Money. Philip Manning. Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology. James Fentrees and Chris Wickham. Social Memory. Jeremy Rifkin. Beyond Beef. The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture. Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin. Origins Reconsidered. In Search of What Makes Us Human. Pierre Lemonnier. Elements for an Anthropology of Technology. Michael Walsh and Colin Yallop, eds. Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia. Uldis Ozolins. The Politics of Language in Australia. Gillian Bottomley. From Another Place. Migration and the Politics of Culture. Richard Maddox. El Castillo. The Politics of Tradition in an Andalusian Town. Grant Evans, ed. Asia's Cultural Mosaic. An Anthropological Introduction. Jean-Paul Dumont. Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island. Jonathan Spencer. A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble. Politics and Change in Rural Sri Lanka. Kalpana Ram. Mukkuvar Women. Gender, Hegemony and Capitalist Transformation in a South Indian Fishing Community. Albert B. Robillard, ed. Social Change in the Pacific Islands. Anne Salmond. Two Worlds. First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans 1642–1772. Geoffrey Irwin. The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific. Bernard Juillerat, ed. Shooting the Sun: Ritual and Meaning in West Sepik. Roger M. Keesing. Custom and Confrontation. The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy. James J. Carrier, ed. History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology. Edward Schieffelin and Robert Crittenden, eds. Like People You See in a Dream. First Contact in Six Papuan Societies. Klaus Neumann. Not the Way It Really Was: Constructing the Tolai Past. Ron Brunton. The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia. Maurice Godelier and Marilyn Strathern, eds. Big Men and Great Men. Personifications of Power in Melanesia.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: J.M. Arthur . Aboriginal English: A Cultural Study. Diane J. Austin-Broos. Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders. Mick Broderick (ed.) Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film. Linda Connor, Patsy Asch and Timothy Asch. Jero Tapakan: Balinese Healer. An Ethnographic Film Monograph. Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso (eds). Senses of Place. T. Fujitani. Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. David N. Gellner, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka and John Whelpton (eds). Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom: The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Nepal. Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson (eds). Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science. Helen Hardacre. Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan. Marilyn Ivy. Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan. Margaret Jolly. Women of the Place: Kaslom, Colonialism and Gender in Vanuatu. M.P. Levine, P.M. Nardi and J.H. Gagnon (eds). In Changing Times: Gay Men and Lesbians Encounter HIV/AIDS. Nancy C. Lutkehaus and Paul B. Roscoe (eds.) Gender Ritual: Female Initiation in Melanesia. Helen Morton. Becoming Tongan: An Ethnography of Childhood. Herbert Donald Graham Maschner. Darwinian Archaeologies Michael Southon. The Navel of the Perahu: Meaning and Values in the Maritime Trading Economy of a Butonese Village. J. M. Mageo and A. Howard (eds). Spirits in Culture, History and Mind. Virginia Watson. Anyan's Story. A New Guinea Woman in Two Worlds.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: William Y. Adams . The Philosophical Roots of Anthropology. G. Aijmer and J. Abbink (eds) Meanings of Violence: A Cross‐Cultural Perspective. Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman, Mamphela Ramphele and Pamela Reynolds (eds) Violence and Subjectivity. Michael Allen . Ritual, Power and Gender: Explorations in the Ethnography of Vanuatu, Nepal and Ireland. Charlotte E. Hardman . Other Worlds: Notions of Self and Emotion Among the Lohorung Rai. Sanjay Srivastava . Constructing Post‐Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School. Christina Toren . Mind, Materiality and History: Explorations in Fijian Ethnography. Andrew Turton (ed.) . Civility and Savagery: Social Identity in Tai States.     

Haka Fracas? The Dialectics of Identity in Discussions of a Contemporary Maori Dance1

This paper analyses discussions of the haka (popularly translated as ‘the war dance of the Maori’) in three performative sites in Aotearoa/New Zealand: a national Maori dance competition, touristic ‘cultural experience’ programs in Rotorua, and a secondary school in Wellington. The discussions demonstrate that this dance has come to represent a variety of ‘identifications’ for the speakers. However, while the haka elicits multiple, related and sometimes conflicting identificatory possibilities for Maori‐identified discussants (albeit within a limited range of positions), this is not the case for a group of non‐Maori men reminiscing about their boyhood performances at school sporting events. Through the comparison of discussions of these three performance sites, this paper argues that haka conversations reveal dynamic creativity in discourses of identifications (intra‐indigenous, collective indigenous, and nationalist) of some speakers but not of others.     

Woven Stories

Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema

Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen, eds. Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema. London: British Film Institute; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. 568 pp., biblio., illus., index of films. Rs. 995; $49.95.

Naming the Other

Martin Blythe. Naming the Other: Images of Maori in New Zealand Film and Television. Metuchen, NJ, and London: Scarecrow Press, 1994. 336 pp. Maori glossary, filmography, photo credits, notes, index. $39.50.     

The species of the genus Micrambe Thomson 1863, from South Africa (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae)

The 22 species of the genus Micrambe Thomson known from South Africa are analyzed and revised. Micrambe danielssoni sp. nov is described. Following a detailed study of the type material in different entomological collections, the status of two taxa is revised and two new synonymies are proposed: Micrambe kolbei Grouvelle 1908, syn. nov. for Micrambe minuta Grouvelle 1908, and Micrambe similis Bruce 1957, syn. nov. for Micrambe peringueyi Grouvelle 1908. A lectotypus is designated for one taxon: Micrambe capensis (Redtenbacher 1867). A key to all the species occurring in South Africa is presented.     

Maori hapuu and their History

Current research by historians and lawyers in Maori land and fisheries claims is broaching issues of Maori kinship calling for renewed social anthropological research. In this essay I review the history of social anthropological research in Maori kinship through 1975, a lapse in this research until the late 1980s, and a recent revival. A central problem of this research has been the conceptualisation of Maori hapuu (‘subtribes’) or cognatic descent groups. A critique of the recent analyses suggests that the early failure of social anthropologists to understand hapuu in historical context continues, although in different theoretical forms. The burgeoning research by historians and lawyers, while lacking fundamental anthropological insights, suggests that hapuu cannot be separated from their specific history.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Australian Dreaming. 40.000 years of Aboriginal History . Edited by Jennifer Isaacs Radio Power. A History of 3ZZ Access Radio . By Joan Dugdale Department of Anthropology, University of Western Australia Introduction to Australian Society: A Sociological Perspective . By Donald Edgar The New South Wales Wheat Frontier. 1851 to 1911 . By M. E. Robinson Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney. Heroin in Australia . By David Hirst Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland. The Quest for Gaia. A Book of Changes . By Kit Pedler Drinking Careers. Occupations, Drinking Habits, and Drinking Problems . By Martin A. Plant Northern Territory Department of Health, Darwin. Families in Former Times: Kinship, Household and Sexuality . By Jean-Louis Flandrin. Translated by Richard Southern Changing Images of the Family . Edited by Virginia Tufte and Barbara Myerhoff Department of Anthropology, Western Australian Museum. Give and Take. Exchange in Wola Society . By Paul Sillitoe Department of Prehistory and Anthropoloy, S.G.S. Caste: The Emergence of the South Asian Social System . By Morton Klass David Mearns Department of Anthropology, University of Adelaide. Anthropological Structures of Madness in Black Africa . By I. Sow. Translated by Joyce Diamenti Basic Problems of Ethnopsychiatry . By George Devereux Department of Anthropology, University of Otago. Who Should Know What? Social Science, Privacy and Ethics . By J. A. Barnes Department of Sociology, University of N.S.W. Arnold Van Gennep. The Creator of French Ethnography . By Nicole Belmont Department of Prehistory anrf Anthropology, Australian National University. Man, Mind, and Science. A History of Anthropology . By Murray J. Leaf Department of Sociology, University of N.S.W. The Conceptualisation and Explanation of Processes of Social Change . Edited by David Riches School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University. Day of Shining Red. An Essay on Understanding Ritual . By Gilbert Lewis Department of Prehistory and Anthropology, Australian National University. Living Archaeology . By R. A. Gould. New Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, University of New England Experimental Determinatiou of Stone Tool Uses: A Microwear Analysis . By Lawrence H. Keeley Division of Prehistory, La Trobe University. Archaeological Constructs. An Aspect of Theoretical Archaeology . By Jean-Claude Gardin Division of Prehistory, La Trobe University. The Performing Arts. Music and Dance . Edited by John Blacking and Joann W. Kealiinohomoku Department of Sociology, University of New England.     

DNA data and morphology reveal the existence of Kentrochrysalis streckeri Staudinger, 1880 (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) instead of K. consimilis in South Korea

In the present study, we determined that specimens of Kentrochrysalis consimilis collected from South Korea were K. streckeri, rather than K. consimilis, based on morphology, DNA barcodes and nuclear elongation factor 1 alpha (EF‐1α) sequences. The major morphological differences between K. streckeri and K. consimilis include the shape of forewing and hind‐wing pattern elements and male and female genitalia. The DNA barcode analysis of the South Korean specimens and the Russia‐originated K. streckeri showed a maximum sequence divergence of only 0.659% (4 bp), whereas that of the South Korean specimens and Japan‐originated K. consimilis showed a minimum sequence divergence of 2.965% (18 bp), indicating that the Korean specimens are, in fact, K. streckeri and not K. consimilis. Phylogenetic analyses both by Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood methods strongly clustered the South Korean specimens and Russian K. streckeri into one group, excluding K. consimilis. The EF‐1α‐based sequence and phylogenetic analyses of the two species also supported data from the DNA barcode, indicating the distribution of K. streckeri in South Korea, instead of K. consimilis.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Gage Averill . A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti. Peter Bellwood, James Fox and Daryl Tryon (eds) . The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. James Fox and Clifford Sather (eds) . Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography. Eyal Ben-Ari . Body Projects in Japanese Childcare. Francesca Bray . Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. Susan Brownell . Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic. A.T. Dalfovo . Lugbara Proverbs. Robbie E. Davis-Floyd and Carolyn F. Sargent (eds) . Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Anne E. Figert . Women and the Ownership of PMS: The Structuring of a Psychiatric Disorder. J. Goodman, P.E. Lovejoy and A. Sherratt (eds) . Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology. Abdellah Hammoudi . Master and Disciple: The Cultural Foundations of Moroccan Authoritarianism. Chris Healey and David Mearns (eds) . Remaking Maluku - Social Transformation in Eastern Indonesia. Gail Hershatter . Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. Sharon E. Hutchinson . Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War and the State. Anastasia N. Karakasidou . Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia 1870–1990. Stephen Muecke . No Road (bitumen all the way). Geoffrey A. Oddie . Popular Religion, Elites and Reform: Hook-Swinging and its Prohibition in Colonial India, 1800–1894. M. Picard and R. E. Wood (eds) . Tourism, Ethnicity, and the State in Asian and Pacific Societies. Veronica Strang . Uncommon Ground: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Values.     

Occurrence of exotic eels in natural waters of South Korea

We surveyed the proportion of anguillid eel species inhabiting South Korea natural waters. From September 2014 to August 2015, 429 eels were collected in various habitats for identification using morphological features and DNA-based molecular methods. We found 424 Japanese eels (Anguilla japonica, 98.8%), two European eels (A. anguilla, 0.5%), one American eel (A. rostrata, 0.23%), one tropical eel (A. marmorata, 0.23%), and one short-finned eel (A. bicolor pacifica, 0.23%). Three (A. anguilla, A. rostrata, and A. bicolor pacifica) are exotic species to the natural waters of South Korea; this study is the first record of their distribution in this region. Specifically, A. anguilla was found in the Lake Soyang and Cheongpyeong, while A. rostrata was found only in the Lake Cheongpyeong, and A. bicolor pacifica was found in the Geum River estuary.     

First description of milk teeth of fossil South American procyonid from the lower Chapadmalalan (Late Miocene–Early Pliocene) of “Farola Monte Hermoso,” Argentina: paleoecological considerations

The first record of milk teeth of South American fossil procyonids comes from the Late Miocene–Early Pliocene at “Farola Monte Hermoso,” Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Five extant genera of Procyonidae inhabit South America (Bassaricyon Allen, Nasuella Hollister, Potos Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Cuvier, Procyon Storr, and Nasua Storr). Of these only Procyon and Nasua are present in the fossil record (Late Pleistocene–Holocene), in several localities in Brazil, Uruguay, and Bolivia. In addition, six other fossil genera were named, but only two are considered valid: Cyonasua and Chapadmalania. Thus, Cyonasua encompasses ten formally named species and Chapadmalania two. The new specimen, MLP 09-X-5-1, is assigned to cf. Cyonasua. In addition, anatomical evidence implies a much more carnivorous diet in Late Miocene–Early Pleistocene procyonids than that of extant South American taxa. Finally, I examine and discuss the “competitive displacement” hypothesis regarding the extinction of native marsupial carnivores after the arrival of immigrant placental carnivores in South America.     

Neodiplostomum spratti n. sp. (Digenea: Diplostomidae) from Antechinus spp. (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in Australia,with notes on other diplostomids from Australian mammals

Neodiplostomum spratti n. sp. is described from Antechinus stuartii and A. swainsonii (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). The status of Neodiplostomum minor, N. flabelliformis, N. intermedius, N. sarcophilus, N. diaboli and Pharyngostomoides dasyuri is reviewed. New hosts records for N. intermedius are Rattus lutreolus, R. leucopus, R. rattus (all Rodentia: Muridae) and Dasyurus maculatus (Dasyuridae). The following undescribed species are recorded: Neodiplostomum spp. from Dasyurus maculatus from Victoria, Dasyurus viverrinus from Tasmania, Perameles nasuta (Marsupialia: Peramelidae) from New South Wales, Sminthopsis leucopus (Dasyuridae) from New South Wales, and a diplostomulum from the lung of Perameles nasuta from New South Wales. The validity of Fibricola is reconsidered and it is proposed that it be considered a synonym of Neodiplostomum. The new combinations Neodiplostomum minor (Dubois, 1936), N. sarcophilus (Sandars, 1957) and N. flabelliformis (Pearson & Dubois, 1985) are proposed: all three were previously attributed to Fibricola.