The epileptology of Theodore Herpin (1799-1865)

The Frenchman, Theodore Herpin (1799-1865), in Des Acces Incomplets d'Epilepsie, published posthumously in 1867, provided a very detailed account of a wide range of the possible manifestations of nonconvulsive epileptic seizures. However, he did not note the presence of absence seizures in any of his 300 patients who had experienced, at least in some of their attacks, what he considered were incomplete manifestations of epilepsy, the word epilepsy being taken to refer to full generalized tonic-clonic seizures. In the one patient, Herpin recognized that all epileptic seizures, whether complete or incomplete, began in the same way, and deduced that they must originate in the same place in that patient's brain. He did not develop the latter idea further. His observations, and his interpretation of them, seem to have preceded John Hughlings Jackson's independent development of similar concepts, but Jackson's more extensive intellectual exploration of the implications of his observations made him a more important figure than Herpin in the history of epileptology.

Portugueses na Wehrmacht. Os Voluntários da Divisão Azul (1941-1944)

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em História Contemporânea

Novos registros de Phoetalia pallida (Brunner, 1865) para o Brasil e considerações sobre a variação cromática da espécie (Blattaria, Blaberidae, Blaberinae)

Apresenta-se um novo registro de Phoetalia pallida (Brunner, 1865) para o Brasil, nas regiões norte, nordeste e centro-oeste, é descrita, pela primeira vez, a genitália da espécie e é analisada a variação cromática de pronoto e cabeça, entre as localidades assinaladas.

Contribuição para. o conhecimento da "saúva parda" Atta capiguara Gonçalves, 1944

This paper deals with field investigations on the biology of "saúva parda" (brown parasol ant, Atta capiguara Gonçalves, 1944), performed at Piracicaba and several other counties (State of São Paulo, Brazil). This ant is very noxious to several grasses and seems to make its colony only in very poor soils. Formerly the insect was known only in three counties; the writers found it in other fourteen ones.

Annotated checklist of bird and mammal species of Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu National Park, Peru / John W. Terborgh, John W. Fitzpatrick, Louise Emmons.

n.s. no.21(1984)

Contribuição ao conhecimento do gênero Zelurus Hahn (Spiniger auct. ) (Reduviidae, Hemiptera)

In the present paper the authors describe the male and female genitalia of various species of Zelurus (=Spiniger). There were not always obtained reliable specific characters, specially in nearly related species. Futhermore there were studied 59 species and subspecies, from Dutch Guiana, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Argentine. New locality records and synonymic notes are given and some allotypes are designated. Eight species and two subspecies, from Brazil and Argentine, proved to new to science.

Microtriatoma pratai sherlock & Guitton, 1982 é sinônimo do Hemíptero predador Aradomorpha Championi Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1944 (Reduviidae, Reduviidae): notas

Microtriatoma pratai Sherlock & Guitton, 1982 não pertence a este gênero de Triatominae. Não é inseto hematófago. Pertence ao gênero Aradomorpha Champion, 1899 e à espécie A. championi descrita por Lent & Wygodzinsky em 1944, inseto predador da subfamília Reduviidae.

Taxonomic review of Lutzomyia walkeri (Newstead, 1914) [= Lutzomyia marajoensis (Damasceno & Causey, 1944)] and the resurrection of Lutzomyia dubitans (Sherlock, 1962) (Diptera: Psychodidae)

Examination of the holotype of Lutzomyia marajoensis (Damasceno & Causey, 1944) shows this species to be identical to Lutzomyia walkeri (Newstead, 1914). The name Lutxomyia dubitans (Sherlock, 1962) is resurrected for another sand fly which has been incorrectly named L. marajoensis since 1961. Newly discovered structural differences between males and females of L walkeri from L. dubitans are presented.