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Volume 97 (1990)Mesozoic Vespidae. A social wasp's nest from the Cretaceous period, Utah, USA, and its biographical significance. Effect of mite infestation on the anti-predator defenses of an insect. Predation on cercopids and material use of the spittle in aphid-tent construction by prairie ants. Slave marking by the slave-making ant, Harpagoxenus americanus (Emery) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Hour versus temperature in ant species diversity in field rhythm. The effectiveness of the nest of a desert widow spider, Latrodectus revivensis, in predatory deterrence. A comparison of ground and canopy leaf litter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in a neotropical montane forest. Food level and life history characteristics in a pholcid spider, Holocnemus pluchei. The effect of clutch size and ant attendance on egg guarding by Entylia bactriana (Homoptera: Membracidae). Systematics of moths in the genus Catocala (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). II. Type material at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, with lectotype designations. A substitute name for the extinct genus, Eoricania Haupt (Hemiptera: Homoptera; Ricaniidae). Notes on the remarkable karyology of the primitive ant Nothomyrmecia macrops, and of the related genus Myrmecia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zoogeography of the Amiseginae and a remarkable new chrysidid wasp from Chile (Hymenoptera. Laboratory experiments on environmental sources of nestmate and non-nestmate discrimination in three species of Formica ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Measuring the mass of small arthropod muscles. Nest recognition in the ant Leptothorax ambiguus Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). An unusually broad behavioral repertory for a major worker in a dimorphic ant species: Pheidole morrisi (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). New species of Solierella from western North America (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Functional monogyny of Leptothorax acervorum in northern Japan. Single sex alate production by colonies of Pheidole desertorum and Pheidole xerophila tucsonica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Size and kinship affect success of co-founding Lasius pallitarsis queens. New species and a key to North American Solierella in the inermis group (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Larrinae: Miscophini). The neotropical orbweavers of the genus Larinia (Araneae: Araneidae). A large male competitive advantage in a lekking fly, Hermetia comstocki Williston (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Notes on the ant genera Romblonella and Willowsiella, with comments on their affinities, and the first descriptions of Australian species (Hyme noptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Index to Volume 97. Front and back matter for issue 1+2 |