New Synonymies and Combinations for New World Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

The following new synonymies and new combinations for Pselaphinae of North and Central America are documented: Anarmodius aequinoctialis (Motschulsky) (Trichonyx), New Comb.; Anthylarthron cornutum (Brendel) (= Anthylarthron curtipenne Casey, New Syn.); Aporhexius robustus (Motschulsky) (Euplectus), New Comb.; Batrisodespunctlfrons Casey (= Batrisodes appalachianus Casey, New Syn.); Batrisodes ionae (LeConte) (= Batrisodes caseyt Blatchley, New Syn.); Batrisodes clypeonotus (Brendel) (= Batrisodes kahli Bowman, New Syn.); Batrisodes lineaticollis (Aube) (= Batrisus globosus LeConte, New Syn.); Brachygluta corniventris (Motschulsky) (Bryaxts), New Comb., (= Bryaxts illinoiensis Brendel, New Syn.); Cedius ziegleri LeConte (= Cedius robustus Casey, New Syn.); Conoplectus simplex (Motschulsky) (Rhexius), New Comb., jun. syn. of Conoplectus canaliculatus (LeConte), New Syn.; Ctenisodes Raffray (= Pilopius Casey, New Syn.); Cylindrarctus ludovicianus (Brendel) (= Cylindrarctus comes Casey, New Syn.; Dalmosanus Park (= Pygmactium Grigarick and Schuster, New Syn.); Decarthron consanguineum (Motschulsky) (Bryaxis), New Comb.; Decarthron formiceti (LeConte) (= Decarthron rayi Park, = Decarthron seriepunctatum Brendel, New Syns.); Decarthron velutinum (LeConte), New Status (= D. formiceti, Park, 1958); Decarthron marinum Brendel (= Decarthron diversum Park, New Syn.); Decarthron robustum (Motschulsky) (Metaxis), New Comb.; Euphalepsus Reitter (= Barada Raffray, = Tetrasemus Jeannel, New Syns.), in subtribe Baradina; Eupsentus dilatatus Motschulsky (= Eupsenius rufus LeConte, New Syn.); Eurhexius canaliculatus (Motschulsky) (Trichonyx), New Comb. (= Eurhexius zonalis Park, New Syn.); Harmophola adusta (Motschulsky) (Euplectus), New Comb.; Iteticus cylindricus (Motschulsky) (Batrisus), New Comb.; Nisaxis Casey (=Dranisaxa Park, New Syn.); Oropus strtatus (LeConte) (=Oropus keeni Casey and O. brevipennis Casey, New Syns.); Panaramecia tropicalis (Motschulsky) (Euplectus), New Comb. (= Panaramecia zvilliamsi Park, New Syn.); Phamisus Aube, (= Canthoderus Motschulsky, New Syn.); Pselaptus oedipus (Sharp) (Bryaxis, Cryptorhinula), New Comb.; Pselaphus bellax Casey (= Pselaphus ulkei Bowman, New Syn); Reichenbachia intacta (Sharp) (= Bryaxis sarcinaria Schaufuss, New Syn.); Reichenbachia pruinosa (Motschulsky) (Bryaxis), New Comb., (= Bryaxis macrura Motschulsky, = Reichenbachia bterigi Park, New Syns.); Reichenbachia rubricunda (Aube) (= Bryaxis gemmifer LeConte, New Syn.); Trimicerus Motschulsky, (= Batrybraxis Reitter, New Syn.); Trimicerus corn?gera (Motschulsky) (Bryaxis), New Comb. (= Batrybraxis panamensis Park, New Syn.); Trimicerus pacificus Motschulsky (= Batrybraxis bowmani Park, New Syn.); Trimiomelba dubia (LeConte) (= Trimium americanum Motschulsky, = Trimium convexulum LeConte, = Trimiomelba laevis Casey, New Syns.); Tyrus humeralis (Aube) (= Tyrus consimilis Casey, New Syn.); Tyrus semiruber Casey (= Tyrus humeralis of authors); Tyrus cortidnus Casey (= Tyrus carinifer Casey, New Syn.); Xybarida trimioides (Sharp) (Bryaxis, Cryptorhinula), New Comb. Lectotype designations: Batrisus ionae LeConte; Batrisus globosus LeConte; Bryaxis consangu?nea Motschulsky; Bryaxis corniventris Motschulsky; Bryaxis pruinosa Motschulsky; Metaxis robusta Motschulsky; Rhextus simplex Motschulsky; Trimium americanum LeConte; Tyrus consimilis Casey. New species and genera: Cylindrarctus semin?le Chandler, New Species (= Cylindrarctus comes, Chandler, 1988); Motschtyrus pilosus (Motschulsky) (Tychus), Panama, New Genus, New Comb

Taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeography of the genus Asydates Casey (Insecta: Coleoptera: Melyridae)

The genus Asydates Casey (Coleoptera: Melyridae) is revised, containing three species from Arizona and California: A. explanatus Casey; A. inyoensis (Blaisdell), new combination; and A. rufiuentris Casey. The monotypic genus Pseudasydates Blaisdell is placed in synonymy with Asydates Casey, syn. nov., and Asydates puncticeps Blaisdell is placed in synonymy with Asydates explanatus Casey, syn. nov. A key separating adults of Asydates species is provided, and the results of a computerized cladistic analysis of Asydates species are presented. GIS mapping of Asydates species distributions indicates that these species are nearly allopatric, with A. explanatus found in the lower Colorado River basin and adjacent deserts, A. inyoensis restricted to the Inyo and White Mountains, and A. rufiuentris found in the coastal plain and coastal mountains near Santa Barbara. Geographic hypotheses of character evolution within Asydates are developed by combining the results of cladistic analysis and GIS mapping

A review of Lathropus Erichson (Coleoptera: Laemophloeidae) in Florida and the West Indies, excluding the Lesser Antilles

The species of the genus Lathropus Erichson are reviewed for Florida and the West Indies, excluding the Lesser Antilles. Seven species are recorded from this region, three of which are described as new: Lathropus chickcharnie Thomas, new species, Lathropus jamaicensis Thomas, new species, and Lathropus rhabdophloeoides Thomas, new species. A lectotype is designated for Lathropus vernalis Casey, and Lathropus striatus Casey is synonymized under Lathropus vernalis Casey, new synonymy. Illustrations and a key to the species of this geographgic region are provided

A new key to the species of the genus Cradytes Casey (Insecta: Coleoptera: Melyridae)

A new key is presented to separate adults of the four currently-recognized species of the genus Cradytes Casey (Insecta: Coleoptera: Melyridae): C. longicollis Casey, C. serricollis (LeConte), C. serrulatus . (LeConte), and C. ursinus Blaisdell. The inaccurate statements in an earlier key to species of Cradytes are discussed

Fearless Friday: Casey O\u27Higgins

This week is Spirit week. Because of this, today’s Fearless Friday honors a student who has worked tirelessly to promote education around LGBTQ issues. Casey O’Higgins is a senior from Detriot, Michigan, who is majoring in Women & Gender Studies and minoring in English. He is the President of Outerspace, an LGBTQ organization on campus that provides a safe, social space for students in the LGBTQ community and allies to socialize. Casey also works at the Office of LGBTQA Advocacy and Education as one of their program coordinators. In this role, he is responsible for organizing campus events that are geared towards raising awareness about the problems faced by the LGBTQ community. Spirit Week and Bisexual Awareness Day are among the events that Casey has helped to plan. [excerpt

Prospective Overruling and the Revival of ‘Unconstitutional\u27 Statutes

The Supreme Court\u27s decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey reshaped the law of abortion in this country. The Court overturned two of its previous decisions invalidating state restrictions on abortions, Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, and it abandoned the trimester analytic framework established in Roe v. Wade. At the time Casey was handed down, twenty states had restrictive abortion statutes on the books that were in conflict with Akron or Thornburgh and which were unenforced. In six of these states, courts had held the statutes unconstitutional. Almost as soon as the Casey ruling was announced, the campaign to secure enforcement of these restrictions began. Are these statutes good law, despite the fact that they were once in conflict with governing Supreme Court precedent (and in some cases had been judicially determined to violate women\u27s constitutional rights)? Alternatively, will they have to be re-enacted by the legislature to be enforceable? These questions highlight the revival issue. The revival issue arises when a court overrules a prior decision in which it had held a statute unconstitutional. (We will throughout this article refer to the first decision as the invalidating decision, and to the second decision as the overruling decision. ) Should the enforceability of a statute passed prior to the overruling decision be determined by reference to the invalidating decision--in which case the statute would have to be repassed to be in effect--or by reference to the overruling decision--in which case the statute would not have to be repassed? In other words, does the overruling decision automatically revive a previously unenforceable statute? The way in which the revival issue is resolved will thus determine whether, in light of Casey, previously unenforced statutes became enforceable without the need for any post-Casey legislative action. In addition to affecting what kind of abortion regulations are in effect in twenty states in the immediate wake of Casey, this determination has profound consequences for the kind of abortion regulations that will be in effect in these states in the future. Such long-term consequences reflect the fact that our governmental system is not one of pure majoritarianism and that the burden of inertia in our legislative process is heavy: as we will discuss, statutes on the books can stay on the books even if a current majority no longer desires them; in contrast, proposed statutes need supermajoritarian support to secure passage. Therefore, the starting point for future legislative action--such as whether pre-Casey abortion regulations are enforceable--influences the legislative action that in fact develops

Kids Count Alaska 2013-2014

This research was funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. We thank the foundation for its support, but the findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and not necessarily of the foundation. KIDS COUNT is a nationwide program of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The foundation produces a national data book each year, detailing the condition of America’s children. It also sponsors KIDS COUNT programs in all 50 states. Feel free to copy, distribute, or otherwise use information from the Kids Count Alaska Data Book, citing the source as: Kids Count Alaska 2013-2014 Data Book, prepared by the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage, with funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.Kids Count Alaska is part of a nationwide program, sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, to collect and publicize information about children’s health, safety, education, and economic status. We gather information from many sources and present it in one place, to give Alaskans and others a broad picture of how well the state’s children are doing—and provide parents, policymakers, and others with information they need to improve life for children and families. Our goals are: • Distributing information about the status of Alaska’s children • Creating an informed public, motivated to help children • Comparing the status of children in Alaska with that of children nationwide, but also presenting additional indicators relevant for AlaskaAnnie E. Casey FoundationIntroduction / Infancy / Births and Care Before Birth / Babies With Low Birthweight / Infant Mortality / Economic Well-Being / Children Living in Poverty / Children With No Parent Working Full-Time, Year-Round / Children in Single-Parent Families / Births to Teens / Health Care / Education / Dropout and Graduation Rates / Teens Not in School and Not Working / School Achievement / Children in Danger / Child Death Rate / Teen Death Rate / Child Abuse and Neglect / Juvenile Justic

Lectotype designations in the Buprestidae collection of the National Museum of Natural History (Coleoptera)

Lectotypes are designated for the following species: A. aureocoerulans Obenberger, A. auroguttatus Schaeffer, A. cannulus Obenberger, A. carinellifer Obenberger, A. dolli Schaeffer, A. exclusus Obenberger, A. ferrisi Dury, A. huachucae Schaeffer, A. optatus Obenberger, A. pictithorax Obenberger, A. simillipictus Obenberger, A. subtropicus Schaeffer, Aphanisticus peninsulae Obenberger, Brachys fascifera Schwam, Buprestis adducta Casey, B. caliginosa Casey, B. disruptans Casey, B. fastidiosa Casey, B. flavopicta Casey, B. fulgens Casey, B. fusca Casey, B. graminea Casey, B. gravidula Casey, B. leporina Casey, B. maculipennis deficiens Casey, Chalcophora angulicollis montana Casey, C. laurentica Casey, Cinyra prosternalis Schaeffer, Conognatha fisheri Hoscheck, C. neutra Hoscheck, Cypriacis obscura Casey, C. venusta Casey, Endelus bakerianus Obenberger, E. belial Obenberger, Gyascutus amplus Casey, G. compactus Casey, G. fidelisCasey, G. pistorius Casey, Hippomelas grossus Casey, H. planicauda Casey, Meliboeus carbonicolor Obenberger, Meliboeus pravus Obenberger, Pachyschelus caeruleus Schwam, P. orientalis Obenberger, Poecilonota cupripes Casey, P. parviceps Casey, Polycesta arizonica Schaeffer, Rhaeboscelis texana Schaeffer, Sambus delicatulus Obenberger, Stereosa cribripennis Casey, Stictocera laticornis Casey, S. pollens Casey, Texania bisinuata Casey, Trachys fisheri Obenberger, T. isolata Obenberger, T. scriptella Obenberger, T. subaenella Obenberger, T. (Habroloma) bakeriana Obenberger, T. (H.) singaporensis Obenberger, Tyndaris chamaeleonis Skinner and T. olneyae Skinner

Value and selfhood: pragmatism, Confucianism, and phenomenology

This article articulates a dialogue between Edward Casey, Cheng Chung‐ying, and me that began at the Eastern Division annual meeting in Philadelphia of the American Philosophical Association, in a session sponsored by the International Society for Chinese Philosophy. There, we read brief versions of the papers presented in this issue and commented on one another. Casey represented Continental phenomenology, Cheng the Chinese tradition as he has developed it into onto‐generative hermeneutics, and I the melding of American pragmatic and Confucian traditions that I have been developing

Correction to the known distribution of Prionus (Homaesthesis) simplex (Casey) (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)

Prionus (Homaesthesis) simplex (Casey) was described (Casey, 1912:253) from one male specimen from Kansas with no further data. The specimen is in the United States National Museum and is illustrated by Chemsak (1996). Alexander (1958) reported P. simplex from two locations in Craig County, Oklahoma. Alexander's paper appears to be the basis for two localities shown in northeastern Oklahoma on the distribution maps given by Linsley (1962) and Chemsak (1996). The one locality shown in central Kansas on the map by Chemsak (1996) represents just a "state record" and not a specific collecting record (J. Beier!, Editor of Wolfs garden Books, pers. comm.