The entomological exhibition of a Science museum and its contributions to non-formal Education

The Insecta Class is the most diverse group of animals on the planet. A big part of this composition is available in the collections of Natural History Museums, being essential for researches and diffusion actions involving a specialized and lay public. This paper aimed to verify the importance of an entomological exhibition of a Science museum for the acquisition of new knowledge and conception change regarding insects. To this end, 128 fourth-graders from elementary school were asked to draw an insect and write a brief description of it in relation to their knowledge about insects. Then, they visited an entomological exhibition, and a week later, using the "stimulated recollection method", they made a new drawing and description. The extracted data were organized in categories and statistically analyzed. Significant changes were observe regarding the children’s knowledge and concepts on insects in most of the analyzed aspects, such as the decrease of drawings and descriptions of animals belonging to other taxonomic groups and an increase on correct descriptions of concepts.

O Brasil e a medicina tropical / Brazil and tropical medicine

Säo feitas consideraçöes sobre o papel das endemias tropicais no desenvolvimento da sociedade brasileira. Aborda-se a atualidade das pesquisas que tratam da temática das doenças infecciosas. Comparando o significado para o primeiro mundo, conclui-se pela necessidade de estimular as pesquisas nessa área e de prestigiar os periódicos nacionais destinados a divulgá-las.

Revisión del género hormetica burmeister, 1838 (Blattoidea, Dictioptera) con descripción de dos especies nuevas de Venezuela / Review of hormetica burmeister, 1838 (Blattoidea, Dictioptera) origen with description of two species new in Venezuela

Se hace una revisión general de las cucarachas del géneroHormetica Burmeister 1838, y se describen dos especies nuevas: Hormetica cerdai y Hormetica osunai; ascendiendo a siete el número de especies de este género quese conocen en Venezuela

Necesidades para la educacion y el adiestramiento de entomologos medicos en las Americas / Entomologist educational and training needs in the Americas

La presente publicacion contiene informacion relacionada con el proyecto de la problematica de las enfermedades transmitidas por vectores en las Americas. Se hace un analisis sobre los entomologos y su funcion, los programas de educacion superior en America Latina, las tendencias existentes, y los resumenes sobre estudios de caso por paises y el plan de accion a seguir .