valuable information on the Adelidae, and Sir Anthony
Galsworthy for kind correction of the language of the
manuscript. We sincerely thank Prof. Osamu Tadauchi
for his guidance and dedicate this paper to him in celebration
of his retirement from Kyushu University. This
research was supported by a Grant-in-Aid from the Japan
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology (no.07041141).