On the Coleoptera of the Falkland Islands. 1G7 



basitarsi rather broad, with pale ochreous hair on inner 

 side. Abdomen extremely polished, impunctate, the second 

 and third segments depressed in middle nearly to base, the 

 basal elevated parts weakly punctured ; segments 1 to 4 

 without hair-bands, but 3 and 4 with pale hair at sides ; 

 fifth segment and apex with abundant pale, slightly creamy 

 hair. 



Nampa, Idaho, at flowers of willow, April 26, 1916 

 (G oldie McGlothlen) . 



Related to A. cyanophila, Ckll., but easily separated by the 

 very feeble punctures at base of second and third abdominal 

 segments. It seems to be close to A. trachandrenoides, Vier., 

 which has never been fully described ; but that has the third 

 antennal joint longer, and on that account is excluded by 

 Viereck from the subgenus Trachandrena, to which A. poli- 

 tissima certainly belongs. 



XVIII. — The Coleoptera of the Falkland Islands. 

 By G. C. Champion, F.Z.S. 



Dr. Gunther Enderlein's account of the insects of Tierra 

 del Fuego, the Falklands, and South Georgia obtained by 

 the (Swedish South Polar Expedition, published in the 

 ' Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar/ Band 

 xlviii. no. 3, pp. 1-170, with four plates and numerous text- 

 figures, brings our knowledge of the fauna of these regions 

 up to 1912. His paper does not, of course, include some of 

 the Coleoptera captured by Charles Darwin in Tierra del 

 Fuego and the Falklands during the voyage of the ' Beagle/ 

 which have remained for upwards of thirty years unidentified 

 and buried, as it were, amongst the " Accessions " in the 

 British Museum. The Falkland beetles named by the three 

 members of the Waterhouse family (G. R., C. O., and F.), to 

 whom the Museum is indebted for most of them, are enume- 

 rated in Enderlein's list. The remainder, supplemented by 

 various other collections from the same islands received during 

 recent years, including a few species obtained by Fleet- 

 Surgeon M. Cameron in December, 1914, form the material 

 for the present paper, which adds 11 Coleoptera to the 

 Falkland list. The 34 (not 35, as stated) enumerated by 

 Enderlein include 16 apterous Curculionida?, probably all 



