170 Mr. G. C. Champion on the 



Antarctic/, recorded by Curtis from Port Famine under the 

 name A. latigastrica, D -j., is a ? of A. blanda. Guerin's 

 figure of the latter was taken from a specimen from Con- 

 cepcion, Chile. Bates recorded in 1871 the capture of many 

 specimens of A. blanda and A. malachitica by Capt. Macey 

 in the Falkland's. A.racovitzai, Rousseau, based on a single 

 specimen ( ? , to judge from his figure) from Lnpataia, 

 Beagle Canal, must come very near A. blanda. 



5. Antarctia nitida, Guerin. 



Antarctia nitida, Guerio, Voyage ' Coquille,' ii. 2, p. 59, t. i. fig. 10 



(1830) \ 

 Var. Antarctia chah/bea, Blanch. Voyage Pole Sud, iv. p. 38, Atlas, 



t, iii. fig. 3 (1853) \ 

 Antarctia glauca, Blanch, loc. cit. p. 39, 't. iii. fig. 4 3 . 

 ? Antarctia anodon, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1883, p. 485 4 . 

 Antarctia blanda, Enderl. Kungl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. xlviii. no. 3, 



p. 9, t. i. fig. 9 (?<S nee $>) (1912) (part.) (nee Dejean) 5 . 

 Var. Antarctia rimosa, Enderl. loc. cit. 6 



Hob. FALKLANDS [lies Malouines 1 ], Lafonia near Port 

 Darwin {'Challenger' E.vped.: <J ), Port Stanley 56 (Col. 

 A. M. Reid, C. J. C. Pool, M. Cameron : J ? ) ; OBSERVA- 

 TION Isl. 6 ; Tierra DEL Fuego ( C. Darwin : <$ ), Nose Peak 

 and Useless Bay (E. Crawshay : c? ? ) ; Patagonia, Port 

 Desire and Santa Cruz (C Darwin : $ ) ; S. Chile, Port 

 Famine 23 , Punta Arenas 4 [Sandy Bay] (J. J. Walker, Mas. 

 Brit.\ (J ? ), Possession Bay (Mus. Brit.-. <J), Valle del 

 Lago Blanco (Koslowsky : ? ). 



Guerin's 'description of A. nitida must have been taken 

 from the common Falkland Antarctia figured by Enderlein 

 under the name A. blanda, a very different insect, though 

 they are treated as forms of one by the last-named author. 

 The rough figure given by Guerin, however, does not show 

 the strongly rounded sides of the prothorax, characteristic 

 of the present species, while that of Blanchard (of A. glauca) 

 agrees well in this respect. The series of about 100 examples 

 before me, including many from Tierra del Fuego, Chile, and 

 Patagonia, and a still larger number from the Falklands, 

 shows great variation in colour (much as in a series of the 

 variable Harpalus ceneus, F., of the Palsearctic region) — 

 aeneous, cupreo-seneous (especially in ? ), green, bluish-green, 

 or, rarely, blue or violaceous. A. chalybea, Blanch., from 

 Port Famine, A. anodon, Fairm., from Punta Arenas, and 

 A. rimosa, Enderl., from Port Stanley, are almost certainly 

 synonymous with it. A. rimosa is based upon a single 



