172 Mr. G. C. Champion on the 



I have seen three male^ and three females of this species. 

 It is probably a form of the variable L.( Dyliscus) varius, F., 

 the fragmentary Patagoriian type (?) of which is still pre- 

 served in the Banksian Colleetio > at the British Museum. 

 Darwin captured a pail of the latter at Santa Cruz, Pata- 

 gonia. 



Staphylinidse. 



11. Arpediomhnus falklandicus, Cameron. 



Arpediopsis falklandica, Cameron, Ent. Monthly Mag. liii. p. 124 



(June 1917). 

 Arpediomimus falklandicus, Cameron, loc. cit. p. 277 (Dec. 1917). 



Hah. FALKLANDS, Port Stanley (71/. Cameron). 



Found in decaying kelp (Macrocystts pyriferd) in Dec. 

 1914. This genus is placed by its describer in a new group, 

 " Arpediomimi." The generic name first used was found to 

 be preoccupied in Staphylinidfe. 



12. Quedius mexomelhiuS) Marsham. 



Ilab. FALKLANDS (R. Valient in). 



A cosmopolitan insect. One specimen only taken. It has 

 been recorded from Australia, New Zealand, Pern, &c. 



13. Antarctophytosus darwini, F. Waterh. 



Phytosus darwini, F. Waterh. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiv. p. 531 



(1878). 

 Paraphi/tosus atriceps, Cameron, Ent. Monthly Mag. liii. p. 125 (June 



1917) (nee Waterh.). 

 Antarctophytosus darwini, Cameron, loc. cit. p. 233 (Oct. 1917). 



Hab. FALKLANDS (C. Darwin) ; Crozet Is. 



Found by Mr. Cameron on sandy beaches in the Falklands 

 in dry root-masses of "kelp" in Dec. 1914. Included in 

 Enderlein's list under the name Phytosus darwini. 



Type i'n B.M. 



* 



Silphidae. 



14. Catops falHandicus, F. Waterh. 



Hab. FalklANDS(C Darwin), Port Stanley (J/. Cameron) ; 

 TlERRA DEL FlJEGO, Kio M.°ClelIand, San Sebastian (R. 

 ( rawshay), Gable Isi. 



