RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1855.02. Waterhouse / some few American forms. CUL-DAR205.3.172. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.3 contains notes on distribution of animals.
The brown crayon number '19' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Island endemism: animals.
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Waterhouse Feb 55. Some few American forms
Looked over T. del Fuego insects, which I collected with such care, & there are no Europæan forms except such as are found in intermediate regions.
In S. Australia, (Adelaide) I saw Steropus & Harpelus, which Waterhouse thinks not found in intermediate regions. Staphylinidæ here very rare only 3 species. Tierra del Fuego, As distinct an Oceanic Isld. A. White has written on New Zealand insects
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Mutilla is a genus of Foss. Hymenopt. found over world, female Apterous, but as there are parasites on Bees, probably the species thus transported.
Analogy to slight characters common to fossil of several Formations
The Rats of S. America case of small character common to a great division of world. In some great genera of Curculionidæ most of the S. American species have a species in common.
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