Monograph of the West Indian beetles of the family Staphylinidae

About this book

With the award of the Walther Rathbone Bacon Scholarship to the author in 1935 for the study of the fauna of regions outside the United States, a program was developed for the collection of Staphylinidae on each of the islands from Cuba to Trinidad; examination of all local collections; the study of types in the British Museum and the collection of Dr. Malcolm Cameron; the mounting, labeling, and sorting of the collections assembled; the identification of the species; and the preparation of a report, to included a systematic revision of the family as it occurs in the West Indies.