The coastal rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of Atlantic Canada: a survey and new records Author Majka, Christopher Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada Author Klimaszewski, Jan St. Francis Xavier University, Department of Biology, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada Author Lauff, Randolph St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish ,, Canada text ZooKeys 2008 2008-09-04 2 2 115 150 journal article 10.3897/zookeys.2.2 6a4658b7-ce15-45fb-8985-b925e1490704 1313–2970 576408 Philonthus varians (Paykull, 1789) PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND : Prince Co.: Belmont Park, 9.VII.1988 , Y. Bousquet, (1, CNC). Davies (1979) found this introduced Palearctic species in seaweed beach wrack in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. According to Smetana (1995: 240) “ Philonthus varians occurs in all kinds of decaying organic matter … specimens were also collected under rotting seaweeds on sea beaches …”. It is abundant in many portions of the Atlantic Provinces ( Smetana 1995 ; unpublished data). Its distribution in North America is shown in Smetana (1995) . It was first recorded in the region in New Brunswick in 1900-1907 ( Majka and Klimaszewski 2008 ). Hammond (2000) includes it as a generalist species regularly reported from saline and intertidal situations in Great Britain .