M. H. Hatch published 10 papers on New World Nicrophorus between 1925 and 1948. Within these he published many new names, mostly as aberrations, which, being infrasubspecific, have no status under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (4th ed. Art. 45.5). Almost all of Hatch's types are now in the Smithsonian in Washington D. C. (NMNH) although at least 12 of these are missing. The NMNH has no paratypes of these names, only single specimens, usually the holotype. Because these aberrations represent variation within species I thought it might be valuable, or at least interesting, to present here dorsal habitus shots of all of Hatch's aberration types in the NMNH.

Derek Sikes, 18 May 2000.

antennatus-transbaikali	carolinus-floridae	carolinus-krautwurmi-lat	carolinus-krautwurmi	carolinus-lunulatus
carolinus-nebraskae	defodiens-gaigei	defodiens-humeralis	defodiens-nicolayi	defodiens-nunenmacheri
defodiens-oregonensis	defodiens-pacificae	defodiens-ruber	guttula-californiae	guttula-hypomerus
guttula-intermedius	guttula-kuscheli	guttula-lajollae	guttula-novamexicae	guttula-phoenix
guttula-punctatus	guttula-rubrissimus	guttula-sanfranciscae	guttula-shastae	guttula-wallisi
guttula-woodgatei	investigator-charlottei	investigator-clarencei	investigator-grahami	investigator-japani
investigator-jemezi	investigator-martini	investigator-massetti	investigator-sitkhanensis	investigator-sitkhanensis2
marginatus-engelhardti	marginatus-leachi	marginatus-sanjuanae	pustulatus-coloradensis	pustulatus-noveboracensis
tomentosus-brevis	tomentosus-communis	tomentosus-elongatus	tomentosus-splendens-latbig	tomentosus-splendens
tomentosus-splendenslatbig2	vespillo-germani	vestigator-abbrevius