No. 2353. GENOTYPES OF THE ELATERIDAE—HY8L0P. 631 



Belania Lapobte de Castelnau. 



1840, Hist. Nat. Anim. Artie, Col., vol. 1, p. 236. 



Type. — Pyrophorus buphthalmus (King) Eschscholtz, Thon. Arch., vol. 2, 



pt. 1, p. 32, 1829. (Monobasic.) 

 Note.— Candeze (1863) refers the type to Pyrophorus Illiger. 

 Beliophonis Eschscholtz. 



1829, Thon. Arch., vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 34. Two species. 

 Type. — Beliophorus cebrionoides Eschscholtz, (Original designation.) 

 Betarmon Kiesenwetteb. 



1863, Naturg. Ins. Deutschl., vol. 4, p. 265. Two species. 

 Type. — Elater hisMmacuUitus Schonhebb, Syn. Ins., vol. 3, p. 313, 1817. 

 (Present designation.) 



Note. — Gemminger and Harold (1869) reduced the type to synonomy 

 under Betarmon bisbimaculatus Fabbicius. O. Schwarz (1906) reduces E, 

 bisbitnacttlatus Faukicius to synonymy under Betarmon ferricgineus Scopoli. 

 Betarmonides Schwabz. 



1906, Gen. Ins., fasc. 46, p. 147. Six species. 



Type. — Betarmon frontalis Shabp, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 19, p. 13, 

 1877. (Present designation.) 

 Biadelater i Handlibsch. 



1906, Die Fossilen Insect., vol. 1, p. 559, pi. 45, fig. 60. 

 Type. — Elater werneri Giebel, Ins. Vorw., p. 92, 1856. (Monobasic.) 

 [Bionychus MoTSCHULSKY=nomen nudum.] 



1859, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc, vol. 32, pt. 2, p. 360 (in table without 

 species ) . 

 Bladus LeConte. 



1861, Class. N. A. Coleo, p. 171. In table without species. 

 1866, List Col. N. Amer., pt. 1, p. 48. 



Type. — Elater guadricolUs Say, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 6, p. 186, 

 1839. (Monobasic.) 

 Blauta LeConte. 



1853, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 10, p. 472. 

 Type. — Blauta cauta LeConte. (Monobasic.) 



Note. — Candtee (1859) reduces the species to synonymy under Blauta cri- 

 braria Gebmab. 

 [Blax CandI;ze, not Thomson, 1860, Longicornia]=]SIetablax CandI:ze. 

 1863, Monogr. Elat., vol. 4, p. 200, two species. 



Type. — Elater acutipennis White, Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror, vol. 11, p. 

 7, 1846. (Present designation.) 



Note. — O. Schwarz reduces the genus to synonymy under MetaMax 

 Candicze and misspells the type acuminatus. 

 Brachycrepis LeConte. 



1853, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 10, p. 460. 



Type.— Brachycrepis bicarinatus LeConte. (Monobasic.) 



Note. — Cand&ze (1859) reduces the genus to synonymy under Anchastus 

 LeConte. 

 Brachylacon Motschulsky. 



1858, Etudes Ents., 7th year, p. 60. 



Type. — Brachylacon microcephalus Motschulsky. (Monobasic.) 



Note. — Gemminger and Harold (1869) reduce the genus to synonymy 

 under Lacon Castelnau. 

 Brounaeolus Hyslop, new name=(Exaeolus Beoun, not Gozis, 1886). 

 New name for Exaeolus Broun preoccupied. 

 Type. — Exaeolus rufescens Broun. 



