642 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 58. 



Drasterius Eschscholtz. 



1829, Thon. Arch., vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 33. Two species. 



Type. — Elatcr himaculatus Fabricius, Syst. Eleuth., vol. 2, p. 245, 1801. 



(Designation of Westvvood, Int. Mod. Class. Ins., vol. 2, Gen. Syn., p. 25, 



1840.) 



Note. — Gemminger and Harold (1869) give Rossi (Fauna. Etrusc, vol. 1, 

 p. 182, 1790) as the original author of the type. This is correct, as Fabricus 

 gives Rossi as author of type. 

 Drepanius PEETY=(Drepranius O. Schwarz, typographical error), 



1830, Delect. Anim. Art., p. 24. 



Type. — Drepanius clavipes Perty. (Monobasic.) 



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

 under Physodactyhis Fischer in the Cebrionidae. O. Schwarz (1906) re- 

 duces the genus to synonymy under Physodactylus Fischer placing this 

 genus in the Elateridae but not including the type. He misspells the 

 generic name Drepraniiis. 

 [Drepranius (Perty) O. Schwarz, typographical error] — Drepanius Perty. 

 1906, Gen. Ins., fasc. 46, p. 311. 

 Type. — Drepanius clavipes Perty. 

 Dulius Fleutiaux. 



1906, Bull Soc. Ent. Paris, p. 199. 

 Type. — DuHus aberrans Fleutiaux. (Monobasic.) 

 Dysarestus * Handlirsch. 



1906, Die Fossilen Insect, vol. 1, p. 451, pi. 41, fig. 57. 



Type. — Elaterites vetustus Heeb, Urwelt. d. Schw., vol. 88. p. 95, 1865. 

 (Monobasic.) 



Note. — Handlirsch says: " Kann wohl zu den Elateriden gehoren, viel- 

 leicht zu ElateiopJiaiies, etc." 

 Dysmorphognathus Solier. 



1851, Gay, Hist. fis. Chile. Zool., vol. 5, p. 37. 



Type.— Dysmorphog7iath us fnscus Solier. (Monobasic.) 



Note. — Cand^ze (1859) reduces the genus to synonymy under Grammo- 

 pJiorus Solier and says : "L'espece d^crite sous le noni de D. fuscus n'est 

 que le male de Grammophorus impressicollis Solier." 

 Eanus LeConte. 



1861, Class. Coleo. N. A., vol. 1, p. 171. Two species. 



Type. — Limmmis estriatus LeConte, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 10, 

 p. 434, 1853. (Present designation.) 



Note. — Candeze (1863) refers the type to Corymbites Latreille. 

 Echthrogaster Blackbuen. 



1900, Proc. Roy, Soc. Victoria, vol. 12, pt. 2. p. 213. 

 Type. — Echthrogaster lugubris Blackburn. (Monobasic.) 

 Ectamenogonus Buysson. 



1893, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, p. 314. Two species. 



Type.—Ludius wontandoni Buysson, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, p. 202, 1888. 

 (Present designation.) 



Note. — Schwarz (1906) reduces the genus to a subgenus of Elatcr Lin- 

 naeus and refers to the type as having been originally described as a 

 Sieatodcrus. 



> Fossil. 



