654 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 58. 



Ludiophanes ^ Wickham. 



1916, Bull. Mu^. Comp.Zool. Harvard, vol. 60, no. 12, p. 522. 

 Type. — Ludiophanes haydeni Wickham. (Original designation.) 

 Ludioschema Reitteb. 



1S91, Wiener Ent. Zeit, vol. 10, p. 238. 



Type. — Ludioschema emerichi Reitteb. (Monobasic.) 



Note. — O. Schwarz (1906) reduces the genus to synonymy under Agonis- 

 chius Cand£;ze and reduces the type to synonymy under A. obscuripes 

 Gyllenhal. 

 [Ludie Latbielle, vernacular name] = Elater Linnaeus. 

 1825, Fam. Nat. Rdgne Anim. Paris, p. 248. 

 Type. — Elater ferrugineus Fabricius. (Monobasic.) 



Note. — Candeze (1863) refers Elater ferrvgineus Linnaeus and Fabbicius 

 to Ludius Latkeille. Isogenotypic with Elater. 

 Ludius EscHscHOLTZ=(Calosirus Koenig, not Thomson, 1S59). 

 1829. Thon. Archiv., vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 84. Thirty-three species. 

 Type. — Elater cvpraetis Fabbicius, Ent. Syst., p. 212, 1792. (Present desig- 

 nation. ) 



Note.— Candeze (1863) reduces the genus to synonymy under Corymbites 

 Latreille. 

 [ludius Latreille, not Eschscholtz, 1829] = Elater Linnaeus. 

 1834, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 3, p. 154. 



Type. — Elater ferrugineus Fabricius, Syst. Eleuth, vol. 2, p. 225, 1801. 

 (Original designation.) 



Note. — Isogenotypic with Elater Linnaeus and Steatoderus Eschscholtz. 

 Gemminger and Harold (1869) give the bibliographical reference as " Fam. 

 Nat., 1825." This is not a description with status, as the name given is 

 Ludie, a vernacular name. O. Schwarz (1906) refers the type to Stcato- 

 dcrus Eschscholtz. 

 Luzonicus Fleutiaux. 



1916, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 11, No. 3, sec. D, p. 232. 

 Type. — Luzonicus bakeri Fleutiaux. (Monobasic.) 

 Lycoreus Candeze. 



1857, Jlouogr. Elat., vol. 1, p, 206. Five species. 



Type. — Lycoreus rcgalis Candeze. (Present designation.) 



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

 under Iphis Castelnau. 

 [Macrodes (Dejean) Candeze] =Pleonomus Meneteies. 



1833, Dejean, Cat., ed. 3, p. 94. One manuscript species. 

 1863, Candeze, Monogr. Elat, vol. 4, p. 498. 



Note. — This genus is first connected with a described species in Candeze's 

 Monograph, where it is placed in synonymy under Pleonomus strictus Can- 

 deze. O. Schwarz (1906) reduces the genus to .synonymy under the sub- 

 genus Nomopleu'i Reitteb, crediting the genus Macrodes to Seidlitz, and 

 reduces the type to synonymy under N. elongatus Bbisout, Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 France, p. 388, 1866. 

 Macromalocera Hope. 



1834, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, vol. 1, p. 13, pi. 1, fig. 3. Two species. 

 Type. — Macromalocera caenosa Hope. (Present designation.) 



Note. — Candeze (1863) says in regard to the other originally included 

 species: " Une autre e.spece est decrite et figur6e par M. Hope (1834) sous 

 le nom de M. ceratnboidcs; elle no diffdre de celle-ci que par sa couleur 

 entiSrement flave." 



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