656 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 68. 



Megathous Reitter. 



1905, Bestim. Tab., Heft 56, pp. 25 and 27. Eight species. 

 Type. — Athous menctriesi Reitter, Ent. Nach., p. 243, pi. 28, 1890. (Original 

 designation. ) 

 Melanactes LeConte. 



1853, Trans. Anier. Philos. Soc, vol. 10, p. 493. Seven species. 

 Type. — Melanactcs densus LeConte. (Present designation.) 

 Melanathous Reitter= (Malanathous Reitteb, typ. err.). 

 1905, Bestim. Tab., Heft 56, pp. 12-24. 

 Type. — Melanathous sequcnsi Reitter. (Munobasic.) 

 Melanotopsis Levfis. 



1894, Ann. Nat. Hist., ser, 6, vol. 13, p. 191. 



Type.— Mel a7wtus ccte Cand^ze, Monogr. Elat., vol. 3, p. 332, 1860. (Desig- 

 nation of Sharp, Zool. Record, 1894, p. 148.) 



Note. — O. Schwarz (3906) reduces the genus to synonomy under 

 Sphenicosomus Schwarz. 

 Melanotus (Megerle) Eschscholtz. 



1829, Thon. Arch., vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 32. Six species. 



Type. — Elatcr fnsciceps Gyllenhal, Schonh. Syn. Ins., vol. 3, p. 133, 1817. 

 (Present designation.) 



Note. — Elater Udvipes Herbst, which is type by designation of Westwood 

 (1840), can not be used as it is the type of Perimecus Stephens 1830. 

 Megerle (1801) is but a sales catalogue and has no taxonomic status. 

 Melanoxanthus Eschscholtz. 



1833, Dejean, Cat, ed. 3, p. 91. Three species, two of which are manuscript. 

 1836, Silbcrmann's Rev. Ent., vol. 4. In table, no species included. 

 Type. — Elater mclanocephalus Fabricitjs, Syst. Eleuth., vol. 2, p. 239, 1801. 

 (Monobasic.) 



Note. — Cand&ze (1859) reduces the type to synonymy under E. melano- 

 cephalus Thunberg. 

 Melanoxus Fletjtiaux. 



1918, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, p. 194. Two species. 



Type. — Pachyderes africanus Fleutiaux, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, p. 100, 

 1901. (Present designation.) 

 [Melantho Laporte de Castelnau, not Bowditch, 1822, Mollusca]=CrepicardTis 



CAND:feZE. 



1836, Silbermann's Rev. Ent., vol. 4, p. 10. Two species. 



Type. — Melantlio klugii Castelnau. (Present designation.) 



Note. — Dejean (1833) erects Crepicardus for the manuscript species 



Crepicardus miles Dejean. Cand^ze (1857) reduces Melantho costicollis 



LjVporte and Crepicardus miles Dejean to synonymy under Melantho klugii 



Castelnau. 

 Helanthoides Cand^ze. 



1865, Elat. Nouv., fasc. 1, p. 23. 



Type. — Melanthoides latimanns OandSize, 

 (Monobasic.) 

 Menetriesia Hyslop, new name=(Isosoma Menetries, not Bilberg, 1820). 

 New name for Isosoma Menetries, preoccupied. 



Type. — Isosoma elateroides Menetries. 

 Meristhus CandI:ze. 



1857, Monogr. Elat., vol. 1, p. 162. Four species. 



Type. — Meristhus scrobinula Cand^ze. (Present designation.) 



