No. 2353. GENOTYPES OF THE ELATERIDAE—HY8L0P. 665 



Plastelater^ Handliesch. 



190&-1908, Die fossilen Ins., vol. 1, p. 438, pi. 41, fig. G. 



Type. — Elatcr neptuni Giebel, Ins. Vorw., 91, 1856. (Monobasic.) 

 Note.—" Wenn der Protliorax ganz eiiialten ist, so kanu man diese Form 



wohl nicht zu den Elateriden stellen, eher zu den Buprestiden." 

 [Plastocerus LeConte, not Schaum, 1852, Rhippoceridae] = Octinodes Cand^ize. 



1853, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 10, p. 502. 



Type. — Plastocerus schaumii LeConte. (Monobasic.) 

 Platycrepidius Candeze=(Eudactylus SallIJ:, not Fitzinger). 



1859 Monogr. Elat., vol. 2, p. 159, ten species. 



Type. — Eudactylus wapleri Sall6. (Present designation.) 

 Note. — I have given as new name for Eudactylus Sall^ a name suggested 



by Germar (in. litt.) and published by Candeze, Monogr., vol. 2, 1859, as 



a synonym of Eudactylus Sall6. 

 [Platicrepidius Motschulsky, nomen nudum.] 



1859, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou., vol. 32, pt. 2, 358. In table without species. 

 Note.— Motschulsky evidently had reference to the manuscript name 



Platycrepidius Germab. 

 Platynychus Motschtjlsky. 



1858, Etudes Ent., vol. 7, p. 58. Seven species. 



Type. — Platynychus indicus Motschulsky. (Present designation.) 

 [Plectostermis (Lacordaire) O. Schwarz, typ. err.]=Plectrostenius Lacou- 



DAIEE. 



1906, Gen. Ins., fasc. 46, p. 304. 

 Type. — Plectrosternus rufus Lacokdaiee. 

 [Plectrostenus (Lacordaire) Marshall (typ. err.)]=Plectrosternus Lacor- 

 daire. 



1873. Nomen. Zool., p. 233. 

 Type. — Plectrosternus rufus Lacordaire. 

 Plectrosternus LAROCDAiRE=(PIectosternus Schwarz and Plectrosternus Mar- 

 shall, typ. err.). 

 1857, Gen. Col., vol. 4, p. 227. ' 



Type. — Plectrosternus rufus Lacordaire. (Monobasic and by original 

 designation. ) 



Note. — Suggested as new name for Oxysternus, but, as he fixes type, they 

 are not isogenotypic. 

 Pleonomoides Schwarz. 



1906, Gen. Ins., fasc. 46, p. 302. 



Type. — Nomopleus flavus Schwarz, Deutsche Ent. Zeit., p. 292, 1903. 

 (Monobasic.) 

 Pleonoraus MENETRiEs=(Ictis Cand£:ze, not Kaup, 1829) = (Macrodes Dejean, 

 nomen nudum). 

 1849, Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb., vol. 6, p. 48, pi. 2, fig. 6. Two species. 

 Type. — Pleonoraus tereticoUis Menetries. (Designation of Lacordaii-e, 

 Gen. Col., vol. 4, p. 222, 1857.) 

 Pleurathous Reitter. 



1905, Bestim. Tab., Heft 56, pp. 33, 48. Five species. 



Type. — Athous godarti Mulsant, Opusc. Ent., vol. 6, p. 75, 18.53. (Original 

 designation.) 

 Podeonius Kiesenwetter. 



1857-61, Naturg. Ins. Deut., vol. 4, pp. 229, 349. 



Type. — Elater acuticornis Germab, Ins. Sp. Nov., p. 57, 1824. (Monobasic.) 



