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Tingis melanocephala: Kolenati 1856, p. 425 [Transcaucasus]. 



Monanthia eryngii (not Latrielle): Fieber 1861, p. 124. 



Monanthia (Catoplatas) melanocephala: Puton 1879c, p. 118 [Eryngium 



campestre] . 

 Monanthia melanocephala: Hueber 1893, p. 344. 



Catoplatus nigriceps Horvath 1905b, p. 569; 1906a, p. 89 [Hungary; 

 Caucasus; Potentilla].—Stiche\ 1926, p. 114; 1960a, p. 325— Hober- 

 landt 1943, p. 119 [Czechoslovakia].— Blote 1945, p. 88 [Tunisia].— 

 Drake 1948a, p. 7 [Japan].— Takeya 1951a, p. 18.— Kiritshenko 

 1951, p. 251. 

 Type: Unknown. 



Distribution: Czechoslovakia; Austria; Hungary; Germany; U.S.S.R. 

 (Caucasus; Transcaucasus); Japan; Tunisia. 

 Host Plants: Eryngium campestre; Potentilla sp. 



Note: The record of C. nigriceps in Japan is based upon a 9 specimen 

 labeled" Sappora-Matsum." kindly sent by the late Prof. Matsumura. 



*Catoplatus olivieri (Puton) 



Monanthia (Tropidochila) olivieri Puton 1873, p. 18 [Algeria]. 

 Monanthia (Catoplatus) olivieri: Puton 1879c, p. 117 [Sardenia]. 

 Catoplatus (Coscinopoea) olivieri: Stal 1874, p. 58. 



Catoplatus olivieri: Lethierry and Severin 1896, p. 21. — Horvath 1906a, 

 p. 90 [Tunisia].— Lindberg 1932a, p. 43 [Morocco].— Stichel 1960a, 

 p. 325. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Bone, Algeria; Paris Mus. 

 Distribution: Algeria; Tunisia; Morocco; Sardenia. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



Genus CELANTIA Distant 



Celantia Distant 1903b, p. 137.— Drake and Ruhoff 1960a, p. 43. 

 Type Species: Leptodictya vagans Distant. 



Celantia creta Drake 



Celantia creta Drake 1960, p. 366, fig. 17 [New Britain]. 

 Type: Holotype 0"; Kerawat, New Britain; Bishop Mus. 

 Distribution: New Britain Island, Bismarck Archipelago. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



*Celantia nitidula (Stal) 



Tingis (Tingis) nitidula Stal 1873, p. 130 [Australia]. 



Phyllontochila nitidula: Lethierry and Severin 1896, p. 17. 



Celantia nitidula: Drake and Ruhoff 1961b, p. 167. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Australia; Stockholm Mus. 

 Distribution: Australia. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



