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LEPTUSA Kraatz— Continued 



Variant spellings : 



Laptusa Solsky, 1875, p. 269." 

 Leptus Otto, 1890, p. 101." 

 LEPTUSINA Bernhauer, 1900a, p. 198. [Subgenus of Ocyusa.l 

 Genotype: Leptttsina liosnica Bernhauer. 

 Fixed hy : Bernhauer, 1900a, p. 198, by monotypy. 

 Later citations : L. hosnica Bernhauer, by Fenyes, 1918, p. 23. 

 Synonyms : ( See Ocyusa ) . 



Notes : This is recorded as Leptusina Ganglbauer in both the Zoological 

 Record for 1900 aud the Index Zoologicus for 1880-1900. 

 LESPINUS [Error for Lispinus]. 

 LESTA Blackwelder, new genus. 



Oenotype: Lesta longo-elytrata (Goeze) (Staphylinus). 

 Fixed by : Blackwelder, here, by original designation. 



Notes : This new name is made necessary by the removal of Lesteva to the 

 genus previously called AntJiophagus. The new genus was previously 

 called Lesteva and was described by Ganglbauer in 1895 on page 712 under 

 that name. 

 LESTERA [Error for Lesteva], 

 LESTEUA [Error for Lesteva]. 

 LESTEVA Latreille, 1796, p. 75, without species. 



Oenotype: Lesteva alpina (Fabricius) (Staphylinus). 



Fixed ty: Latreille, ISIO, p. 427, by subsequent designation from the first 



included group of species. 

 Later citations: L. carahoides (Linne), by Curtis, 1830, pi. 303; by West- 

 wood, 1838c, p. 173; lS38a, p. IS; by Shuckard, 1839, p. 90. L. licolor 

 (Fabricius), by Chevrolat, 1846, p. 319, not in first group. L. dichroa 

 (Gravenhorst), by Cuvier, 1849, p. 188. L. Mcolor (Gravenhorst), by 

 Chenu and Desmarest, 1857, p. 109 ; by Thomson, 1859, p. 48, not in first 

 group. "L. longelytra Goeze," by Lucas, 1920, p. 372; by Tottenham, 

 1949b, p. 357 ; not in first group. 

 Discussion : Since this genus was published without mention of species, 

 the first citation of species in the genus must be found before the geno- 

 type can be determined. The next reference to the genus appears to 

 have been by Latreille in 1802 (cited as 1803 by Tottenham and definitely 

 later than Gravenhorst, 1802). Here there is an enlarged description 

 and the following: "Gen. Lesteve; lesteva. (G. Antophagus. Graven.) 

 Exemple. Carabus abbreviatus. F." 



If the reference to "Antophagus" (error for Anthophagus) implied that 

 it was a full synonym of Lesteva, then the first included group of species 

 consisted of the seven species placed in Anthophagus by Gravenhorst plus 

 abbreniatus (Fabricius). In this case, alpinus (Fabricius), designated 

 by Latreille in 1810, would be the genotype. 



If this reference to Anthophagus is not accepted as complete synonymy, 

 the genus Lesteva would have abbreviata (Fabricius) as type by being the 

 first included species. 



Tottenham argues for the first of these choices, but he claims that then 

 Latreille fixed the type in 1804 by his expression "c'est apres cette espeee 

 que j'avais forme ce genre." Even if this be judged to be unambiguous 

 selection of a genotype, it is invalid because the species cited, longo- 

 elytratus Goeze, was not included in those put in the genus in 1802. 



''* Hor. Soc. Bnt. Rossicae, vol. 11. 

 '« Societas Ent., vol. 5. 



