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India (madurensis). Both stnuatus and madurensis were originally 
described in the genus Holosus. 
In the Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums in 1929 
(vol. 14, p. 438) Cameron added a new species from the Malay Penin- 
sula (selangorensis), and in 1930 in the Fauna of British India 
(Staphylinidae, vol. 1, p. 66) he transferred bistriatus Fauvel of the 
Indo-Malayan region from Lispinodes and placed madurensis Bern- 
hauer asa synonym. Of these six names, representatives of maduren- 
sis, sinuatus, selangorensis, and bistriatus are available for study. 
Under the present definition of the genera of this tribe, longipennis, 
sinuatus, and bistriatus are definitely not Pseudolispinodes and should 
be transferred to Lispinus. 
In the case of madurensis there have apparently been some errors 
and surely some uncertainty. The following review may justify the 
conclusion I have reached at this time: 
1914. Holosus madurensis (Bernhauer, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 64, p. 
83), described by comparison with Holosus sinwatus Bernhauer from one 
example from ‘‘Chambaganoor (Madura, Ostindien).’’ 
1915. Lispinus madurensis (Bernhauer, Ent. Blatter, vol. 11, p. 251), described 
by comparison with Lispinus impressicollis Motschulsky, from one example 
from ‘‘Chambaganoor (Madura, Siidindien).”’ 
1933. In the Coleopterorum Catalogus (pars 129) Scheerpeltz (following 
Cameron in the Fauna of British India) listed these species as follows (pp. 
1010 and 1015, respectively) : 
Pseudolispinodes bistriatus Fauvel, 1895 (syn. madurensis Bernhauer, 
Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 64, p. 83, 1914). From “O,. Ind.: 
Burma, Madura, Sikkim; Indo-China, Philippines, Sumatra.” 
Lispinus madurensis Bernhauer, Ent. Blatter, vol. 11, p. 251, 1915. 
From “‘O. Ind.: Nilgiri-Hills, Madura.” 
It was assumed both by Cameron and by Scheerpeltz that the two species 
were distinct and that they belonged in different genera. Cameron recorded 
that he had seen the type of Lispinus madurensis Bernhauer, 1915, but not 
of the other. 
1942. Specimens labeled Lispinus madurensis Bernhauer from the Nilgiri Hills 
(identified by Dr. Cameron) are in both the Baker collection in the U. S. 
National Museum and in my own collection. 
(1) These specimens belong to Pseudolispinodes as herein defined, 
(2) They agree closely with Bernhauer’s comparison of madurensis 
and sinuatus (1914), 
(3) They agree closely with Bernhauer’s comparison of madurensis and 
impressicollis (1915), 
(4) They are quite distinct from bistriatus from several collections 
(including several identifications by Dr. Cameron). 
From these facts I conclude that Bernhauer described his one 
Chambaganoor specimen twice as a new species, placing it in two 
distinct genera. Cameron saw the specimen with the later label of 
Lispinus madurensis, recognized more specimens in his own material 
from Nilgiri Hills, and then surmised that the unseen Holosus (by 
