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  Mr. 
  K. 
  G. 
  Blair 
  on 
  the 
  Fabrician 
  Types 
  of 
  

  

  LVI. 
  — 
  On 
  the 
  Fahriclan 
  Tiipesofl^e\'\^hv\o\\\(\d5:[Cohoptera) 
  

   in 
  the 
  Banks 
  Collection. 
  By 
  K. 
  G. 
  Blair. 
  

  

  (Published 
  by 
  permission 
  of 
  the 
  Trustees 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Museum.) 
  

  

  This 
  paper 
  is 
  supplementary 
  to 
  that 
  published 
  by 
  Gebien 
  in 
  

   Deutsch. 
  Ent. 
  Zeitschr. 
  1906, 
  p. 
  209, 
  in 
  which 
  he 
  contributed 
  

   notes 
  on 
  those 
  types 
  of 
  Tenebrionidse 
  described 
  by 
  Fubricius 
  

   that 
  are 
  preserved 
  in 
  the 
  Museums 
  of 
  Copenhagen 
  and 
  Kiel. 
  

   The 
  Banks 
  Collection, 
  now 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  is 
  also 
  

   rich 
  in 
  the 
  types 
  of 
  this 
  author, 
  and 
  a 
  survey 
  of 
  these, 
  

   together 
  with 
  Gebien's 
  notes, 
  goes 
  far 
  towards 
  a 
  revision 
  of 
  

   the 
  Fabrician 
  types 
  of 
  this 
  family. 
  

  

  The 
  species 
  are 
  taken 
  in 
  the 
  order 
  adopted 
  in 
  the 
  most 
  

   recent 
  Catalogue 
  (Gebien 
  in 
  Junk's 
  ' 
  Coleopterorum 
  Cata- 
  

   logus,' 
  1910-1911). 
  Of 
  most 
  of 
  them 
  Fabricius 
  states 
  defi- 
  

   nitely 
  that 
  the 
  types 
  are 
  in 
  the 
  Banks 
  Collection, 
  though 
  in 
  

   a 
  few 
  cases 
  no 
  such 
  information 
  is 
  given 
  ; 
  in 
  such 
  cases 
  

   (with 
  one 
  exception) 
  the 
  descriptions 
  are 
  contained 
  either 
  in 
  

   the 
  Syst. 
  Ent. 
  (1775) 
  or 
  in 
  Spec. 
  Ins. 
  i. 
  (1781), 
  in 
  one 
  or 
  

   other 
  of 
  which 
  works 
  the 
  Banksian 
  species 
  are 
  described. 
  

  

  In 
  some 
  cases 
  more 
  than 
  one 
  specimen 
  is 
  placed 
  above 
  the 
  

   name 
  in 
  question, 
  and 
  these 
  frequently 
  belong 
  to 
  different 
  

   f^pecies. 
  Where 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  evidence 
  in 
  favour 
  of 
  one 
  or 
  

   other 
  being 
  regarded 
  as 
  the 
  type, 
  and 
  one 
  of 
  them 
  belongs 
  to 
  

   the 
  species 
  usually 
  known 
  in 
  collections 
  by 
  that 
  name, 
  I 
  

   have 
  taken 
  it 
  as 
  being 
  the 
  type. 
  Where 
  no 
  comment 
  is 
  

   added, 
  the 
  species 
  may 
  be 
  taken 
  as 
  being 
  correctly 
  identified 
  

   in 
  collections, 
  or, 
  at 
  any 
  rate, 
  as 
  appearing 
  with 
  that 
  name 
  in 
  

   the 
  British 
  Museum 
  collection. 
  

  

  1. 
  Himatismus 
  variegatus, 
  Spec. 
  Ins. 
  i. 
  p. 
  323 
  (Tenehrio). 
  

   Tropical 
  Africa. 
  

  

  The 
  description 
  and 
  figure 
  given 
  by 
  Olivier 
  (Er)t. 
  iii. 
  

   1795, 
  57, 
  p. 
  14, 
  pi. 
  ii. 
  fig. 
  16) 
  are 
  correct 
  — 
  indeed, 
  the 
  

   description 
  refers 
  directly 
  to 
  that 
  of 
  Fabricius. 
  It 
  is 
  im- 
  

   portant 
  to 
  remember 
  that 
  Olivier 
  had 
  access 
  to 
  the 
  Banks 
  

   Collection 
  while 
  his 
  woik 
  was 
  in 
  progress, 
  so 
  that 
  his 
  descrip- 
  

   tions 
  and 
  figures 
  of 
  Fabrician 
  species 
  described 
  from 
  this 
  

   collection 
  are 
  taken 
  from 
  the 
  actual 
  type-specimens. 
  

  

  Haag-Rutenberg, 
  hov\ever, 
  was 
  mistaken 
  in 
  his 
  identifica- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  in 
  his 
  monographs 
  of 
  this 
  genus, 
  and 
  his 
  

   misidentifications 
  are 
  very 
  generally 
  disseminated 
  in 
  collec- 
  

   tions. 
  //. 
  variegatus, 
  Haag 
  (nee 
  Fabr.), 
  has 
  recently 
  been 
  

   received 
  from 
  Dr. 
  Peringuey 
  as 
  II. 
  disseptuSj 
  Per. 
  

  

  