﻿Tenebrlonidas 
  in 
  the 
  Banks 
  Collection. 
  487 
  

  

  25. 
  Alohates 
  morio, 
  Gen. 
  Ins. 
  1776, 
  p. 
  241 
  {Ilelops). 
  N. 
  

   America. 
  

  

  Tlie 
  collection 
  from 
  which 
  the 
  type 
  is 
  taken 
  is 
  not 
  stated, 
  

   hut 
  two 
  specimens 
  are 
  placed 
  over 
  this 
  name 
  in 
  the 
  Banks 
  

   Collection. 
  One 
  of 
  these 
  is 
  a 
  Taraxides, 
  and 
  need 
  not 
  

   be 
  further 
  considered. 
  Tiie 
  other 
  is 
  a 
  form 
  of 
  Alohates 
  

   harha'a., 
  Knoch, 
  and, 
  what 
  is 
  very 
  unusual, 
  bears 
  a 
  

   locality-label, 
  "Antigua." 
  In 
  this 
  connection 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  

   noted 
  that 
  while 
  both 
  the 
  Gen. 
  Ins. 
  (1776) 
  and 
  Ent. 
  Syst. 
  i. 
  

   (1792) 
  state 
  " 
  habitat 
  in 
  America 
  boreali," 
  in 
  Syst. 
  EI. 
  i. 
  

   (1801) 
  this 
  is 
  altered 
  to 
  " 
  in 
  America} 
  meridionalis 
  Insulis." 
  

   Though 
  there 
  is 
  an 
  element 
  of 
  doubt 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  Banksian 
  

   insect 
  being 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  Helops 
  morio, 
  ¥., 
  there 
  is 
  every 
  

   probability 
  that 
  this 
  is 
  the 
  case, 
  or, 
  at 
  any 
  rate, 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  

   conspecific, 
  and 
  this 
  identification 
  is 
  supported 
  by 
  the 
  descrip- 
  

   tion, 
  which 
  does 
  not 
  agree 
  with 
  the 
  Zophohas 
  morio 
  of 
  the 
  

   Catalogues. 
  

  

  What, 
  then, 
  is 
  Zopliohas 
  morio 
  of 
  our 
  collections 
  ? 
  The 
  

   name 
  is 
  synonymized 
  in 
  the 
  Catalogues 
  with 
  nigritus, 
  01. 
  

   (Ent. 
  iii. 
  1795, 
  57, 
  p. 
  5, 
  pi. 
  ii. 
  fig. 
  26), 
  but 
  once 
  more 
  

   Olivier 
  is 
  referring 
  to 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  Fabricius, 
  Helops 
  nigrita, 
  F., 
  

   Spec. 
  Ins. 
  i. 
  p. 
  325. 
  Fabricius 
  repeats 
  the 
  description 
  of 
  this 
  

   insect 
  several 
  times, 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  1. 
  Te?ie&?-wa<rai(/5, 
  Syst. 
  Ent. 
  1775, 
  p. 
  256. 
  (S.America.) 
  

  

  2. 
  lltlops 
  nigrita, 
  Gen. 
  Ins. 
  1776, 
  p. 
  241. 
  (S. 
  America.) 
  

  

  Synonymized 
  with 
  no. 
  1. 
  

  

  3. 
  „ 
  „ 
  Spec. 
  Ins. 
  i. 
  1781, 
  p. 
  325. 
  (S. 
  Ame- 
  

  

  rica.) 
  Synoiiymiz^^d 
  with 
  no. 
  1. 
  

  

  4. 
  „ 
  „ 
  Mant. 
  Ins. 
  1787, 
  p. 
  214. 
  (No 
  details.) 
  

  

  5. 
  „ 
  ,, 
  Ent. 
  Syst. 
  i. 
  1792, 
  p. 
  120. 
  (S. 
  Ame- 
  

  

  rica.) 
  (^opy 
  of 
  no. 
  3. 
  

  

  6. 
  „ 
  „ 
  Syst. 
  El. 
  i. 
  1801, 
  p. 
  160, 
  (Tranque- 
  

  

  bar.) 
  Synonymized 
  with 
  no. 
  5. 
  

  

  This 
  last 
  description, 
  thougli 
  expressly 
  synonj^nous 
  with 
  

   that 
  of 
  the 
  Ent. 
  Syst. 
  i. 
  1792, 
  evideiitly 
  refers 
  to 
  a 
  different 
  

   insect, 
  for, 
  in 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  new 
  locality, 
  we 
  have 
  the 
  

   further 
  details, 
  " 
  tibiae 
  anticte 
  in 
  altero 
  sexu 
  ante 
  apicem 
  

   sinuataj," 
  not 
  before 
  mentioned. 
  This 
  must 
  be 
  the 
  specimen 
  

   seen 
  by 
  Gebien 
  at 
  Copenhagen 
  and 
  referred 
  to 
  Pseudoblaps, 
  

   but 
  it 
  is 
  clearly 
  not 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  Tenehiio 
  atratus 
  (1775),= 
  

   Helops 
  nigrita, 
  F. 
  (1776), 
  and 
  for 
  it 
  the 
  name 
  F. 
  dispir, 
  

   Herbst 
  (1797), 
  will 
  therefore 
  stand. 
  

  

  The 
  other 
  live 
  references 
  apparently 
  do 
  relate 
  to 
  the 
  species 
  

  

  