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ocelli bciiiir normal. Tlio name Odonlolarra must therefore 

 sink. 



Liris ducah's, Sm. 



Larrndn ducalis, Sm, Jourii. I'roc. Linn. Soc, Zool. iv. p. 84, Suppl. 



(18G0). 

 Lirix tiigripennis, Cam. Mem. Manch. Lit. & riiil. Soc. (4) ii. p. 1-31 



(1889). 



These seem to me to be identical. A specimen from 

 Camcrons collection taken at Poona, and marked by him as 

 the type x'iolareiponnh (probably an error tor nitjvipennin), is 

 only a male oi' ducalis. 



XXX T. — Some Farther' Notes on LamelUcorn Beetles of the 

 Suhfamily Dynastinae. By Gilbert J. Arrow. 



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



[Plate XIII.] 



M. Semenov (Rev. Russe Ent. xii, 1912, p. 499) has objected 

 to my treatment of his generic name Crater as a synonym of 

 Podalgus, Burmeister, on the ground that the fji-st species 

 attributed to the latter by Barmeister is its proper type, and 

 that Lacordaire was wrong in restricting it to the second 

 species. Happily, such a rule as this has never been accepted, 

 or many well-established genera would fall. Burmeister 

 himself began the process of dismembering his composite 

 genus, but without re-defining it, and Lacordaire, in doing 

 this, was entitled to take as its type any of the species left in 

 it by its author, and naturally selected the African one 

 indicated, although not named, as the type by Burmeister. 



By an unfortunate coincidence, my paper upon the Mada- 

 gascan genus Lonchofus was printed without the knowledge 

 that Herr Sternberg had, a short time previously, published 

 descriptions of several species of the genus. Herr H. Prell 

 has kindly sent me Sternberg's types for comparison with 

 mine, and I have found that L. ruqosicollis, Stornb., is 

 L. boreal is f Arrow, while L. splendens, Stern b., is the 

 species I regard as L. lentus, Burm. The name curti- 

 coHis, Sternb., must be dropped, being based upon a deformed 

 specimen (apparently a female of L. lentus), whose thorax 

 shows exactly the .«ame abnormal condition as the specimen 

 of Bothy nus simpVicitarsus, Burm., described as B. monsirosiis 



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