482 Mr. K. G. Blair on the Fahr'tcian Types of 



LVI. — On the Fahrician Ti/pes of Tenehrionidsd {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 whicli he contributed 

 notes on those types of Tenebrionidse described by Fabricius 

 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 Sysr. 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 

 .species. Wliere 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 typo. 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. Ilimat'ismus variegatus, Spec. Ins. i. p. 323 {Tenehrid). 

 Tropical Africa. 



The description and figure given by Olivier (Ent. iii. 

 ]795, 57, p. 14, pi. ii. fig. 16) are correct — indeed, the 

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

 jiortant 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 tyj)e-specimens. 



llaag-llutcnbeig, however, was mistaken in his identifica- 

 tion of the sjK'cies in his monographs of this genus, and his 

 inisidcntificalions are very geneially disseminated in collec- 

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

 received from Dr. P^^iinguey as //. disspptus, Per. 



