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 found in two places: the Crotch collection (CUMZ) ; or the 



Oberthur collection (MNHN) . 



Many of Lacordaire's species were described from the 

 Dupont collection. Horn & Kahle indicate that the Dupont 

 collection was divided with some of the material being 

 deposited in the collections of G. V. Mniszech and R. 

 Oberthur. Nicole Berti at the Museum National d'Histoire 

 Naturelle, Paris (in litt .) , stated that the Oberthur 

 collection, including the Mniszech collection, is at the 

 MNHN, and that Oberthur indicated on the back of a box that 

 specimens studied by Lacordaire are in the collection of 

 Mniszech. For Ischyrus, the specimens labeled "Type" from 

 this collection matched the original descriptions in both 

 morphology and label data. Most specimens in this 

 collection do not have "Type" labels, but they are 

 potentially type material and should be considered in 

 subsequent type designations for Lacordaire species. 



Lacordaire also studied specimens from the collections 

 of L. A. A. Chevrolat and L. J. Rieche. These erotylid 

 collections, and others, were acquired by G. R. Crotch. 

 Crotch's Erotylidae collection, at the Cambridge University 

 Museum of Zoology, is rich in types. In this collection, 

 label data indicate which specimens are types, and often 

 from whose collection they came. The Ischyrus specimens 

 labeled "Type" fit the original descriptions, label data, 

 and collection of origin. 



