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female which displays a greater degree of development and modification of the 
prothorax. The smooth patch, pore or brush of setae present on the terminal 
and/or penultimate abdominal sternites of the females of many Agrypnus species 
does not occur in Adelocera. 
DIsTRIBUTION. Up to the present time one species, (minutus (Candéze)) has 
been recorded from the Nearctic while the remainder occur in the Ethiopian and 
Oriental regions. All the Australian species listed under Adelocera by Neboiss 
(1961) following Van Zwaluwenburg (1959) have been found, on examination, 
to belong to the genus Agvypnus. 
BIOLOGY AND HABITS. Nothing is known of the history and habits of Adelocera 
species. The adults have been found on plants and trees and on the ground. 
SPECIES INCLUDED IN THE GENUS 
The following 75 species are now assigned to the genus. 
Because of the unusual type of sexual dimorphism displayed by certain species 
the genus has been studied in greater detail than the other genera included in 
this work. 
Every reference to each species has been consulted. In every case in which a 
worker has recorded a specimen or specimens, every effort has been made to locate 
and examine the material. Where this has proved possible, the reference is included 
in the specific synonymy of the appropriate species and the data on the material 
and its present location recorded. A list of any previously unrecorded specimens 
is also given. 
Adelocera adspersus (Candéze) 
Lacon adspersus Candéze, 1857 : 115. 
Adelocera adspersus (Candéze) Fleutiaux, 1926 : 96. 
LECTOTYPE (present designation). Inp1A: 9, N. India, Bacon; Janson coll. 
1903 : 130; adspersus Cdz. type [Cand.]; Lacon adspersus Cdze., Cand. Type 
e coll. de Laferté [Janson] (BMNH). 
Candéze records the locality as ‘Des Indes-orientales-boreales’ (see p. 271). 
I have not found any specimens with this locality. The discrepancy between 
the published locality and the label is almost certainly due to Janson (see p. 276). 
Candéze (1890 : cxcix and 1892c : 484) recorded this species from Chota Nagpore, 
(see p. 273). The Fleutiaux collection in the MNHN, Paris contains a female 
which I believe to be part of Candéze’s series. It bears Fleutiaux’s determination 
labels ‘adspersus teste Cand., Chota Nagp. Bengale’ and ‘Cand., C.R. Soc. Ent. 
Belge 1890, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belge 1892’. Beside the specimen there are two labels, 
also in Fleutiaux’s handwriting ‘non adspersus 1857’ and ‘non adspersus Cand. 
Mus. Brus. 1928’. The specimen is not conspecific with the lectotype. The IRSNB, 
Brussels also possesses a number of specimens standing as adspersus Candéze includ- 
ing one bearing Candéze’s label ‘adspersus Cand., Beng. P. Card.’. These specimens 
are not conspecific with the lectotype. Whether they are conspecific with the 
