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Lacon modestus (Boisduval) Fleutiaux, 1926 : 94. 
Lacon coomani Fleutiaux, 1927 : 66. 
Lacon modestus var. coomani Fleutiaux; Fleutiaux, 1947 : 275. 
Zalepia modesta (Boisduval) Arnett, 1969 (May) : 11. 
Lacon (Zalepia) modesta (Boisduval); Golbach, 1969 (November) : 159. 
Elater modestus Boisduval. Lectotype (Van Zwaluwenburg, 1959 : 355). 
AUSTRALIA: 9, Dej. N. Holl.; Agrypn. modestus Boisd. Dej. Cat. (e coll. Dejean) 
[Janson]; Adelocera modesta Boisd. Cand., type. Cdze [Janson] (BMNH). 
Paralectotypes: 2 9, labels as lectotype but without the word ‘type’ on the 
determination labels (BMNH). 
Boisduval based his description on an unrecorded number of specimens from 
‘Nouvelle Hollande’ [Australia] in the Dejean collection (see p. 274). The absence 
of Boisduval’s and/or Dejean’s labels is probably due to Janson (see p. 276). 
Agrypnus mnigroplagiatus Blanchard. LECTOTYPE (present designation). 
Borneo: 9, Borneo, Bandjermassin, Jacquinot 1841: Museum Paris, Agrypnus 
nigroplagiatus [? Blanchard]; type de Blanchard [Fleut.]; Adelocera modesta 
Boisd. (MNHN, Paris). 
Lacon coomani Fleutiaux. LECTOTYPE (present designation). N. VIETNAM: 9, 
Hoa Binh. A. de Cooman; Lacon coomani Fleut., type [Fleut.] (MNHN, Paris). 
Fleutiaux (1947 : 275) gives a useful review of the synonymy and biology of this 
species. 
The description, distribution and size (5 [presumably German] lines, 12 mm) of 
Agrypnus cribrosus Eschscholtz (1829 : 32) suggests that this species may be 
conspecific with Lacon modestus (Boisduval), the only member of the subfamily 
Agrypninae recorded from Hawaii (Sharp & Scott, 1908 : 368). 
Eschscholtz based the description of cribrosus on an unrecorded number of 
specimens from ‘Sandwichii insulae’ [Hawaii]. The type-material has not been 
located (for history of the Eschscholtz collection see p. 274). Candéze (1857 : 161) 
comments that cribrosus resembles Agrypnus caliginosus Guerin but the distribution 
of this species appears to be restricted to Australia. Agrypnus cribrosus Eschscholtz 
is not recorded in the Schenkling (1925) catalogue, or Fleutiaux’s (1926) corrections 
thereto. 
Lacon monticola (Candéze) 
Adelocera monticola Candéze, 1897 : 6. 
Lacon monticola (Candéze) Fleutiaux, 1926 : 93. 
LECTOTYPE (present designation). ¢, Himal. Coll. Jekel; monticola Cand., 
n.sp [Cand.]; monticola Cand., type. El. nouv. VI, p. 6 [Fleut.] (MNHN, Paris). 
The published locality is ‘Himalaya’ without further details. 
Lacon nobilis (Fall) comb. n. 
Adelocera nobilis Fall, 1932 : 58. 
Aulacon nobilis (Fall) Arnett, 1969 : 11 

