146 CM. Bs von, HAVE TK 
Agrypnus curtus (LeConte) sp. rev., comb. n. 
Adelocera curtus LeConte, 1853 : 491. 
Lacon curtus (LeConte) Candéze, 1857 : 156. 
Adeloceva curtus LeConte; Fleutiaux, 1926 : 96. 
LECTOTYPE (present designation). U.S.A.: 9, brick red disk [= Southern 
States, see p. 277]; curtus 2 (MCZ, Harvard). Length: 10-7 mm. 
Paralectotype. 9, brick red disk; Type, 2379 [MCZ curatorial label]; Lacon 
curtus Lec. [LeC.] (MCZ, Harvard). Length: 9-6 mm. 
The published locality is Georgia. As LeConte records the length as -43 [inches 
= II-3 mm] the larger specimen, which is also more the complete, of the two speci- 
mens in the LeConte collection has been designated as the lectotype. Why the 
paralectotype bears a label with the name Lacon in LeConte’s handwriting is un- 
known. LeConte may have replaced his original label with one to correspond with ~ 
Candeéze’s Monograph. 
Arnett (1952: 118) and also Golbach (1968: 198) place curtus in synonymy 
with rectangularis Say, 1825. Since the type of vectangularis is lost (see p. 204) 
and the synonymy cannot be confirmed, curtus is here treated as a good species. 
Arnett (loc. cit.) comments that the species displays a range of variation in the 
puncturation and the size of the interstriae of the elytra. This occurs in the material 
standing as cuvtus in the BMNH collection. These specimens also display a range 
of variation in the length of the wings. Some resemble the type-material in that 
the wing attains the base of the fifth abdominal sternite, while in others the wings 
barely attain the posterior margin of the third abdominal sternite. 
LeConte states that ‘this is the Adelocera curtus of the Dejean catalogue’. Four 
specimens (I g, 3 9, Am. Bor.) from the Dejean collection in the BMNH agree well 
with the lectotype, except that they are slightly smaller in size (g—10-5 mm.) and 
have shorter wings. 
Agrypnus cuspidatus (Klug) comb. n. 
Elatey (Conoderus) cuspidatus Klug, 1833 : 66 (1834 : 154). 
Tilotarsus [sic] boildieur Candéze, 1857 : 176. [Synonymized by Candéze, 1874 : 108.] 
Centrostethus cuspidatus (Klug) Schwarz, 1898c : 414. 
Elater (Conoderus) cuspidatus Klug. LECTOTYPE (present designation). 
MADAGASCAR: 4, 16086 [museum catalogue number = Madagascar, Goudot]; 
Madagasc. Goudot (MNHU, Berlin). The specimen stands beside a _ blue 
Gerstaecker label: cuspidatus Klug, boildieui Cand. Madag. Goud. The absence of 
Klug’s label is probably due to Gerstaecker (see p. 275). 
Tilotarsus boildieut Candéze. Holotype ¢, Tilotarsus boildieui Cand., type | 
[Gahan]; Coquerel; Tilotarsus cuspidatus Klug (Rev.) boildieui Cdze (Mon.) ex | 
coll. de Laferté [Janson]; Janson coll. 1903.130 (BMNH). The absence of a Candéze’s 
determination label is probably due to Janson (see p. 276). 
The published locality is Madagascar. 

