158 CoM. Eo von cHAMEBKK 
The description is based on material collected in AMBoINA by la Billardiére. 
Latreille (1829 : 451) included fuscus Fabricius in Adelocera. In the same year 
Eschscholtz (1829 : 32) transfered it to Melanotus and every subsequent worker 
has followed suit, listing fuscus Fabricius under Melanotus or one of its synonyms. 
The confusion seems to have arisen when Candéze (1860 : 336) synonymized E.fuscus 
Fabricius with Cvatonychus fuscus Erichson (1841: 106). The description of 
C. fuscus Erichson leaves no doubt that it is not conspecific with E. fuscus Fabricius. 
Erichson’s species is probably the Melanotus fuscus (Fabricius) of authors and in 
collections. 
Agrypnus gabonensis nom. n. 
Tilotarsus [sic] veductus Candéze, 1882 : 14. 
Lobotarsus veductus (Candéze) Schwarz, 1906 : 30. 
Agrypnus veductus (Candéze) comb. n. [Junior secondary homonym of Agrypnus veductus 
(Candéze, 1878).] 
The description is based on an unrecorded number of specimens from GABON. 
Type-material: ?>IRSNB, Brussels. 
The generic attribution is based on a specimen from Gabon standing over this 
name in the MNHN, Paris. 
Agrypnus gazagnairei (Candéze) comb. n. 
Tilotarsus [sicl gazagnaivei Candéze, 1889 : 74 (9). 
Centrostethus gazagnaivei (Candéze) Schwarz, 1898c : 414. 
LECTOTYPE (present designation). MApaAGAscAR: 3g, Madagascar, Museum 
Paris, Goudot, 1834; 4177; Lacon detalus Cat.-Mus.; Tilotarsus gazagnairei Cand. 
[?Cand.] Candéze vid. [unknown mss.| (MNHN, Paris). 
Agrypnus geminatus (Candéze) comb. n. 
Lacon geminatus Candéze, 1857 : 149, pl. 2, fig. 5. 
Lacon geminatus (Candéze) Neboiss, 1956 : 8. 
The description was based on an unrecorded number of specimens from Nouvelle- 
Hollande [Australia]. Since Candéze does not record the location of the material 
it is almost certain that it is in the BMNH (see history of the Candéze collection, 
p. 271). I do not know on what evidence Neboiss (loc. cit.) bases his statement 
that the type is in the IRSNB, Brussels. Pending further investigation the BMNH 
specimen is here treated as a syntype. 
Syntype examined. AUSTRALIA: 9, N. W. Holl., C. Cdze.; Janson coll. ex Candéze; 
Lacon geminatus C. N. Austr. Th. [Cand.]; Lacon geminatus Cdze., ex coll. Cand. 
[Janson] ? Type [Gahan] (BMNH). 
