
RECLASSIFICATION OF SUBFAMILY AGRYPNINAE 171 
Lacon confusus Candéze. The description is based on an unrecorded number 
of specimens from Madagascar received as micans from Klug and binotatus from 
Chevrolat. The length is recorded as 12-24 mm, but, as the corresponding widths 
are 3+-42mm, it seems probable that the second measurement is a misprint, 
and should read 14mm. Candéze (1874 : 53) synonymized confusus with Lacon 
wrroratus Klug, which he believed to be very variable in size. Fleutiaux (1899 : 222) 
states that Candéze’s confusus material consisted of two ‘formes’ (species in this 
context) and that the type of the larger one was in the MNHU, Berlin. I have 
not been able to find this specimen in the MNHU, Berlin collections. The BMNH 
contains a female bearing the following labels: Madagascar; Janson coll. ex. 
Candéze, 1903.130; Lacon confusus Cdz. Mad. Mnz. [Cand.]. The specimen is 
I4°5mm long, agrees well with Candéze’s description and is conspecific with 
the lectotype of ivrvoratus Klug. If further searches fail to discover Klug’s ‘micans’ 
specimen, I suggest that this specimen be designated as the neotype of Lacon 
confusus Candéze. 
The specimen which Fleutiaux regarded as the type of Candéze’s smaller species 
is a male in his own collection (now in MNHN, Paris) bearing the following labels: 
L. confusus type, Mon. 1, p. 109, Fleut. Bull. Mus. 99 : 22 [Fleut.]. The specimen 
stands beside a Chevrolat collection label: Lacon confusus Cand. Mon. 1, 1857, 
p. 109.16. Madagascar. The specimen measures I1°5mm and agrees with 
Candéze’s description. Despite the fact that it lacks any kind of label indicating 
that it was Chevrolat’s binotatus, I believe that it formed part of Candéze’s original 
confusus material. It is not conspecific with ivoratus Klug and belongs to a 
species unknown to me. 
GERMAR’S INTERPRETATION OF Lacon irroratus (KLUG). Germar (1840 : 265) 
refers to Klug’s description of zvroratus but he does not record whether he saw 
Klug’s material. The BMNH contains a male with the following labels: irroratus 
Kl. Madag. [Germar]; Janson coll. ex. Schaum, 1903.130; Md. [mss. on triangular 
blue label]; 1015. I believe that this specimen, which is conspecific with the 
lectotype of zvroratus Klug, is that on which Germar based his interpretation of 
the species. 
Agrypnus jansoni (Fairmaire) comb n. 
Lacon jansoni Fairmaire, 1871 : 40. 
Adeloceva jansoni (Fairmaire) Fleutiaux, 1926 : 96. 
The description was based on two specimens, one from Bourbon [REUNION] 
in the de la Ferté collection, which Fairmaire states Candéze believed to be a 
variety of L. irroratus (as virroratus, a misprint) and a second specimen in the 
same collection labelled Madagascar in Coquerel’s hand. I have not been able 
_ to find these specimens, which should be in the BMNH. If Fairmaire acquired 
these specimens they may now be in the MNHN, Paris or IRSNB, Brussels, 
Bee p. 275. 
The generic attribution is based on the following specimen: 1 9, Madagascar. 
