
RECLASSIFICATION OF SUBFAMILY AGRYPNINAE 189 
Rottgor; India or. Mus. Hbst. Nr. 16126. 2 9, India or. Mus. Hbst. Nr. 16126 
(MNHU, Berlin). 
The specimens stand beside a yellow label in Gerstaecker’s handwriting: muticus 
Cand.,+ Elater muticus Hbst.+ Ind. or. The absence of Herbst’s determination 
label is probably due to Gerstaecker (see p. 275). The published locality is ‘Ost 
Indien’. 
GERMAR’S INTERPRETATION OF Elater muticus HERBST. Germar refers to 
Herbst, 1806 : 93; tab. 166, fig. 10 but as he records that the specimens before 
him probably came from Arabia (corrected, loc. cit. p. 440, to Siam) it can be 
assumed that he had before him material determined from the description. For 
the history of the Germar collection see p. 275. Neither the DEI, Eberswalde, 
or NMHU, Berlin contain this material. Candéze (1857: 154) states that he 
received Germar’s specimens from Schaum. The BMNH manuscript catalogue 
of the Schaum collection lists two specimens of muticus Helf. [sic] from Arabia. 
The BMNH collection contains two female specimens without localities from the 
Schaum collection. One bears a label: L. muticus Hbst. collect. Germ. in Candéze’s 
handwriting. I believe that these specimens, which are correctly identified, are 
those on which Germar based his interpretation of muticus Herbst. 
Agrypnus myamoti (Nakane & Kishii) comb. n. 
Cryptolacon myamoti Nakane & Kishii, 1955 : 1; pl. 1, fig. 1. 
Colaulon (Cryptolacon) myamoti (Nakane & Kishii) Kishii, 1961 : 25. 
Holotype. JAPAN: 3g, Takarajima 29.V.1953, T. Nakane leg. Allotype: 9, 
Takarajima, 31.V.1953, IT. Nakane leg. 
Paratypes: 41 ex, Takarajima, 26—30.V.1953. 9 ex, Nakanoshima, 4—13.VI.1953, 
S. Miyamoto, T. Nakane & S. Uéno leg. The type-material is in the Osaka 
Municipal Museum of Natural History, the Entomological Laboratory of the 
Kyushu University and in the Nakane and Kishii collections. 
Agrypnus mysticus (Candéze) comb. n. 
Lacon mysticus Candéze, 1857 : 104. 
Adelocera mysticus (Candéze) Fleutiaux, 1926 : 96. 
Holotype. Mapacascar: 9, Laf. Madagascar; Madagascar; Janson coll. 
1903.130; L. mysticus type [Cand.]; Lacon mysticus Cdze. Cand. Type e coll. de 
Laferté [Janson]; 38 bis (BMNH). 
Agrypnus nagaoi (Ohira) comb. n., sp. rev. 
Colaulon (Sagojyo) nagaot Ohira, 1966 : 7. 
The description is ‘based on a holotype and nine paratypes from the Ryukyu 
IsLaANbs, Japan. The location of the material is not recorded. It is probably 
