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The description is based on a number of specimens collected by Cardon at Chota 
Nagpore (see p. 273). 
The type-material has not been located. 
The generic attribution is based on the following specimen. Inp1A: 9, Chota 
Nagpor. Bengal; L. variatus Cand. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belge. 1890: 148 [? Fleut.] 
(MNHN, Paris). The specimen may be part of the syntype-series. 
Agrypnus variolus (Candéze) comb. n. 
Lacon variolus Candéze, 1874 : 92. 
Lacon variolus (Candéze) Neboiss, 1956 : 14. 
Lectotype (Van Zwaluwenburg, 1959 : 354, see p. 9). AUSTRALIA: 9, N. Holl. 
Q’land; Janson coll. ex Candéze, 1903.130; Lacon variolus Cdz. n.sp. Queensland 
[Cand.]; Lacon variolus Cand. Type ex coll. Cand. [Gahan] (BMNH). 
The description is based on a number of specimens in the Candéze and Janson 
collections. There are no more specimens from Janson collection in the BMNH. 
The IRSNB, Brussels may possess additional specimens. 
Agrypnus versicolor (Fleutiaux) comb. n. 
Adeloceva (Archontas) versicolor Fleutiaux, 1932a : 51. 
Holotype. 9, Mapacascar: Brickville; Cap Refroigney Colonel Grimlet; versicolor 
Fleut. type [Fleut.] (MNHN, Paris). 
Agrypnus vestitus Klug comb. n. 
Elater (Agrypnus) vestitus Klug, 1833 : 66 (1834 : 154). 
Lacon vestitus (Klug) Germar, 1840 : 264. 
Lacon tumidicollis Candéze, 1857 : 108. [Synonymized by Candéze, 1874 : 53.] 
Adelocera vestitus (Klug) Fleutiaux, 1926 : 96. 
Elater (Agrypnus) vestitus Klug. LECTOTYPE (present designation). Mapa- 
GASCAR: 4g, 16095 [Museum catalogue number = Madagascar, Goudot]; Madag. 
Goud. (ZMHU, Berlin). 
Paralectotypes. 3 9, Madagascar, Goud. Nr. 16095 (ZMHU, Berlin). 
The specimens stand beside a blue Gerstaecker label: vestitus Germ. Elater 
vestitus Klug. Madag. Goud. The absence of Klug’s label is probably due to 
Gerstaecker (see p. 275). 
Lacon tumidicollis Candéze. LECTOTYPE (present designation). 9, Laf. 
Madagascar; Janson coll.; Lacon tumidicollis Cdze., Cand. type e coll. de Laferté; 
Monstrosité individu de vestitus [Cand.} (BMNH). 
GERMAR’S INTERPRETATION OF Lacon vestitus (KLUG). It is impossible to tell 
from Germar’s work whether he owned specimens of this species or whether his 

