RECLASSIFICATION OF SUBFAMILY AGRYPNINAE 233 
According to Horn & Kahle (1925 : 201) Palisot de Beauvois’ collection passed 
to the BMNH via Dejean, Janson and Godman and Salvin. The absence of de 
Beauvois’ labels is probably due to Janson (see p. 276). 
Fleutiaux (1919 : 15) states that de Beauvois’ type from Ovare [sic] cited by 
Chevrolat (1852 : 631) is in his collection (now in the MNHN, Paris). In my 
opinion this specimen (see below) cannot be the type. Palisot de Beauvois recorded 
lepidotus from ‘prés de la ville de Benin’. He obviously regarded Oware as an 
entirely different locality describing it as ‘pays voisin de la ligne et limitrophe du 
Royaume de Benin’ (1805, introduction to the Flore de Oware et de Benin en Afrique). 
Oware is almost certainly the district of Owerri in the Eastern Province of Nigeria. 
The only specimen () in the Fleutiaux collection from the Chevrolat collection 
and obviously the one to which Fleutiaux refers bears the following labels: 2 grey 
labels with illegible numbers [? reference to locality list now lost]; lepidotus; Agryp- 
nus lepidotus ? P.B. 11, pl. t.6 [next words illegible] ex Mus. Ol. [Chevrolat, according 
to note by Fleutiaux on the underside of the label]; lepidotus Coll. Beauv. (coll. 
Oliv.) Cand det., typique Mon. [Fleut.]; Fleut. Voy. Alluaud et Jeannel Elat. p. 
[Fleut.]. Fleutiaux was probably misled into believing this to be de Beauvois’ 
type by Chevrolat’s statement (1852 : 630) that he had purchased part of Palisot 
de Beauvois’ collection and the fact that the species was marked with an asterisk 
in Chevrolat’s work indicating that it was represented in his collection. The speci- 
men is conspecific with the lectotype. 
Meristhus lepidotus var. a Candéze. LECTOTYPE (present designation). 
SUDAN: Nubia; Janson coll. 1903.130; Meristhus lepidotus Pal. de B. var. Cdze, 
Agrypnus bohemanni Dej. ex coll Dejean [Janson] (BMNH). The absence of 
Candéze’s, la Ferté Sénectére’s or Dejean’s labels is probably due to Janson (see 
p. 276). 
Meristhus (Meristhus) squameus Candéze 
Meristhus squameus Candéze, 1893 : 10. 
The description is based on an unrecorded number of specimens collected at 
Boma, Bas Congo [ZarRrE], by Tschoffen. 
Type-material: ? IRSNB, Brussels. 
The generic attribution is based on the description. 
Meristhus (Sulcimerus) cristatus Horn comb. rev. 
Meristhus cristatus Horn, 1871 : 299; pl. 4, fig. 2. 
Rismethus cristatus (Horn) Golbach, 1969a :141. 
Holotype. 4, dark steel-blue paper disk (? indicates California); Type, 8144; 
Meristhus cristatus Horn [Horn] (MCZ, Harvard). 
The description is based on a single specimen collected by John Xantus at Cape 
San Lucas (between San José del Cabo and La Paz according to Horn (1894 : 302)), 
California. 
