
RECLASSIFICATION OF SUBFAMILY AGRYPNINAE 253 
The description is based on an unrecorded number of specimens from ABYSSINIA. 
Type-material: ?IRSNB, Brussels. 
Confirmation of Arnett’s generic attribution is based on the description. 
Lanelater longicornis (Gahan) comb. n. 
Agrypnus longicornis Gahan, 1900 : 26; pl. I, fig. 11. 
Holotype. SoMALI REPUBLIC: g, Cent. and East Somaliland. Capt. June 5— 
October 29.97 and pres. 1897 by C. V. A. Peel; Agrypnus longicornis Gahan. Type 
[Gahan]; 1900.128 [presented by Prof. E. B. Poulton, Oxford] (BMNH). 
The published locality is Central or East Somaliland. 
This species is not listed in the main part of the Schenkling (1925) Catalogue 
and is assumed to have been overlooked by Arnett (1952). See p. 241. 
Lanelater lopezei (Fleutiaux) 
Agrypnus lopezei Fleutiaux, 1934¢ : 477. 
Lanelater lopezei (Fleutiaux) Arnett, 1952 : 105. 
The description is based on an unrecorded number of specimens in the collections 
of the author and the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Experimental Station, Hawaii. 
Syntype examined. PuHILipPINEs: ¢g, Diklom, Bukidnon, Mindanao P. I. 
2000 ft, 3.26.32 [altitude altered from 3000 ft and date added in manuscript]. 
F. C. Haddon collection; Agrypnus lopezei Fleut. type [Fleut.]. 1 3, same locality 
but with the printed altitude 3000 ft (MNHN, Paris). 
Lanelater luridus (Fabricius) 
Elater luridus Fabricius, 1781 : 265. 
Agrypnus punctatus Candéze, 1857 : 26. Syn. n. 
Agrypnus sondaicus Candéze, 1857 : 33. Syn. n. 
Agrypnus moestus Candéze, 1857 : 34. Syn. n. 
Agrypnus giluus Candéze, 1865: 5. Syn. n. 
Lanelater luridus (Fabricius) Arnett, 1952 : 105. 
Elater luridus Fabricius. LECTOTYPE (present designation). dg, Elat. luridus 
Fabr. sp. Ins. n. 3 [unidentified handwriting] (BMNH, Banks collection). 
Paralectotype: 9, head and prothorax lost, no labels (BMNH, Banks collection). 
The published locality is Coromandel [INp1A]. The paralectotype does not 
agree with the females of the BMNH Juridus series and probably belongs to a 
different species. 
Agrypnus punctatus Candéze. LECTOTYPE (present designation). JAvA: 9, 
Java; Janson coll. 1903.130; Agrypnus punctatus Cand., Cand., type (e coll. 
Laferté); D. Hope (BMNH). 
