256 C. M. F. von HAYEK 
A. mucronatus var incisus Fleutiaux. Material examined: 1 9, Luang Prabang, 
Environs. Vitalis de Salvaza; Bou Nam Mo, Luang Prab. 3.3.18 mucronatus Cand. 
v. incisus Fleut. [Fleut.] (MNHN, Paris). 
Lanelater nitidus (Fleutiaux) 
Agrypnus nitidus Fleutiaux, 1918c : 167. 
Lanelatey mtidus (Fleutiaux) Arnett, 1952 : 105. 
LECTOTYPE (present designation). KENyA: 9, Kedong Valley, B.E.A., 
G.B. Mars 1913; Agrypnus nitidus Fleut., type [Fleut.] (MNHN, Paris). The 
Kedong Valley is about 35 miles east of Nairobi. 
Lanelater notodonta (Latreille) 
Elatey notodonta Latreille, 1827 : 275; pl. 58, fig. 6. 
Agrypnus notodonta (Latreille) Germar, 1840 : 253. 
Amaurus senegalensis Castelnau, 1840 : 237. [Synonymized by Candéze, 1857 : 27.] 
Agrypnus himerensis Ragusa, 1881 : 8; pl. I, figs 7 & 8. 
Agrypnus notodonta var. himerensis Ragusa, Ragusa, 1911 : 196. 
Agrypnus notodonta ssp. imerensis Binaghi, 1941a : 72. [Unjustified emendation. ] 
Lanelatey notodonta (Latreille) Arnett, 1952 : 105. 
Elater notodonta Latreille. The description is based on an unrecorded number 
of specimens from Sennar [SUDAN] collected by Caillaud in the course of his 
expedition to Meroé. There are no specimens from the Latreille collection in the 
BMNH. The location of the Caillaud collection is unknown. 
Interpretation of the species is based on the following specimen: Ecypt: 9, 
Egypt; Janson coll. 1903.130; Agrypnus notodonta Latr, Egypte [Cand.]; Agrypnus 
notodonta Latr. Cdze. ex coll. Candéze [Janson] (BMNH). Examination of the 
available material standing as notodonta in the BMNH, IRSNB, Brussels and 
MNHN, Paris has shown that there is no disagreement concerning the identity 
of this species. 






Amaurus senegalensis Castelnau. The description is based on an unrecorded 
number of specimens from SENEGAL. The material cannot be found in the IRSNB, 
Brussels. The interpretation of the species is based on the following specimens: 
2 2 on one cork mount, notodonta (Senegal) (NMV, Melbourne, Castelnau collection). 
These specimens may be the ones on which Castelnau based his description and 
which have been relabelled at a later date. They agree well with the description 
and measure 28-5 mm and 28 mm in length and 9 mm and 8 mm in width compared 
with the published measurements of 14 lines [= 31-5 mm (French lines) or 29-6 mm 
(English lines)] and 4 lines [= 9 mm or 8-4 mm]. 
Agrypnus himerensis Ragusa. The description is based on an unrecorded number 
of specimens collected in Siciry, Termini Imerensi in August and September. 
Ragusa first saw the species standing as Agryphus conspersus Dej. in the Baldassare 
Romano collection [not located by the present writer] in 1870 and again in the 
