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of Coccinella 18-spilota, succinea and tetraspilota Hope, 1843 in the same 
museum leaves little doubt that Hope probably based most of his descriptions 
on specimens belonging to the East-India Company. 
Inspection of the BMNH collection has shown that it contains specimens 
regarded by a number of different workers as the types of 39 of the 49 species 
described by Hope in 1843. A few specimens lack registration labels but the 
remainder bear labels indicating that they were acquired from the East-India 
Company. Most specimens bear a small round label with the word ‘China’ on 
one side and ‘Dr Cantor’ on the reverse but a few are labelled ‘Penang’. 
The unknown author of a short biography of Cantor cut from an unidentified 
publication and pasted on three cards in the BMNH library card index remarks 
that ‘many of his [Cantor’s] data as regards the locality—particularly those 
labelled Penang are incorrect’. The writer appears to be referring to Cantor’s 
collection of reptiles and amphibians but I suspect (see orientalis Hope p. 192) 
that the same may apply to the insect collection. 
Cardon, René P. (1879-[date of death unknown). Pére Cardon, Jesuit missionary 
in India and keen insect collector, sent specimens collected in Chota Nagpore, 
Tetara, Konbir-Nawatoli and later at Barwai to his friend and colleague Pére 
Renard, Préfet des Etudes du Collége St Servan at Liége (Candéze, 1890: 
CXLVII). These collections have not been located, but it seems probable that 
Candéze acquired the Elateridae. The IRSNB, Brussels, Oberthur, Fleutiaux 
and Fry collections all contain specimens collected by Cardon and determined 
by Candéze. 
Specimens believed to form part of the syntype series of certain species 
(e.g. succinatus Candéze, p. 48) do not bear locality labels corresponding 
to the published type locality. Instead they are labelled ‘Bengal’ or ‘Chota 
Nagpore’. It is assumed that Candéze obtained more detailed information 
from Cardon. 
Candéze (1890 : 46) describes Chota Nagpore as ‘un province du Bengale 
occidentale s’entendent au sud de la grande plaine du Gange’ and two years 
later (1892c : 481) he quotes Cardon’s companion P. Maene, S.J., who describes 
their parish as ‘Le Barwai’ [=Barwa 23°12'N., 84°18’E.], le Chechari, le Kasir 
et une partie de Noaghar . . . qui sont compris entre 22°58’N. and 33°30’N. 
and 84°E. and 84°30’E.’ The area is traversed by the rivers Sunk [=Sankh] 
and Koel. 
Castelnau, Francis L. N. de C. de Laporte. Comte de (1810-1880). Material 
from North and South America to MNHN, Paris. First private collection 
to NMV, Melbourne. The Elateridae of his second collection, which were 
in rather poor condition, were offered for sale by Deyrolle and purchased 
by Candéze (q.v.) in 1872. 
Some writers refer to this worker as Laporte. Musgrave (1932 : 180) states 
that at first he wrote under the name of Laporte or Delaporte but later that 
of Castelnau. Both the Schenkling catalogue (1925) and the Derksen and 
