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Latreille, Pierre Andre (1762-1833). His first collection was acquired by Dejean 
(q.v.) in 1826. The Elateridae of the second collection were acquired by 
Janson (q.v.). 
LeConte, Henry (1825-1883). North American Coleoptera to MCZ, Harvard. 
LeConte’s specimens bear small coloured paper disks. Professor P. J. 
Darlington informs me that the colours are believed to indicate the following 
localities: 
pink = Middle States 
brick red or orange = Southern States 
yellow = Western States 
dark red = Devas 
light green = Nebraska & C [so forth]. In the past Nebraska was 
the name of a much larger area. 
dark green = New Mexico 
blue = Oregon & C. Oregon territory formerly included Wash- 
ington State 
light blue-grey = Lake Superior 
: Lewis, George (1839-1926). Lewis’s collection of Coleoptera from Japan, China 
and Ceylon was acquired by the BMNH in four instalments which were 
registered as follows: IgI0 : 320, Ig1I : 298, 1912 : 276, 1913 : 256. 
: Lewis paid two visits to Japan, the first in 1867-1872 and the second in 
1880-1881. Bates (1883) gives an account and detailed itinerary of the second 
visit. 
Lewis submitted the Elateridae collected in the course of the first visit to 
Candéze, who published a paper based on this material in 1873. Lewis (1894: 
36) records that Candéze returned the specimens to him but the presence of 
| specimens from Lewis’s first journey in the IRSNB, Brussels, suggests that 
Candéze retained representatives of some species. Some of the specimens 
may be syntypes. Lewis appears to have relabelled some of the specimens 
returned by Candéze. For example, Lacon twmens Candéze (see p. 49) was 
described from a single specimen. The BMNH possesses a single male from 
the Lewis collection which agrees well with the description but bears a determin- 
ation label., ‘Lacon tumens n. sp. Cdze’ in Lewis’s handwriting. Similarly 
the specimen of L. scrofa (see p. 208) which most closely resembles the descrip- 
tion is in the Lewis collection without Candéze’s determination label but with 
Lewis’s label ‘Lacon scrofa n. sp. Cdze’. 
Lewis described the Elateridae collected on the second expedition himself. 
Except in those cases in which he possessed only a single specimen, he did not 
generally record the number of specimens he had before him at the time of the 
description. His remark (1894: 26) that ‘the localities given are selected 
to furnish some information regarding the distribution of the species’ suggests 
that he did not record the localities of all the specimens on which the description 
