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but Miss P. Schuyler reports that the collection does not contain any beetles 
from the Say collection. 
Say described several species based on specimens he collected while he was 
with Major Long’s expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1819~20 (Say, 1825 : 
259). It seems probable that he retained them and that they were destroyed 
with his collection. However, if he did not retain them, they may have passed, 
with other material collected on this expedition, to Peales Philadelphia Museum 
(Horn & Kahle 1937 : 369). This collection suffered many vicissitudes and 
was finally broken up (Colston, 1909). Part passed, via the Boston Museum 
to the Boston Society of Natural History and part to Barnum’s American 
Museum which was destroyed by fire. Mr R. Lutts, Curator of collections at 
the Museum of Science, Boston, where the Boston Society collection was 
housed, has informed me that in the early 1940’s the bulk of the Society’s 
research material was transferred to other institutions including Boston and 
Harvard Universities. Mr Lutts adds that he can find no reference to Major 
Long’s expedition or Peale’s Philadelphia Museum material in the accession 
records. There seems little hope of tracing this material. 
Schaum, Herman Rudolph (1819-1865). A nephew of E. F. Germar, he was 
also interested in the Elateridae and appears to have retained at least part 
(see Candéze, 1857 : 132 and 100) of his uncle’s Elaterid collection. Part of 
Schaum’s collection was acquired by Janson and is now in the BMNH. What 
became of the rest of the Schaum collection is unknown. The BMNH possesses 
a manuscript list entitled ‘Catalogus Elateridarum collectionis Schaumii’. 
It appears to be a list of the Schaum Elateridae acquired by Janson. Only 
a small proportion of Germar’s species are included in the list. 
Schwarz, Otto (1861-1908). Elateridae via O. Leonhard to the DEI, Eberswalde. 
Schwarz did not publish type-designations nor did he record the number of 
specimens on which he based his description or where they were preserved. 
Unless there is evidence to the contrary, I have assumed that his type-material 
is in his own collection. 
Ulke, Henry (1821-1910). Coleoptera to CM, Pittsburgh. 
Wahlberg, Johan August (1810-1856). Collected in ‘Caffraria’ from 1838 to 
1845. For an account of his itinerary see Brink (1935 : 25-34). The material 
is now in the N.R., Stockholm. Boheman described Lacon amplicollis and 
troglodytes from ‘tractitus fluvii Gariepis’ [Orange R.], nanus, paenulatus and 
decipiens from ‘Terra Natalensi’ and parcus from ‘regione fluvii Limpopoensis’. 
Through the kindness of Dr Hallin, I have been able to examine all the syntype 
material of these species. None of the specimens bear labels corresponding 
to the published locality, only ‘Caffraria’ and ‘J. Wahlb.’. In each case the 
specimen with Boheman’s determination label bears a type label which I 
am given to understand was added at a later date as a matter of curatorial 
routine. 
From Brink’s account of Wahlberg’s travels it would appear that the term 


