Mr. G. J. Arrow 071 LamelUcorn Beetles. 257 ocelli bciiiir normal. Tlio name Odonlolarra must therefore sink. Liris ducah's, Sm. Larrndn ducalis, Sm, Jourii. I'roc. Linn. Soc, Zool. iv. p. 84, Suppl. (18G0). Lirix tiigripennis, Cam. Mem. Manch. Lit. & riiil. Soc. (4) ii. p. 1-31 (1889). These seem to me to be identical. A specimen from Camcrons collection taken at Poona, and marked by him as the type x'iolareiponnh (probably an error tor nitjvipennin), is only a male oi' ducalis. XXX T. — Some Farther' Notes on LamelUcorn Beetles of the Suhfamily Dynastinae. By Gilbert J. Arrow. (Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) [Plate XIII.] M. Semenov (Rev. Russe Ent. xii, 1912, p. 499) has objected to my treatment of his generic name Crater as a synonym of Podalgus, Burmeister, on the ground that the fji-st species attributed to the latter by Barmeister is its proper type, and that Lacordaire was wrong in restricting it to the second species. Happily, such a rule as this has never been accepted, or many well-established genera would fall. Burmeister himself began the process of dismembering his composite genus, but without re-defining it, and Lacordaire, in doing this, was entitled to take as its type any of the species left in it by its author, and naturally selected the African one indicated, although not named, as the type by Burmeister. By an unfortunate coincidence, my paper upon the Mada-gascan genus Lonchofus was printed without the knowledge that Herr Sternberg had, a short time previously, published descriptions of several species of the genus. Herr H. Prell has kindly sent me Sternberg's types for comparison with mine, and I have found that L. ruqosicollis, Stornb., is L. boreal is f Arrow, while L. splendens, Stern b., is the species I regard as L. lentus, Burm. The name curti-coHis, Sternb., must be dropped, being based upon a deformed specimen (apparently a female of L. lentus), whose thorax shows exactly the .«ame abnormal condition as the specimen of Bothy nus simpVicitarsus, Burm., described as B. monsirosiis Ann. tt Mag. X. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. xiv. 17
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