Recent work has shown that the preliminary revision of Atractomorpha by Banerjee & Kevan (1960), while basically not altogether unsatisfactory, is in need of considerable modification. The most important changes made include the recognition, as good species, of a number of taxa previously relegated to synonymy or to subspecific status. Two previously undescribed species have been discovered in the African ae A. dentifrons Bolivar is a synonym of A. similis and not of A. crenaticeps; A. brevicornis (Thunberg) is removed from partial synonymy with A. lata (Motschoulsky). A. blanchardi Bolivar is not synonymous with A. crenulata (Fabricius) but is conspecific with A. acutipennis (Guerin-Meneville) and is here tentatively recognized as a widely distributed south-west Asiatic subspecies (in place of A. brevis Uvarov, which, as now understood, is restricted to south-west Arabia). A. crenulata apparently has a more restricted distribution than previously thought, being largely replaced or complemented by A, angusta, except in India and Ceylon. Neotypes are designated for A. acutipennis blanchardi and for Truxalis oceanicus Montrouzier (=A. crenaticeps). Information regarding the type specimens of all nominal species of Atractomorpha except A. nipponica Steinmann is given, and lectotype designations are made wherever necessary. Photographs of almost all primary types, except that of A. nipponica, that have not previously been so illustrated are present. This last species may be a synonym of A. rufopunctata.