BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA. 
ZOOLOGIA. 
Class INSECTA. 
Order COLEOPTERA. 
Tribe RHYNCHOPHORA. 
Fam. CURCULIONIDA. 
Subfam. ATTELABINZ. 
ATTELABUS. 
Atielabus, Linneus, Syst. Nat. ed. xii. 1, p. 619 (1767) ; Olivier, Ent. v. p. 5. 
Chyphus, Thunberg, Act. Ups. vil. p. 110. 
Cyphus, Bedel, Faune Col. Seine, vi. pt. 2, p. 23°. 
Attelabus is at present a genus of more than 100 species, distributed over the 
continental regions of the world, and no doubt numerous in the tropics, as there are 
many undescribed species extant in collections. South America and the Antilles have 
yielded at present the larger proportion of its representatives. 
Bedel! has recently proposed to transfer the name AZtelabus to the allied genus 
Apoderus, on the ground that in the tenth edition of the ‘Systema Nature’ an insect 
now referred to Apoderus was the representative of Attelabus. In the Munich 
Catalogue, which I here follow, the origin of the genus is assigned to the twelfth 
edition of the ‘Systema Nature’; or the genus may be credited to Olivier, whose 
work really inaugurated the modern arrangement of the genus and its allies. Hither 
course appears sufficiently satisfactory, and enables us to avoid the confusion caused 
by Bedel’s proceeding [which involves the alteration of some hundreds of names of 
species of Curculionide— Apoderus being called Attelabus, Attelabus Chyphus (emended 
to Cyphus), and Cyphus Neocyphus|, so that I have no doubt the course I now adopt 
will receive the sanction of Coleopterists. 
Attempts have been made in a more or less distinct manner to subdivide the genus; 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. IV. Pt. 3, April 1889. BB 
