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M. Desbrochers des Loges [Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. liv. p. 126 (April, 1910)] proposes 

 to change the name Peltophorus, Schonherr (1845), on account of the name clashing 

 with that of Peltophora, Burmeister (1835), to Opalocetus. This change is unnecessary, 

 and if a new name is wanted that of Apatorhynchus, Desbr. (1891) (type, Zygops 



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ZYGOPS (p. 21). 



M. Desbrochers (I. c. pp. 124, 125) has described, amongst others, two supposed 

 new species of this genus from our region under the names Z. latevittata and 

 Parazygops 8-maculata ; these are synonymous with Z. trimttata (p. 30) and 

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HOPLOCOPTURUS (p. 53). 



6 (a). Hoplocopturus niveiventris, sp. n. (Tab. IX. figg. 31, 31 a.) 



Hoplocopturus sp., antek, iv. 5, p. 55, nota. 



SubeUiptic, moderately shining, pieeous, the antennae and the tips of the tarsi ferruginous; the prothorax 

 sparsely clothed with transversely arranged, long, hair-like scales, which are clustered into a faint 

 submarginal vitta on each side ; the elytra mottled with smaller, ochreous, fuscous, and white scales, 

 the ochreous scales clustered into a large, irregular, common, X -shaped patch on the disc and various 

 scattered spots, and the white ones into two transverse marks at the sides ; the vestiture of the legs and 

 under surface (the mesothoracic epimera excepted) white, the femora fusco- annulate towards the apex. 

 Prothorax short, obliquely narrowed from the base, closely, coarsely punctate, the punctures transversely 

 confluent on the disc, the disc in one specimen with a smooth median line. Elytra much wider than the 

 prothorax, depressed along the suture anteriorly, deeply punctate-striate, the interstices feebly convex 

 and closely punctulate. Meso- and metasternum hollowed between the middle coxae, the mesosternal 

 depression limited anteriorly by an arcuate ridge, the mesothoracic episterna with a smooth space above 



the cox*e. Legs elongate ; femora unidentate, the posterior pair with a minute tooth placed at some 





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knees armed with a short, and the others with a long, spine. 



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Length 5, breadth 2\ millim. 



Hab. Nicakagua, Chontales (Janson). 



Two specimens, one (as noted, antea, p. 55) now without a head. Near E. nubilus 

 and H. sulphur em, differing from both in the transversely rugose prothorax, the sparser 

 vestiture, which is white beneath, the shining surface, &c. The elytral markings are 

 more irregular than in H. spinipes, and ochreous in colour. 



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