i54 SYNONYMICAL REMARKS 



NOTE XVI. 



TWO SYNONYMICAL REMARKS ABOUT 

 CURCULIONIDAE 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



1. Macropterus Verlorenii S. v. V. (Tijdschr. v. Entom. 

 XIV (1871). p. 101; pi. 4, fig. 1) from Timor = Cer- 

 cophorus fioccosus Chevrol. (Ann. Soc. Ent. Prance. 1880. 

 p. 259 , fig.) from the same island. 



2. Rhynchophorus (Calandra) ruhigineus Wiedem. (Mag. 

 Zool. I, 3. 1819. p. 174) and Gyllenhal (Schönh. , Gen. 

 Cure. IV. p. 824) := Rhynchophorus elegans Guer. (Icon. 

 Règne anim. Ins. p. 176; 1843). — Notwithstanding Chevrolat 

 (Ann. Soc. Ent. France. 1882. p. 564) created a new ge- 

 nus, viz. Raratasis , for the reception of Rhynchophorus 

 ruhigineus (erroneously called by him rubiginosus) , its syno- 

 nym elegans occurs as the first Indian species in the genus 

 Rhynchophorus (1. c. p. 560). 



Leyden Museum, April 1891. 



!N^otes from the Leyden IVIuseutn, "Vol. XIII. 



