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NOTES ON CERTAIN 



MEXICAN AND GENTRAL-AMERIGAN ZYGOPIDES 



described by M. Desbrochers des Loges 



by G.-l\ ClinuijHon 



M. Desbrochers des Loges in his récent « Étude sur les Curcu- 

 lionides exotiques », troisième mémoire (antea, pp. 123-126), 

 appears to hâve overlooked the monograph of the Central-American 

 Zygopina published in the Biologia Gentrali-Americana in 1906, and 

 two of his supposed new species are synonymous with others des- 

 cribed and figured in that work : 



1) Zygops latevittata et var. quadrinotata Desbr., I. c, p. 124 = 



vars. of Z. trivittata Champ., Biol. Centr.-Am., Col. iv. 5, 

 p. 30, t. 2, figg. 25, 25a. 



2) Parazygops 8-maculata Desbr., I. c, p. 125 = Zygops amœnula 



Champ., Biol. Centr.-Am., Col. iv. 5, p. 27, t. 2, figg. 

 19, 19a. 



This species by no means conforms to the définition of the genus 

 Parazygops (type Z. luctuosa Desbr.), which is said to hâve the 

 rostrum « latitudine vix longius, etc.» (Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1890, 

 p. cxxvni). 



Zygops macutipes Desbr., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., xxxv, p. 40 

 (1X91), liv., p. 126(1910). This species was redescribed and 

 figured in the «Biologia». (Col. iv. 5, p. 29, t. 2, figg. 23, 

 23a). 



Zygops impressiventris Desbr. (antea, p. 126), had been already 

 sunk by me as a synonym of Z. tridentata Gyll., which is 

 redescribed and figured in the same work (p. 29, t. 2, 

 figg. 22, 22a, b). 



Zygops valida Desbr. (antea, p. 126), apparently a « nomen 

 nudum », is said to be synonymous with Peltopliorus poly- 

 mitus Boh. of which Z. (Apatorhynchus) leopardinus Desbr., 

 is certainly a variety. M. Desbrochers, it may be observed, 

 proposes to change the name Peltopliorus Schônherr, 

 owing to its being preoccupied in Hemiptera; but this 

 innovation is scarcely required, as Burmeister's genus was 



