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1. Sitophagus hololeptoides. 
Uloma (Ulosonia) hololeptoides, Cast. Hist. Nat. ii. p. 2207. 
Sitophagus solieri, Muls. loc. cit.? ; Lacord. loc. cit. ; Jacq. Duval, loc. cit. p. 306, t. 75. fig. 372 3"; 
F. Bates, Ent. Monthly Mag. ix. p. 99. 
Hypogena hololeptoides, Jacq. Duval, in Sagra’s Hist. de Cuba (Spanish edition), p. 63°. 
Adelina farinaria, Woll. loc. cit. p. 414°; loc. cit. p. 61. 
Hypogena complanata, De}. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 220; Lacord. Gen. Col. v. p. 336, nota. 
Ulosonia hololeptoides, Lacord. loc. cit. p. 337, nota®; Gemm. & Har. Cat. vi. p. 1964. 
Sitophagus castaneus, Reitter, Mitt. des Miinch. Ent. Ver. i. p. 9 (1877)’. 
? Hypogena cornigera, Dej. Cat. loc. cit. p. 220. 
Hab. Mextco® (coll. F. Bates, Oberthiir), Yucatan (coll. Pascoe), Ventanas (Forrer), 
Playa Vicente, Capulalpam, Vera Cruz, Cordova, Tuxtla (Sa//é), Mirador, Esperanza, 
Jalapa (Hoge); British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux) ; GUATEMALA, near the city, 
Capetillo, Zapote, El Tumbador, San Gerénimo, Tamahu, Senahu (Champion); Nica- 
RAGUA, Chontales (Janson), Chinandega (Sallé); Costa Rica, Cache (Rogers) ; Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).—AntiLLES1, Cuba®; ?Gurana, Cayenne®; ? Brazin®. 
There cannot, I think, be much doubt that the synonymy given above is correct, and 
that the insects described under the above names represent one and the same species. 
The insects introduced into France 234 and Madeira ®’, and described by Mulsant and 
Wollaston, are certainly identical with our common species. Castelnau describes his 
species as “ allongé,” and gives the length as 13 lin., but from the width given (14 lin.) 
this is probably a misprint for 24 lin., the size of small examples of our species. 
Typical examples of S. castaneus, from Reitter’s own collection, kindly lent me for 
examination by M. Réné Oberthiir, agree perfectly with the present species, which thus 
appears to have been described over and over again by different authors. SS. hololep- 
toides is common throughout our country, and there cannot be the slightest doubt that 
it is indigenous there. Lacordaire gives Cayenne * and Brazil * as localities, possibly in 
error; I have not seen it from south of Panama. 
Undeveloped males of this species have only the sides of the front of the head strongly 
raised and reflexed (the epistoma appearing abruptly and deeply emarginate), and not 
produced into recurved converging horns. 
S. hololeptoides may be readily known by its broad and depressed form and the 
peculiar cephalic armature of the male; the broad epipleure terminate abruptly a little 
beyond the last ventral suture ; the upper surface is shining and castaneous in colour; 
the intermediate coxal cavities are slightly open externally, but the trochantin is only 
slightly visible. 
2. Sitophagus fuliginosus. (Tab. VIII. fig. 1, 4.) 
Oblong ovate, subparallel, moderately convex, black, shining. Head closely and somewhat coarsely punctured ; 
in the male the epistoma broadly, abruptly, and deeply emarginate (the base of the emargination truncate) 
and shallowly impressed transversely, and the antennary orbits swollen and raised and produced anteriorly 
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