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Mr. Charles J. Gahan on the 
celis leptis from Panama with North American examples 
of L. fuscata, I am uuable to satisfy myself that the 
species are distinct. A specimen in the British Museum 
collection is ticketed Venezuela ; and Chevrolat has 
mentioned an example from Bahia which he considered 
distinct, but which appears to me to belong to the same 
species. 
ZaplouSj Leconte. 
160. Zaplous annulatusj Chevr. 
Ecyrus annulatusj Chevr., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1862, 
p. 250. 
Hah. Cuba. 
A small dark brown insect, about 4 mm. long, with a very short 
pubescence partly brownish, partly grey. Elytra with two some- 
what ill-defined greyish bands, one basal, the other, broader, post- 
median. Prothorax transverse, slightly rounded and unarmed at 
the sides, finely punctured, but with the punctures almost hidden 
by the pubescence. Elytra more strongly and distinctly punctured. 
Tibiae pale greyish-testaceous, with a dark ring in the middle. 
Antennse shorter than the body, very sparsely setose, with the 
third joint longer than the fourth, with these two joints together 
as long as all the succeeding joints, which are subequal to one 
another, and slightly thicker than the third ; with the bases of the 
second and third, all but the apex of the fourth, and the whole of 
the eighth joint pale testaceous with an ashy- white pubescence ; 
the rest of the antennae blackish-brown. 
This species is closely allied to Zaplous huhhardi, Lec. 
As belonging to the latter species I have determined the 
two examples which stood in Dejean's collection under 
the names of Exocentrics exiguus and E. nanus. It has 
been pointed out elsewhere that Ecyrus exiguus, Lec, 
was founded upon the male of Ecyrus dasycerus. Say ; 
and an examination of the type of CEhaceres — (E. exiguus, 
Thoms. — shows that this is nothing but the female of a 
species of Eupogonius — E. pilosulus, Chevr. It follows 
that Q^haceres cannot be maintained as a genus, and that 
the synonymy of the single species placed under this 
generic name in the Munich Catalogue really involves 
three quite distinct species, each belonging to a diflferent 
genus. 
