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third, fifth, and seventh each with about nine, and the ninth with about five, coarse setiferous punctures, 
and the spaces between the punctures towards the apex longitudinally raised or costate. the first interstice 
also with two or three finer setiferous punctures near the apex, the apices obtuse ; beneath blackish-piceous, 
very shining, almost smooth; legs piceous, the tarsi lighter, comparatively stout; anterior femora on 
their inner edge clothed with long hairs, and the anterior tibie armed with a sharp triangular tooth on 
the inner side some distance beyond the middle, the space between the tooth and the apex densely clothed 
with fulvous hair, in both sexes. 
Length 121-13 millim.; breadth (at shoulders) 34 millim. (¢ @.) 
Hab. Nicaracta, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Bugaba 1000 feet (Champion). 
Var. a. Legs and antenne (the two or three basal joints excepted) reddish-testaceous. 
Hab. Nicaraeva, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
Var. B. The elytra reddish-castaneous, the base (sometimes very narrowly, sometimes to beyond the middle) 
geneous or greenish-eneous ; the legs and antennex varying in colour, the former from piceous to reddish- 
testaceous, the latter from fusco-ferruginous to reddish-testaceous. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, San Feliz, Tolé (Champion). 
Var. y. The prothorax more closely and more distinctly punctured; the elytra brownish-piceous, with a 
translucent sneous tinge, the setiferous punctures on the third interstice fewer in number. 
Hab. GuaTEMALA, Panima in Vera Paz (Champion). A single male example. 
Three of the forms were collected by myself in plenty in Chiriqui; from Nicaragua 
eight examples have been received, three of the typical form, and five of the variety a. 
S. interrupta is probably an ally of the Colombian S. hilaris, Makl. (to judge from the 
description), it having towards the apex the spaces between the setiferous punctures on 
the third, fifth, seventh, and ninth interstices of the elytra longitudinally raised; the 
present insect is, however, larger, and has the thorax and elytral strie differently 
punctured. Other allied species inhabit Tropical South America. 
5. Statira chiriquina. (Tab. I. fig. 4, ¢.) 
Elongate, «neous or greenish-wneous, very shining, the elytra sometimes entirely and sometimes laterally 
and towards the apex of a more cupreous tint. Head almost smooth; eyes large; antennz moderately 
long and joints 3-10 rather elongate in both sexes, piceous or piceo-ferruginous, the three basal joints 
darker—the apical joint in the male rather longer than, in the female about equal to, joints 8-10 
united ; prothorax about as long as broad, the sides much rounded anteriorly, strongly constricted behind, 
and obsoletely margined at the extreme base, the hind angles sharp and prominent, the base broadly 
margined and the margin raised, the surface sparsely and very minutely punctured; elytra with shallow 
intrahumeral depression, moderately long, widest a little beyond the middle, parallel towards the base, 
very finely and shallowly punctate-striate, the punctures closely placed though a little more scattered 
towards the apex, the interstices perfectly flat throughout, the third and fifth each with five or six, the 
seventh with two or three (one near the base and one or two near the apex), and the ninth with about 
three (towards the apex), deep and coarse setiferous punctures, the first very deeply impressed within the 
sutural angles, the latter obtuse; beneath blackish-piceous, very shining, almost smooth ; legs sneo- 
piceous, the tarsi rather lighter ; anterior femora on their inner edge clothed with long scattered hairs, 
and the anterior tibice armed with a short triangular tooth on the inner side beyond the middle, the 
space between the tooth and the apex densely clothed with fulvous hair, in both sexes. 
Length 11-123 millim.; breadth (at shoulders) 33-33 millim., (¢ 2.) 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. LV. Pt. 2, April 1889. CC 
