STATIRA. 13 
Two examples. This species is no doubt allied to the Colombian S. steinheili, Mak. ; 
but its very much larger size, different colour, and shorter and broader thorax abun- 
dantly distinguish it. S. ingens is much larger and broader than any other known 
species of the genus. The setiferous impressions on the third and fifth elytral inter- 
stices form two irregular rows from the base to considerably beyond the middle. 
11. Statira melanocephala. (Tab. I. fig. 9, ¢.) 
Statira melanocephala, Makl. Act. Soc. Fenn. vii. p. 593". 
Statyra melanocephala, Chevr. Dej. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 236°. 
Hab. Mexico 12, Jalapa (Hoge). 
Var. Larger and more elongate ; the elytra relatively longer, piceous-brown, the base fulvo-testaceous and the 
suture lighter, the setiferous impressions on the alternate interstices coarser and deeper. Length 
93 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge). 
This species was described from two broken examples, one with the head black and 
the other with the head reddish-testaceous. 8. melanocephala is a small shining 
reddish-testaceous species, with the head, antenne, and knees black or piceous, and the 
alternate elytral interstices with numerous setiferous impressions scattered between the 
base and apex. The head and thorax are almost smooth, having, at most, only very 
minute widely scattered punctures; the latter is finely margined at the sides at the 
base and almost smooth; and the apical joint of the antenne in the male is equal to 
four, and in the female to rather less than three, of the preceding joints united. 
Numerous examples were captured by Herr Hoge; none of these have the head red. 
The variety, of which a single female example only has been received, merely differs in 
the colour of the elytra and in being larger and more elongate. 
12. Statira collaris. (Tab. I. fig. 10, 3.) 
Elongate, narrow, shining, above and beneath black or piceous, the prothorax (and sometimes the head also) 
red or reddish-testaceous. Head with some very minute punctures between the eyes, for the rest smooth, 
the eyes small ; antenne black or piceous—the apical joint in the male not so long as joints 8-10 united 
(the latter elongate), a little shorter in the female ; prothorax convex, about as long as broad, the sides 
immarginate, rounded anteriorly, and strongly constricted behind, the hind angles acute, the basal margin 
sharply raised and grooved within, the surface smooth ; elytra with shallow intrahumeral depression, long, 
widest beyond the middle, very finely and very shallowly punctate-striate, the interstices flat, the first, 
third, fifth, seventh, and ninth each with a row of closely placed fine setiferous punctures which extend 
from the base to the apex, the punctures each preceded by an indistinct elevation, the apices slightly 
pointed; legs black or piceous. 
Length 7-84 millim.; breadth 13-2 millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (//6ge). 
Five examples. In colour this species resembles 8. angustula, from which it differs 
in its more shining surface, less parallel shape, and very differently sculptured elytra. 
