14 : HETEROMERA. 
From S. melanocephala, apart from the difference in colour, it may be separated by the 
very much more finely and shallowly punctured elytral strie and by the setiferous 
impressions being each preceded by a sort of feeble elevation, and also by the much 
shorter apical joint of the antenne in the male. 
13. Statira ceruleipennis. (Tab. I. fig. 11, 3.) 
Moderately elongate, rather broad, subopaque, reddish-testaceous ; the elytra dull blue, the suture indetermi- 
nately and the epipleure reddish-brown. Head finely and thickly punctured, the eyes moderately large ; 
antenne ferruginous, stout, comparatively short, the apical joint ( ¢ ) about as long as joints 6-10 united ; 
prothorax large and broad, transverse, a little flattened on the disc, the sides finely margined at the 
extreme base only, moderately rounded anteriorly, and strongly constricted behind, the hind angles acute, 
the basal margin moderately raised, the surface densely and very minutely punctured; elytra with very 
shallow intrahumeral depression, moderately long, very deeply striate throughout, the stri# with closely 
packed fine transverse impressions, the interstices rather convex, strongly so towards the apex, the first 
with three (one at the base, the others at the apex), the third with about eleven and the fifth with seven 
(scattered between the base and apex), the seventh with two or three (one at the shoulder, the others at 
the apex), and the ninth with five or six (near the apex), fine setiferous punctures, the apices obtuse ; 
beneath obscure castaneous, very shining; legs rather stout, reddish-testaceous. 
Length 104 millim.; breadth 3 millim. (¢.) 
Hab. Mexico, Taretan (Hége). 
One male example. ‘This comparative broad species is not very closely allied to any 
other noticed here; it approaches S. multiformis. The elytra are dull blue, and the 
rest of the insect in great part reddish-testaceous. ‘The tibia are not grooved on their 
outer edge. The almost immarginate sides of the thorax and other particulars separate 
it from S. mexicana and its allies. S. cwruleipennis is broader and more robust than 
any other of the Central-American species with bluish elytra. 
14. Statira limbata. (Tab. I. fig. 12, 3.) 
Elongate, subopaque, reddish-testaceous ; the elytra usually more or less marked with piceous at the sides, 
sometimes wholly piceous with the exception of the suture, sometimes entirely reddish-testaceous, and 
slightly shining. Head smooth or with very minute scattered punctures, sometimes foveate in the 
middle between the eyes, the latter small; antenne varying from piceous to ferruginous, the intermediate 
joints distinctly widened towards their apex—the apical joint in the male about or scarcely equalling 
joints 8-10 united (the latter elongate), a little shorter in the female ; prothorax about as long as broad, 
the sides completely immarginate, rounded anteriorly, and strongly constricted behind, the hind angles 
acute, the basal margin moderately raised and at the sides deeply grooved within, the disc sometimes 
shallowly impressed in the middle behind, the surface smooth and opaque; elytra with shallow intra- 
humeral depression, moderately long, widest beyond the middle, finely and shallowly punctate-striate (the 
punctures sometimes transverse), the interstices flat or very feebly convex, the first with one (at the apex, 
sometimes obsolete), the third and fifth each with from four to six (widely scattered between the base and 
apex, the anterior ones sometimes obsolete), the seventh with one (at the shoulder, and, rarely, two or 
three near the apex), and the ninth with three or four (towards the apex), fine setiferous punctures, the 
apices obtuse; beneath (in all varieties) more or less testaceous ; legs usually reddish-testaceous with 
the apical half or third of the femora (and sometimes the tibie and tarsi) piceous, sometimes wholly 
testaceous. 
Length 53-8 millim.; breadth 13-23 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Mexico (coll. F. Bates), Vera Cruz, Cordova (Sallé), Atoyac (H. H. Smith), 
