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hind angles acute, the basal margin thick, moderately raised, and at the sides grooved within, the surface 
finely and densely punctured, the disc more sparsely so in the middle behind and there somewhat 
flattened ; elytra with very shallow intrahumeral depression, long, widest beyond the middle, deeply 
striate throughout, the strie with closely packed fine transverse impressions, the interstices convex, more 
strongly so towards the apex, the third with about six and the fifth with three (widely scattered between 
the base and apex), the seventh with one (at the shoulder), and the ninth with about six (towards the 
apex), fine setiferous punctures, the apices obtuse ; legs and under surface testaceous, the former rather 
stout. 
Length 117 millim.; breadth 2-22 millim. (¢.) 
Hab. Panama, Tolé (Champion). 
One example only. More elongate, larger, and more robust than S. penicillata, and 
also differing thus :—The eyes are larger; the thorax is not completely margined at 
the sides, and the surface is less densely and less confluently punctured (finely scabrous 
in S. penicillata); the elytra have no setiferous impressions on the first interstice and 
very few on the third and fifth; the legs are stouter ; and the posterior tibiz have not 
a brush of short hairs in the male. WS. folensis is more elongate than S. ceruleipennis, 
to which it is perhaps more nearly allied, and has larger eyes, more slender antennae, a 
narrower thorax, and much longer elytra, the latter with fewer setiferous impressions 
on the third and fifth interstices. 
25. Statira vilis. (Tab. I. fig. 20, 3.) 
Statira vilis, Makl. Act. Soc. Fenn. vii. p. 592°. 
Hab. Mexico}, Tuxtla, Playa Vicente (Sallé), Jalapa, Tapachula in Chiapas (Hoge), 
Atoyac, Teapa (H. H. Smith); British Honpuras, R. Hondo, Belize (Blancaneaua) ; 
GUATEMALA, Coatepeque, El Reposo, San Isidro, Pantaleon, Zapote, Tocoy, Teleman, 
Panzos, Cahabon (Champion); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, David (Cham- 
pion). 
Var. Entirely piceous, the prothorax almost smooth. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
This is a common and widely distributed species in Central America. In the form 
described by Maklin the head and thorax are reddish-testaceous, the elytra black or 
piceous, and the legs and under surface piceous ; the insect, however, is often entirely 
reddish-testaceous, about one third of our very numerous examples being thus coloured. 
S. vilis is a small, moderately elongate, shining species, with the eyes small, the head 
and thorax minutely and sparsely (sometimes more thickly) punctured, the latter 
obsoletely margined at the extreme base, and the elytra rather deeply punctate-striate, 
the third, fifth, and ninth (and sometimes the seventh) interstices each having from two 
to four widely scattered setiferous impressions. ‘The apical joint of the antenne in the 
male equals about five, and in the female rather more than three, of the preceding 
joints united. Of the variety a single example only was. captured. 
