26 HETEROMERA. 
Three examples and fragments of two others. Allied to S. verewpacis, but with the 
upper surface much more shining ; the legs (the tarsi especially) and antenne much 
shorter, the latter not nearly so slender; the elytra shorter and much more brilliant, 
and the head and thorax shining and obsoletely punctured. In its brilliant metallic 
colour, S. wneipennis resembles certain species of Calleida inhabiting the same 
district. 
33. Statira erata. (Tab. I. fig. 25, 3.) 
Elongate, rather depressed, blackish-eneous, the elytra seneous, shining. Head with a few very fine scatiered 
punctures, the eyes moderately large; antenne rather slender, moderately long, ferruginous, the basal 
joints a little darker—the apical joint in the male equalling joints 7-10, in the female 8-10, united ; 
prothorax about as long as broad (sometimes a little shorter), the sides narrowly but distinctly margined 
from the base to the apex, a little rounded or slightly oblique in front, and strongly constricted behind, 
the hind angles very acute and prominent, the basal margin much raised and shallowly grooved within 
(deeply so at the sides), the surface very minutely, sparsely, and indistinctly punctured ; elytra with long 
and deep intrahumeral depression, very shallowly transversely impressed below the base, widest beyond 
the middle, moderately long, the disc slightly flattened, very closely, finely, and rather deeply punctate- 
striate, the punctures transverse, the interstices flat or very feebly convex, the first with three or four 
(near the apex), the third and fifth each with seven or eight (scattered between the base and apex), the 
seventh with from four to six (one at the shoulder and the others between the middle and apex), and the 
ninth with nine or ten (between the base and apex), rather deep setiferous punctures, the apices obtuse ; 
beneath brownish-piceous, shining ; legs slender, moderately long, piceous, the tarsi lighter. 
Length 9-10 millim. ; breadth (at shoulders) 24-22 millim. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hége), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith). 
Var. Entirely reddish-testaceous, the elytra with a translucent sneous tinge; the setiferous impressions on 
the seventh interstice (except in one example) more numerous and extending upwards towards the 
shoulder. (¢ Q.) 
Hab. GouateMaLa, Purula (Champion). 
Two examples of the type and three of the variety. ‘This insect is closely allied to 
S. mexicana, but it cannot be satisfactorily treated as a variety of that species. Out of 
a long series of examples of the latter, not one has the setiferous impressions on the 
ninth elytral interstice continued up to the base (as in S. wrata), nor more than one or 
two (at most and oftener than not obsolete) on the seventh near the apex. The setiferous 
impressions on the apical third are not preceded, as in most examples of S. mexicana, 
by a slight elevation, and the striz are not so shallowly punctured ; the anterior angles 
of the thorax are also less prominent. The antenne are similarly formed in both 
species. Not so brilliantly metallic as S. @neipennis (the elytra not cupreous at the 
sides), and the setiferous impressions on the elytra more numerous and more 
scattered. 
34. Statira mexicana. (Tab. Il. fig. 1, ¢.) 
Moderately elongate, shining, black or nigro-eneous, the elytra eneous or greenish-eneous. Head densely 
and rugulosely, or closely and finely, or sparingly and minutely, punctured, the eyes not very large ; 
antenne more or less ferruginous, moderately long, sometimes darker towards the base—the apical joint 
