28 HETEROMERA. 
more elongate shape, longer antenne, and the elytral interstices obsoletely punctured 
towards the apex (approaching S. punctipennis) are sufficient to distinguish it. In one 
abnormal example the thorax is sinuate at the sides in front, and the elytra are not 
punctured at the apex, and have the setiferous impressions partly obliterated. 
There is an example of this species in Mr. F. Bates’s collection, from that of Dejean, 
labelled Statira megatoma *, and as from the United States ; this locality is doubtless 
erroneous. 
36. Statira punctipennis. 
Elongate, moderately shining, varying in colour from piceous to obscure reddish-brown ; the elytra with a 
more or less distinct eencous lustre, more shining at the apex, and usually darker than the prothorax. 
Head sparsely and finely punctured, and often shallowly foveate in the centre between the eyes, the 
latter small and very widely separated in both sexes; antenne piceo-ferruginous or ferruginous, mode- 
rately stout—the apical joint in the male rather shorter than joints 7-10, in the female 8-10, united ; pro- 
thorax comparatively broad, transverse, the sides sharply margined from the base to the apex, a little 
rounded anteriorly (sometimes almost straight in front), and strongly constricted behind, the hind angles 
acute, the basal margin sharply raised, and at the sides deeply grooved within, the disc shallowly trans- 
versely depressed in the middle behind, the surface finely, very irregularly, and somewhat closely punctured 
(often subscabrous or aciculate in places between the punctures) ; elytra with long and deep intrahumeral 
depression, long, finely and deeply punctate-striate, the punctures crowded and transverse in shape from 
the base to about the middle, and finer and shallower towards the apex, the interstices flat or feebly 
convex, thickly and shallowly, but distinctly, punctured (the punctures deeper towards the apex), the first 
with two or three (at the apex), the third and fifth each with one or two (widely separated, and between 
the middle and apex), the seventh with one (at the shoulder), and the ninth with two or three (near the 
apex), fine shallow setiferous punctures, the apices obtuse; beneath obscure reddish-brown, shining ; 
legs varying in colour from piceous-brown to piceo-testaceous, rather stout. 
Length 9-10 millim. ; breadth (at shoulders) 23-27 millim. (d ¢ -) 
Hab. Guatemata, Capetillo (Champion). 
Numerous examples. In this species the head is finely and sparsely punctured ; the 
eyes are small and very widely separated ; the thorax is transverse, broad, and sharply 
margined at the sides; and the elytra are long, rather deeply striate (the punctures 
transverse in shape), and have the interstices thickly punctured (very shallowly so to 
beyond the middle, and more deeply so at the apex), the first, third, fifth, and ninth each 
with two or three very shallow setiferous impressions. The thorax varies a good deal 
in sculpture, and the setiferous elytral impressions are sometimes obsolete. S. puncti- 
pennis is closely allied to S. enco-tincta, but may be distinguished by its very widely 
separated eyes, broader and more sharply margined thorax, punctured elytral interstices, 
fewer setiferous impressions, &c. | 
37. Statira testacea. 
Very elongate, opaque, reddish-testaceous, the prothorax sometimes suffused with piceous ; the elytra shining, 
obscure testaceous, sometimes with a faint «neous lustre. Head densely and roughly punctured ; the 
* This name appears in Dejean’s Catalogue (8rd edit. p. 236), with the locality ‘‘ Amer.-Bor.” 
