32 HETEROMERA. 
One male example only, captured on the margin of the Lake of Atitlan. & nodulosa 
in its general shape and punctured alternate elytral interstices approaches S. ciliata; 
but differs in its finely and closely punctured head, very much larger eyes, very long 
apical joint to the antenne, sharp anterior angles of the thorax, the punctures of the 
alternate elytral interstices not preceded bya tubercle, &c. ‘The sharp and prominent 
anterior angles of the thorax and the tuberculate elytra are characteristic of S. nodulosa. 
\ 48, Statira tuberculifera, (Tab. I. fig. 5, 2.) 
\Very elongate, rather depressed, dull piceous-black, the elytra seneous and slightly shining. Head finely and 
rather thickly punctured ; eyes ( 2) very large; antennee ( 9 ) ferruginous, long, the apical joint not quite 
so long as joints 7-10 united; prothorax as long as broad, the sides very distinctly margined from the 
base to the apex, a little rounded about the middle, strongly constricted behind, and sinuate-emarginate 
in front, the anterior angles sharply defined and projecting laterally, the hind angles acute and very 
prominent, the basal margin much raised, the disc a little flattened in the middle behind, the surface 
shallowly, minutely, and somewhat thickly punctured; elytra with long intrahumeral depression, very 
elongate, widest beyond the middle, finely punctate-striate, the punctures closely placed, the interstices flat 
towards the base, slightly convex towards the sides and apex, the first, third, fifth, seventh, and’. ninth 
each with a row of closely placed setiferous punctures, the setiferous punctures (except at the base) each 
preceded by a very distinct conical elevation, and the elevations themselves becoming elongate and strongly 
raised towards the sides and apex, those on the seventh interstice confluent at the base and forming a 
sharp longitudinal keel at the shoulder, the apices sharply pointed ; beneath piceous-black, smooth, very 
shining ; legs long, rather thickly punctured, the femora sparsely pubescent, the tibiae somewhat densely 
clothed with short hairs within. 
Length 14 millim.; breadth 33 millim. ( 2.) 
Hab. GuateMata, Coban (Conradt). 
A single female example. S. tuberculifera is closely allied to 8. nodulosa, but may 
easily be distinguished by the tubercles of the elytra being much more raised and also 
larger in size, those on the seventh interstice forming a sharp keel at the shoulder; the 
apices of the elytra are also more pointed. 
44, Statira conspicillata. (Tab. II. fig. 6,¢; 7, var.) 
Statira conspicillata, Mikl. Act. Soc. Fenn. vii. p. 589’. 
Hab. Mexico’, Cordova (Sallé), Jalapa, Tapachula in Chiapas (Hége), Atoyac, 
Teapa (H. H. Smith); British Honpuras, R. Hondo (Llancaneauz) ; GUATEMALA, 
Chacoj, Senahu, Zapote, Capetillo, Pantaleon, El Tumbador (Champion); Nicaracua 
(Sailé), Chontales (Janson) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 feet (Champion). 
This is one of the commonest and most widely distributed species of Statira inhabiting 
Central America; it may be known by its small size, shining surface, and reddish-testa- 
ceous colour, the elytra each with two large oblong yellowish spots, the spots each sur- 
rounded by a fuscous or piceous line. In a long series of examples (about 100) the insect 
shows a good deal of variation in the elytral markings:—The form described by Maklin 
has the two oblong spots on each elytron narrowly edged with fuscous (the insect thus 
coloured almost exactly resembling certain species of Huproctus, a genus of Carabide 
