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and rather closely punctured, a longitudinal space on the middle of the disc smooth; elytra with shallow 
intrahumeral depression, moderately long, finely punctate-striate, the punctures closely packed and deep, 
the interstices flat at the base, rather convex at the apex, and very closely and confusedly punctured 
throughout, the apices obtuse ; beneath thickly punctured, testaceous, the venter piceous; legs compara- 
tively slender, thickly clothed on all sides with rather long erect hairs, testaceous, the knees stained with 
_ piceous. 
Length 6 millim.; breadth 14 millim. (¢.) 
Hab. Mexico, Tapachula in Chiapas (/ége). 
A single male example, captured on the lower part of the South Mexican Pacific slope. 
This species is closely allied to S. corrosa, but may be identified by its less shining 
surface and the very thickly and more distinctly punctured elytral interstices. From 
S. horrida the much more finely punctured elytral strie (the punctures similar in shape 
throughout and not strongly transverse on the basal half) sufficiently distinguish it. 
56. Statira brevipilis. 
Elongate, narrow, nigro-eneous, shining, the elytra dark cyaneous (in one example piceous-brown with a 
cyaneous lustre), the surface clothed with short erect hairs. Head very coarsely punctured, the eyes 
small; antennee piceous, very stout, rather long—the apical joint in the male longer, in the female shorter, 
than joints 8-10 united; prothorax longer than broad, cylindrical, the sides immarginate, only a little 
rounded anteriorly, and feebly constricted behind, the hind angles moderately prominent, the basal margin 
very little raised, the surface very coarsely and deeply punctured, the punctures more scattered on the 
disc; elytra with rather shallow intrahumeral depression, long, coarsely and deeply punctate-striate 
throughout, the interstices almost flat and coarsely and thickly punctured (two or three very irregular 
rows on each), the punctures finer than those of the strie and rather shallow, the apices obtuse; beneath 
black or piceous, shining, very sparsely and coarsely punctured, the punctures each bearing a short sub- 
erect hair; legs piceous or piceo-ferruginous, roughly punctured, and somewhat thickly clothed with rather 
long suberect hairs. 
Length 74-84 millim.; breadth 17-2} millim. (¢ Q.) 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (fége). 
Four examples, two of each sex. A narrow, elongate species, blackish-eeneous in 
colour and shining; the elytra dark cyaneous, coarsely punctate-striate, and with the 
interstices coarsely and thickly punctured, the punctures each bearing a short erect 
hair; the head and thorax very coarsely punctured, the latter immarginate at the sides ; 
the eyes small; and the legs roughly punctured and pilose. 
57. Statira villosa. 
Closely allied to S. brevipilis and differing as follows :—The antenne not so stout ; the prothorax more sparsely 
and still more irregularly punctured ; the elytra dark cyaneous, the interstices each with a very irregular 
row of coarse (but shallow) closely placed punctures, the punctures each bearing a moderately long erect 
hair ; the femora and tibie thickly clothed with long erect hairs. 
Length 9 millim.; breadth 27 millim. ( 9.) 
Hab. Muxico, Iguala in Guerrero (Hoge). 
A single female example. S. villosa differs from S. brevipilis thus:—The body and 
legs are clothed with much longer hairs, and the elytral interstices (instead of being 
