STATIRA. 4] 
scattered punctures; elytra with rather shallow intrahumeral depression, long; very coarsely and closely 
punctate-striate, the interstices flat, but becoming very convex towards the apex, each with an irregular 
row of coarse setiferous impressions (coarser than the punctures of the striz), the apices obtuse; legs 
piceous, the femora and tibiz clothed with moderately long erect hairs. 
Length 7-93 millim.; breadth 13-24 millim. (9.) 
Hab. Mexico, Ventanas in Durango (Hége). 
Var. a. The two basal joints of the antenne, the prothorax, the under surface (except the venter), and the 
basal two-thirds of the femora and of the tibise reddish-testaceous. (¢-) 
Hab. Mexico, Ventanas in Durango (Hége). 
Var, B. The elytra each with a broad stripe from the shoulder to the apex and the epipleure testaceous; the 
rest asina. (¢.) (Fig. 19.) 
Hab. Mexico, Ventanas in Durango (fdége). 
Three female examples of the type, and a male of each of the varieties. ‘The coarser 
and very much deeper punctuation of the elytra (especially of the interstices) and their 
nigro-eneous colour readily distinguish this species from 8. brevipilis and S. villosa. 
The thorax is more sparsely punctured, the antennz more slender, and the eyes larger 
than in S. brevipilis, and the elytral interstices have one row of coarse setiferous impres- 
sions only. The punctures of the elytral interstices are much coarser and deeper 
(compared with those of the striz) than in 8. véllosa, though they are similarly arranged. 
S. setigera is another closely allied and similarly-coloured species. ‘The var. «resembles 
S. nigripennis, Makl., but differs from it in the punctures of the head and thorax being 
coarser and much more numerous and those of the elytral stria and interstices much 
coarser and deeper. 
60. Statira setigera. 
Elongate, narrow, parallel, piceous-black, shining, the elytra nigro-seneous. Head comparatively broad, with 
some fine widely scattered punctures and three coarse widely separated setiferous impressions on each side 
close to the inner margin of the eyes, the latter ( ¢ ) small, the comparatively broad space behind them 
with numerous coarse setiferous punctures ; antenne moderately long, stout, brownish-piceous—the apical 
joint (¢) the length of joints 8-10 united, 10 much longer than broad; prothorax convex, longer than 
broad, the sides immarginate, arcuate anteriorly, and strongly constricted behind, the hind angles pro- 
minent, the basal margin moderately raised but scarcely grooved within, the surface with a few very 
coarse punctures towards the sides posteriorly and for the rest smooth ; elytra with shallow intrahumeral 
depression, long and parallel, shallowly striate, the strie with closely placed rather coarse punctures 
which become finer towards the apex, the interstices flat, each with an irregular row of closely placed 
moderately coarse setiferous punctures extending from the base to the apex, those on the second and the 
eighth interstice more scattered and much fewer in number, the apices obtuse; beneath brownish-black, 
very shining, the ventral segments each with three or four setiferous punctures only on each side; legs 
rather slender, piceous, the femora and tibiee clothed on all sides with long erect scattered hairs. 
Length 94 millim.; breadth 27 millim. (<¢.) 
Hab. Mexico, Guanajuato (Saléé). 
One male example. In having all the elytral interstices furnished with setiferous 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. IV. Pt. 2, May 1889. GG 
