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shining; legs rather short, bluish- or brassy-black, the femora more or less reddish-testaceous at the base, 
the femora and tibie on all sides thickly clothed with long, erect hairs, the tibie roughly punctured. 
Length 52-64 millim.; breadth 13-13 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Guatemaa, San Gerénimo 3000 feet (Champion). 
Var. a. The elytra each with a somewhat oblique yellow or yellowish-white band extending from a little 
below the shoulder to about one fifth from the apex and there turning off abruptly and obliquely to 
the lateral margin (broadly interrupted posteriorly in one example); the basal two-thirds of the venter 
reddish-testaceous. (Fig. 26.) 
Hab. Guatemaa, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
Var. 8. Above and beneath black, the elytra bluish-black. 
Hab. Guatemata, Chinautla 4100 feet (Salvin). 
Numerous examples of the type-form and of the var. a were collected together by 
myself at San Gerdnimo: the var. 6 only differs in having the prothorax black. 
S. irregularis is closely allied to 8. albofasciata; but, apart from colour-differences, 
it may be at once distinguished by the more coarsely punctured elytra (the punctures | 
not only of the strie, but of the interstices also, much deeper and more distinct and 
continued to the apex) and the (usually) finely canaliculate thorax. The elytra are 
more or less confusedly punctured towards the base. In one example of the var. « the 
longitudinal band of the elytra is broadly interrupted posteriorly. The short, trans- 
versely convex thorax, very small eyes, less elongate shape, &c. distinguish S. irregularis 
and its allies from the other similarly-coloured species inhabiting Central America *. 
68. Statira levicollis. (Tab. III. fig. 1.) 
Moderately elongate, shining; the head brassy-black, the prothorax reddish- or flavo-testaceous, the elytra 
cyaneous or bluish-black, with the suture from a little below the base (or from the middle) to the apex 
yellowish-white. Head, eyes, antenne, and prothorax much as in S. trregularis; the prothorax with, at 
most, a short fine impressed line on the middle of the disc (usually obsolete), and the disc impressed in the 
centre at the base; the elytra with rows of closely packed, rather coarse, punctures placed upon shallow 
strie, the punctures extending to the apex, the interstices flat, slightly convex towards the apex, and each 
with a very irregular row of rather coarse and quite closely placed setiferous punctures (many of which 
are more or less confluent with those of the striz) which extend to the apex, the apices obtuse; ‘beneath 
(the head and prothorax excepted) varying in colour from brassy-black to reddish-testaceous, the venter 
in light-coloured examples piceous at the apex only; legs rather short, roughly punctured, bluish- or 
brassy-black, the femora usually more or less (sometimes broadly) testaceous at the base, the femora and 
tibie thickly clothed on all sides with long, erect hairs. 
Length 53-77 millim.; breadth 13-2 millim. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. Mexico, Colima city, Chilpancingo (/6ge). 
Var. The elytra unicolorous bluish-black. 
Hab. Mexico, Colima city (Hége). 
* In Mr. F. Bates’s collection there is a species of Statira closely allied to this labelled Pedilus sanguinicollis, 
Dej. (Dej. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 237), and as from the United States. This insect is possibly of Mexican origin; but 
in the absence of a more certain locality, it is inadvisable to describe it here. 
