62 HETEROMERA. 
the maxille rather narrow; mandibles bifid at the apex; eyes convex, rather small; head-(larger in 
S. singularis) extended on each side behind the eyes, abruptly narrowed into a neck behind; antenne 
long and stout, joints 3-10 differing very little in length or breadth (7 and 8:the longest) and but little 
widened outwardly, 11 very elongate, especially in the male; prothorax cylindrical ; elytra, at least in 
the male, with an oblong perfectly opaque patch on each side at or beyond tbe middle; anterior coxe 
moderately exserted, the prosternum raised between them to the level of the coxe ; metasternal episterna 
quite flat (S. cyanipennis), or (S. singularis) depressed within the inner edge anteriorly ; anterior femora 
and tibie in the male more or less abnormal and sulcate, the tibiee inwardly or outwardly curved ; 
tibial spurs short or indistinct. 
This genus is proposed to include Statira cyanipennis, Makl. (from Mexico, but now 
known to extend southwards to Chiriqui), and an allied species from the State of 
Panama; a third, also from the State of Panama, of which we have only a single 
mutilated female example, is also provisionally referred to it; and S. thoracica, Makl., 
from Brazil, and S. sculpta, Kirsch, from Peru, may possibly have to be included 
in it. The very pronounced sexual characters in the anterior legs in the male, 
the very broad apical joint of the labial palpi, and the opaque patch on each side 
of the elytra in one or both sexes, are characters foreign to the very large number 
of species (about 150) of Statira known to me. The male of S. cyanipennis (and 
apparently of S. violaceus also) possesses a very complicated cedeagal structure, the 
genus differing greatly from Statira in this respect. ‘The above-mentioned characters 
are chiefly taken from S. cyanipennis. 
* Eyes rather small ; size small. 
a. Head and prothorax red, the elytra violaceous. 
1. Sphragidophorus cyanipennis. (Tab. III. figg. 17, 3; 17a, labium; 
176, maxilla and maxillary palpus; 17 c, mandible.) 
Statira cyanipennis, Makl. Act. Soc. Fenn. vii. p. 591 & x. p. 647! +. 
Hab. Mexico ', Cordova (Sallé) ; GuatumaLa, Panzos (Champion) ; Panama, Bugaba, 
Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
This is a species of small size, with the head and thorax red and the elytra cyaneous 
or violaceous and subopaque. ‘The antenne are black (the basal joint sometimes red), 
long and stout; the apical joint in the male is longer, in the female shorter than, the 
three preceding joints united. The head and thorax have widely scattered coarse 
punctures, between which on the thorax are a few finer impressions; the thorax is 
immarginate at the sides; the eyes are quite small and distant from the base of the 
head ; the elytra are rather coarsely punctate-striate, and have the interstices almost 
flat at the base and rather convex towards the apex, the first, third, and fifth from the 
T Maklin subsequently (ify, Finsk. Soc. xxi. p. 116) described another species of Statira, from Colombia, 
under the name of cyanipennis: this might be renamed colombica. | 
