New and little-known Lagriidae. 175 



metallic, coarsely punctate -striate elytra, 

 with inconspicuous setigerous impressions, 



and clavate femora No. 130. 



33. Species narrow, elongate, resembling Hae- 

 monia, with extremely large eyes, very 

 long, subserrate antennae, an almost 

 smooth prothorax, and nigro-lineate elytra No. 131. 



Section A. 

 1. Statira costaricensis. (Plate XII, fig. 1, anterior leg, ^.) 



Statyra histrio, Dej. Cat., 3rd. edit., p. 236 (1837). 

 Statira costaricensis, Champ., Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. 

 iv. 2, p. 36 (1889). 



(J. Anterior femora greatly thickened, abruptly narrowed and 

 angulate near the base, the narrow basal portion armed with a long 

 curved spine ; anterior tibiae hollowed beneath, and twisted, before 

 the apex; antennal joint 11 nearly three times as long as 10. 



Var. ? Elytra more coarsely punctate-striate, the punctures on 

 the disc transverse, the interstices slightly convex, the black mark- 

 ings much more extended and subcoalescent, the strongly angulate 

 post basal fascia continued down the second interstice to beyond 

 the middle and nearly joining the median transverse mark, the 

 narrow, oblique subapical fascia reaching the suture and continued 

 along it for a short distance, in front and behind. 



Hab. Costa Eica; Colombia {Miis. Oxon.; Miis. Brit., 

 ex. coll. Laferte). 



Described by me in 1889 from a mutilated example 

 (without anterior legs) from Costa Rica. A specimen from 

 Colombia in the Oxford Museum agrees with this insect, 

 except that the black post-basal mark on the elytra is 

 wanting. The variety?, ex coll. Laferte, from that of 

 Dejean, is labelled Statyra histrio, mihi; it superficially 

 resembles S. vageguttata, Pic, and S. conspicillata, Makl., 

 species wanting the anterior femoral spine. The anterior 

 femora themselves are more abruptly narrowed before the 

 base (appearing angulate) than in the alhed S. suturalis, 

 Makl. 



2. Statira flavosignata, n. sp. (Plate XII, fig. 2, (^.) 



(J. Elongate, depressed, shining, pale reddish -brown, the legs 

 and under surface testaceous ; the elytra each with an oblong mark 

 near the suture at about the middle, two others obliquely placed 



