178 Mr. G. C. Champion 07i 



$. Antennae shorter, joints 4-10 decreasing in length, 11 less 

 elongate. 



Var. Elytra with two or three dark lines on the disc extending 

 downward from the base. 



Hab. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Petropolis, Constancia, 

 Tijuca. 



A reddish-brown, shining, rather convex insect, usually 

 with the suture or two or three lines on the disc infuscate, 

 these markings sometimes wanting; the anterior femora 

 greatly thickened from near the base, and with the narrow 

 basal portion armed with a long, curved spine (not noticed 

 by Maklin) ; the anterior tibiae slightly hollowed before 

 the apex beneath ; the elytral interstices 3, 5, and 9 with 

 a few widely separated setigerous punctures. The aedeagus 

 of the male is long and slender, tapering towards the tip. 

 S. presuturalis. Pic (No. 81, infra), from the same region, is 

 a very similar form, but it wants the anterior femoral spine. 



Section B 

 6. Statira dentigera, n. sp. 



Elongate, broad, widened posteriorly, shining; rufo-castaneous, 

 the palpi piceous, the elytra aeneo-piceous, the latter with scattered, 

 long, erect, bristly hairs. Head rather small, not so broad as the 

 pro thorax, almost smooth, foveate in the middle between the 

 eyes, the latter very large, somewhat distant; antennae long, 

 slender, joint 11 equalling 8-10 united. Pro thorax slightly longer 

 than broad, rounded at the sides, strongly constricted before the 

 prominent basal margin; sparsely, minutely punctate. Elytra 

 long, broad, widening to the middle, and there twice as broad as 

 the prothorax, arcuately narrowed posteriorly, and acuminate at 

 the apex; closely, finely punctato -striate, the interstices broad, flat 

 on the anterior half of the disc, 3, 5, 7, and 9 with a series of rather 

 large setigerous impressions extending throughout their length, 

 the impressions (except those towards the base) each preceded by a 

 rather prominent tubercle, the tubercles gradually becoming longer, 

 cariniform, and catenulate towards the sides and apex, the first 

 (sutural) interstice also with five impressions near the tip. Legs 

 [posterior pair wanting] rather stout; anterior femora strongly 

 clavate, sulcate along their outer half beneath, and also finely ciliate ; 

 tibiae pilose within, the anterior pair armed witli a sharji triangular 

 tooth at one-third from the tip. 



Length 15, breadth 5 mm. (cj ?) 



