New and little-known Lagriidae. 179 



Hah. Ecuador, Paramba [Rosenberg). 



One specimen. The ciliate anterior femora and toothed 

 anterior tibiae (not necessarily (^-characters) bring this 

 species near certain Central American forms, S. glabrata, 

 Makl. and S. denticulata, Champ., placed by me at the 

 head of the genus in the arrangement adopted in the 

 " Biologia." Compared with S. tuherculata, Makl., the 

 antennae are longer and more slender, the inter-ocular 

 fovea is smaller, the prothorax is larger and smoother, and 

 the first elytral interstice is tuberculate (instead of un- 

 armed) at the apex. The general shape is like that of S. 

 laficoUis, Makl. 



7. Statira gemmifer. (Plate XII, fig. 4, posterior leg, (^.) 

 Statira gemmifer, Makl., Act. Soc. Fenn. vii, p. 147 (1862). 



Posterior femora in each sex with a truncate, exteriorly toothed, 

 prominence at tlie base, and a small triangular tooth at about the 

 basal fourth, beneath (fig. 4) ; antennal joint 11 in (5* about equalling 

 7-10, in $ 8-10 united ; anterior tarsi slightly widened in cj, all the 

 tarsi and tibiae a little more hairy in o than in $ ; eyes distinctly 

 more approximate in (J than in $. 



Hah. Brazil {Mus. Brit., Mus. Oxon.), Rio de Janeiro 

 (Fry), Constancia (J. Gray and H. Clark, Jan. 1857), Minas 

 Geraes {Mus. Brit.), Ilha Santo Amaro near Santos {G. E. 

 Bryant : 23. iv. '12). 



This is perhaps the finest known species of the genus. 

 It has very elongate, sharply acuminate, translucent, 

 aeneous elytra, with the alternate interstices closely 

 seriato-tuberculate and catenulate throughout ; the pro- 

 thorax closely punctulate ; the legs very elongate, slender, 

 the posterior femora feebly bidentate near the base beneath 

 in both sexes; the tarsi and tibiae hairy; the antennae 

 rather slender and infuscate. S. gemmifer may be the 

 S. regina, Lac, of Dejean's catalogue, and his S. gemmata 

 a var. of S. geniculata, Makl.?. Twelve specimens seen, 

 including three males. The penis-sheath, so far as visible 

 without dissection, appears to be symmetric. 



8. Statira agroides. (Plate XII, fig. 5, aedeagus, in profile, ^.) 



Statira agroides, Lep. et Serv., Encycl. Meth., Ins. X. p. 480 

 (1827); Makl., Act. Soc. Fenn. vii, p. 148 (1862). 



