192 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



(as in S. catenata), and the posterior tibiae abruptly, bisi- 

 nuately twisted, pilose, and dilated, in the q, the tibiae 

 more strongly sinuate and more hairy than in the same 

 sex of S. arcuatipes and S. fuscitarsis, these latter more- 

 over wanting the pilosity down the middle of the abdomen , 

 The penis-sheath is asymmetric, and shaped somewhat as 

 in S. viridi'pennis and its allies. 



24. Statira arcuatipes. (Plate XII, figs. 14, (^; 14a, 

 aedeagus, ^.) 



^. Statira arcuatipes, Pic, Melanges exot.-entom. iv, p. 14 

 (Sept. 1912). 



Very elongate, rather narrow, the head and prothorax dull, the 

 rest of the upper surface moderately shining; piceous or nigro- 

 piceous, the elytra bluish-green or green, sometimes with cupreous 

 reflections, the antennae often in part ferruginous ; the elytra with 

 a few, long, bristly hairs. Head almost smooth, feebly grooved 

 between the eyes, the latter very large and somewhat narrowly 

 separated; antennae long, slender, shorter in $, joint 11 in (^ equal- 

 ling 6-10, in $ about 8-10, united. Prothorax oblongo-cordate, 

 rather sparsely, minutely punctulate. Elytra long, subparallel in 

 their basal half in c^ ; closely, finely punctato-striate, the interstices 

 almost flat on the disc, 3 and 5 tuberculato-catenate towards the 

 apex, 3, 5, and 7 (those on 7 present in one (J-speoimen only) with 

 several widely scattered setigerous impressions, and 9 with three 

 impressions near the tip. 



(J. Intermediate femora gradually widened to near the apex, and 

 abruptly hollowed thence to the tip, the angle thus formed clothed 

 with short hairs externally ; posterior femora towards the apex very 

 broadly, arcuately dilated, and deeply sulcate beneath, glabrous ; 

 posterior tibiae sinuously twisted, broadly dilated, hollowed and 

 pubescent within ; penis-sheath symmetric, long, compressed, the tip 

 triangularly dilated as seen from above, hooked beneath, the tube in 

 which it is enclosed produced into a long spiniform process on each 

 side. 



Var. Femora and tibiae, except at their apices, testaceous. (cJ$.) 



Length 10-1 1 1, breadth 2f-3^ mm. (^^.) 



Hab. Bkazil. State of San Paulo [type], Petropolis (J. Gray 

 and H. Clark, Feb. 1857), Rio de Janeiro (Fry). 



Seven males in the Fry collection, including two of the 

 variety with pallid femora and tibiae, are undoubtedly 

 referable to S. arcuatipes, Pic; and three females with 



