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31 . Statira laticollis. 



?. Statira laticollis, Makl., Act. Soc. Fenn. x, p. 637 (1875). 



Elongate, rather broad, widened posteriorly, moderately shining ; 

 rufo-testaceous, castaneous, or piceous, the elytra with a more or 

 less distinct aeneous lustre, the setigerous impressions towards the 

 apex indicated by darker subquadrate spots in the light-coloured or 

 immature individuals, the elytra with a few erect bristly haits towards 

 the apex. Head closely, finely punctate, the eyes large, somewhat 

 distant; antennae long, slender, joint 11 in cj as long as the four or 

 five preceding joints united, in $ about equalling 8-10. Prothorax 

 as wide as the head, not or very little longer than broad, moderately 

 rounded at the sides, constricted before the base, the basal margin 

 very prominent; densely, finely punctate. Elytra long, widening 

 to beyond the middle in both sexes, and there more than twice as 

 broad as the prothorax, the sides arcuately converging thence to the 

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

 flat on the disc, 3 and 9 with four or five, and 5 and 7 with two or 

 three, deep setigerous impressions on the apical half or third, the 

 spaces between them more or less raised longitudinally or tubercu- 

 late. Anterior femora moderately clavate, bare. 



Length 10|-12, breadth M-A^ mm. (cJ$.) 



Hab, Brazil, Santa Rita {Dr. SaJilberg, Aug. 1850 : type), 

 Petropolis, Constancia (J. Graij a,nd H. Clark, Jan. and Feb. 

 1857), Rio de Janeiro, Espirito Santo (Fry). 



This insect is aj^parently not uncommon in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Rio de Janeiro, to judge from the numerous 

 specimens before me. It is extremely probable that 

 S. laticollis is a dark $ of the previously described S. rufa, 

 Makl., and that the latter is an immature S of tlie same 

 species; but as the author makes no comparison between 

 them, the identification is uncertain. The apically tuber- 

 culate, subcatenulate alternate elytral interstices 3, 5, 7, 

 and 9, and the finely impressed striae, are characteristic 

 of the present species. In pallid examples the setigerous 

 impressions are indicated by dark spots, much as in typical 

 S. nigrosparsa, Makl. A specimen ($) before me from Rio 

 de Janeiro, rufous in colour, with testaceous elytra, and a 

 fovea on each side of the disc of the prothorax behind the 

 middle (not mentioned by Miiklin), may be referable to 

 S. rufa, the type of which must be a ^, with a very long 

 eleventh antennal joint. 



