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9 each with three or four, scattered deep setigerous impressions 

 towards the apex, the spaces between them longitudinally swollen 

 and subcatenulate. 



Length 11|-12, breadth 4 mm. (? ?) 



Hab. Peru, Chanchamayo {ex coll. F. Bates). 



Two examples, sex not ascertained. This is yet another 

 form of S. laticollis, approaching S. caelata, Er., and S. nigra, 

 Makl., these latter ha^dng the ninth elytral interstice inter- 

 ruptedly catenulate for nearly its entire length. The crenate 

 elytral striae in S. peruana are still more deeply impressed 

 at the apex than in the Amazonian S. viriditincta, and the 

 elevations between the setigerous impressions are strongly 

 convex longitudinally, instead of shortly tuberculate as in 

 the last-named insect. 



34. Statira ruflfrons. 



$. Statira rufifrons, Makl., Act. Soc. Femi. vii, p. 152 (1862). 



Elongate, rather narrow, shining; obscure testaceous above, 

 darker beneath, the prothorax aeneous, the rest of the upper 

 surface (the front of the head excepted) with a faint aeneous lustre ; 

 the elytra with a few long, scattered, bristly hairs. Head broad, 

 sparsely, minutely punctate, longitudinally sulcate and foveate in 

 the middle between the eyes, the latter large, moderately distant ; 

 antennae long, slender, joint 11 in cj about equalling 7-10, in $ 8-10, 

 united. Prothorax as wide as, or a little wider than, the head, 

 longer than broad, oblongo-cordate, constricted before the promi- 

 nent basal margin ; closely, finely, conspicuously punctate, the 

 interspaces polished, the disc sometimes with a faint trace of a 

 median channel. Elytra long, twice as broad as the prothorax, 

 gradually widened to the middle, somewhat acuminate posteriorly ; 

 closely, finely punctato-striate, the striae deeply impressed at the 

 apex, the interstices flat on the disc, 3 and 5 each with five or six 

 deep setigerous impressions scattered between the base and apex, 

 and 9 with three or four (and 7 sometimes with one) similar impres- 

 sions near the tip, the interspaces between them raised and sub- 

 catenulate towards the apex. Anterior femora moderately clavate, 

 bare. 



Length 8^^-10, breadth 21^-i} mm. 



Hab. Brazil {Mus. Oxon.), Rio de Janeiro {Fry). 

 _ Six examples agreeing very nearly with Maklin's descrip- 

 tion. _ Smaller and narrower than S. laticollis, Makl., as 

 here identified; the head and prothorax more polished, 



