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Hab. Amazons, Santarem {H. W. Bates). 



One male. A robust, elongate, shining, castaneous 

 insect, with a broad brilliant metallic green submarginal 

 stripe on each elytron, the antennae very stout, with the 

 outer joints transverse and the terminal one as long as the 

 preceding six united, the prothorax subcylindrical, the 

 head rather narrow. It is just possible that S. viridivittata 

 may be a male of the Colombian S. validicornis, Makl. 

 (described as subcylindrical, with a narrow green sub- 

 marginal stripe on the elytra, and very stout antennae, 

 the apical joint equalling 8-10 united) ; but without com- 

 parison of the types, it would be unsafe to refer insects 

 from such distant localities to one species. The general 

 facies is not unlike that of S. nresuturalis. Pic. 



71. Statira lateralis. 



Statira lateralis, Makl., Ofv. Finska Vet.-Soc. Forh., xx, p. 

 357 (1878). 



$. Elongate, depressed, widened posteriorly, shining ; testaceous, 

 the eyes black, the elytra with a faint, indeterminate, metallic green 

 marginal stripe extending from the base to about two -thirds of their 

 length and curving inwards to the middle of the disc posteriorly; 

 the elytra with a few bristly hairs near the apex. Head large, 

 sparsely, minutely punctate, with a shallow arcuate impression 

 between the eyes, the latter large, well-separated ; antennae slender, 

 rather short, joint 11 equalling 8-10 united. Prothorax about as 

 wide as the head, as long as broad, cordate, dilated at the base, the 

 basal margin prominent; closely, finely, conspicuously punctate. 

 Elytra elongate, twice as broad as the prothorax, widening to beyond 

 the middle, and somewhat acuminate at the apex; closely, finely 

 punctato-striate, the interstices becoming convex towards the apex, 

 3 only with one or two setigerous impressions near the tij). 



Length 9, breadth 3 mm. 



Hab. Colombia [type], Ibague {Mus. Brit.). 



One example, labelled with the M.S. name S. scajpulaHs, 

 Germ. This insect agrees with Maklin's diagnosis of 

 S. lateralis, but as there are allied forms in Brazil, it is 

 advisable to redescribe the single sj)ecimen before me. S. 

 aeneotincta, Champ., from Mexico and Guatemala, is of 

 about the same size and shape. 



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