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and prothorax are much broader, the prothorax is trans- 

 verse, and the alternate elytral interstices have each a row 

 of setigerous impressions extending throughout their length, 

 much as in the Central American S. microps, Champ. 



87. Statira elegans. (Plate XII, fig. 19, anterior leg, cJ.) 



Statira elegans, Makl., Act. Soc. Fenn. vii, p. 156 (1862). 

 Var. Statira f estiva, Maid., loc. cit. 



Antennae in ^ with joint 11 about as long as 7-10, in 5 as long 

 as 8-10, united ; anterior femora clavate ; anterior tibiae abruptly 

 narrowed and compressed at the base externally, subangulate at 

 basal third in o. 



Hab. Brazil, Petropolis (•/. 6*ray and H. Clark, Feb. 

 1857), Rio de Janeiro, San Paulo, Espirito Santo {Mus. 

 Brit.). 



A dozen specimens before me from the above-mentioned 

 localities agree with Maklin's description of S. elegans, 

 except that they have the prothorax very finely alutaceous 

 (thus appearing subopaque), instead of shining, as stated 

 by him; but this is probably an error of observation. A 

 rather narrow, moderately elongate form, with the head 

 (the eyes excepted), antennae, prothorax and legs testace- 

 ous or rufo-testaceous, the elytra uniformly green or bluish- 

 green, and the metasternum and abdomen black; the 

 antennae slender; the eyes large, the space between them 

 longitudinally impressed in the middle; the prothorax 

 strongly constricted before the base, canaliculate on the 

 disc, and almost impunctate; the elytra closely, finely 

 punctato-stiiate, with seven or eight setigerous impressions 

 scattered along the third interstice and one or two others 

 at the apex of the ninth ; the anterior tibiae compressed 

 at the base. S.f estiva, to judge from the description, is a 

 variety of S. elegans with the head (except in front) and 

 prothorax piceous. The head in one of the specimens before 

 me is infuscate, but not the prothorax. These insects might 

 easily be mistaken for similarly-coloured Carabids. 



88. Statira distigma, n. sp. (Plate XII, fig. 20, prothorax, ,^.) 



cJ. Moderately elongate, narrow, shining; testaceous, the ej'es 

 and abdomen black, the elytra metallic blue, the apical joint of the 

 antennae and the posterior femora (except at the base) and tibiae 

 slightly infuscate; the elytra with a few long, erect, bristly hairs. 



