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Hab. South America 124578. Colombia ^, Bogota; 

 Guiana, Cayenne ^ ; Brazil 1° {Miers, in Miis. Oxon. : var. 

 fiarovitiata), Kio de Janeiro, Espirito Santo, Bahia, Per- 

 nambuco [var. C] ; Amazons, Para, Naiita [var. a] ; 

 Bolivia^. 



The numerous specimens before me connect the named 

 forms of this very variable Slatira. and it is not impossible 

 that *S. {AnihicHs) ruficolUs. Fabr., which has a red head 

 and prothorax, appertains to the same species. Maklin 

 did not identify any of these Fabrician insects amongst the 

 material examined by him ; but there can be little doubt 

 that the three named quoted above refer to one and the 

 same species, that with a red or yellow prothorax being 

 apparently confined to Brazil and Guiana. An example of 

 the var. a (= discoidalis, Pic) from the F. Bates collec- 

 tion (from that of Dejean) is labelled with the MS. name 

 Pedilus sanguinicollis .^"^ The allied S. irregularis and *S. 

 albofasciala, Champ., from Central America, are almost 

 equally variable in colour. S. fidvicoUis is a small, polished, 

 Anthiciform insect, wholly or in part black; the elytra 

 feebly striato-punctate, with an irregular series of numerous 

 larger, rough, setigerous impressions along each of the 

 interstices ; the antennae gradually thickened outwards, 

 the apical joint about as long as the two preceding joints 

 united in both (^ and $; the head transverse, foveate in 

 the middle between the eyes, the latter small ; the tibiae 

 somewhat curved in (^. There is a broken specimen of the 

 var. flavovittdta in the Oxford Museum. These forms 

 should perhaps be removed from the genus Statira. 



119. Statira cyanipennis. 



Statira cyanipennis, Miikl., Ofv. Finska Vet.-Soc. Forh.. 



XX, p. 36 (1878) (nee S. cyanijjennis, Miikl., Act. Soc. 



Fenn. vii, p. 591, and x, p. 647). 

 Statira colombica, Champ., Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. 



iv, 2, p. 62, nota (nom. prov.). 



Hab. Colombia [type], Bogota {ex coll. F. Bates). 



Two specimens from the F. Bates collection agree with 

 Makhn's description, except that they have the abdomen 

 black, instead of dilute fulvous. They are separable from 

 typical S. fidvicollis, F., by the prothorax being more 



" Cf. B. C.-Ara., Coleopt. iv, 2, p. 46. 

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