New and little-known Lagriidae. 261 



124. Statira cylindricollis. (Plate XIII, fig. 33, ^.) 



Stalira cyUndricollis, Miikl., Of v. Finska Vet.-Soc. 

 Forh. XX, p. 361 (1878); Fairm., Ann. Soc. Ent., Fr. 

 1892, p. 97. 



Hab. Colombia [type] ; Venezuela. Caracas and San 

 Esteban {Simon), Cumana (ex coll. F. Bates); Trinidad 

 {F. Birch, G. E. Brtjant, coll. Fry). 



A small blackish or rufo-piceous, Anthiciform insect, 

 with a long head and a narrow subcylindrical prothorax, 

 both of which are coarsely, closely punctate ; the antennae 

 rufo-testaceous to about the middle, thickened and infus- 

 cate towards the apex, joint 11 stout and about as long 

 as 9 and 10 united in both sexes ; the eyes small, prominent, 

 distant from the base of the head ; the elytra rather short, 

 comparatively broad, strongly, transversely impressed 

 below the base, deeply punctato-striate, the interstices 

 more or less convex. 3, 5, 7, and 9 with several widely 

 scattered setigerous impressions, 1 also with two or three 

 others near the apex. The peculiarly shaped, elongate 

 head is not mentioned in the descriptions of either of the 

 above-quoted authors. A Trinidad specimen is figured. 



125. Statira anthicoides. 



Statira anthicoides. Kirsch. Berl. Etit. Zcitschr. 1873, 



p. 412. 

 Statira anthicoides, v. staudingeri, Pic, L'Echange, xxviii, 



p. 76 (1912). 



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



A close ally of S. cylindricollis, Makl., with the upper 

 surface more shining; the head larger and broader; the 

 prothorax deeply constricted before the base, and much 

 more finely punctate ; the elytra varying in colour from 

 rufescent, a common, elongate, black patch at the base 

 of the suture excepted, to entirely black (var. staudingeri), 

 the interstices flatter, the striae shallow. ^^ 



126. Statira filicornis, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, slender, widened posteriorly, shining; 

 obscure testaceous, the eyes and elytra black, the basal joints of 

 the antennae f usco-annulate, the tarsi slightly infusoate ; the 



^8 This is the Peruvian insect mentioned in the " Biologia "' 

 (Coleopt. iv, 2, p. 73) under the description of the genus Rhosaces. 



