New and little-known Lagriidae. 179 



Hah. Ecuador, Paramba {Rosenberg). 



One specimen. The ciliate anterior femora and toothed 

 anterior tibiae (not necessarily (^-characters) bring this 

 species near certain Central American forms, S. glabrata, 

 Makl. and S. denticiilata, Champ., placed by me at the 

 head of the genus in the arrangement adopted in the 

 " Biologia." Compared with S. tuherculata, Makl., the 

 antennae are longer and more slender, the inter-ocular 

 fovea is smaller, the prothorax is larger and smoother, and 

 the first elytral interstice is tuberculate (instead of un- 

 armed) at the apex. The general shape is like that of S. 

 laticollis, Makl. 



7. Statira gemmifer. (Plate XII, fig. 4, posterior leg, S-) 

 Statim gemmifer, Makl., Act. Soc. Fenn. vii, p. 147 (1862). 



Posterior femora in each sex with a truncate, exteriorly toothed, 

 prominence at the base, and a small triangular tooth at about the 

 basal fourth, beneath (fig. 4) ; antennal joint 11 in cj about equalling 

 7-10, in $ 8-10 united ; anterior tarsi slightly widened in (J, all the 

 tarsi and tibiae a little more hairy in (J than in $ ; eyes distinctly 

 more approximate in ^ than in $. 



Hab. Brazil {Mus. Brit., 3Ius. Oxon.), Rio de Janeiro 

 (Fri/), Constancia (J. Gray and H. Clark, Jan. 1857), Minas 

 Geraes {Mns. Brit.), Ilha Santo Amaro near Santos (6^. E 

 Bryant : 23. iv. '12). 



This is perhaps the finest known species of the genus. 

 It has very elongate, sharply acuminate, translucent, 

 aeneous elytra, with the alternate interstices closely 

 seriato-tuberculate and catenulate throughout; the pro- 

 thorax closely punctulate ; the legs very elongate, slender, 

 the posterior femora feebly bidentate near the base beneath 

 in both sexes; the tarsi and tibiae hairy; the antennae 

 rather slender and infuscate. S. gemmifer may be the 

 S. regina, Lac, of Dejean's catalogue, and his S. gemmata 

 a var. of S. geniculata, Makl. ?. Twelve specimens seen, 

 including three males. The penis-sheath, so far as visible 

 without dissection, appears to be symmetric. 



8. Statira agroides. (Plate XII, fig. 5, aedeagus, in profile, J.) 



Statira agroides, Lep. et Serv., Encycl. Meth., Ins. X. p. 480 

 (1827); Makl., Act. Soc. Fenn. vii, p. 148 (1862). 



