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raised basal margin terminating in a stout tubercle on each side; 

 the surface with a few, widely scattered, minute punctures. Elytra 

 long, gradually widening to the middle, acuminate posteriorly, the 

 apices mucronate; closely, finely punctato -striate, the striae 

 sinuate on the disc, the interstices 1, 3, 5 slightly widened and each 

 with a series of somewhat closely placed, subquadrate, setigerous 

 impressions extending throughout their length, 7 with a series of 

 similar impressions down the apical half, and 9 with four others 

 towards the tip, the interspaces between them longitudinally raised 

 on the disc and tuberculate on the apical declivity. Legs very long, 

 simple. 



Length 12, breadth SJ mm. ($ ?) 



Hah. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro {Fry). 



One specimen. A close ally of S. agroides, L. and S. 

 (= armata, Makl.), and with the elytra mucronate at the 

 tip and very similarly sculptured, differing from that 

 insect in its oblong, narrow head, with shallow longitudinal 

 inter-ocular groove, the less prominent eyes, and the 

 laterally tuberculate basal margin of the prothorax. The 

 catenulate first (sutural) elytral interstice and mucronate 

 apex separate S. longiceps from S. catenata, meleagris, 

 and others. 



10. Statira verrucosa, n. sp. 



Very elongate, widened posteriorly, moderately shining; nigro- 

 piceous, the elytra with a faint brassy lustre ; the elytra with long, 

 erect bristly hairs, the antennae, tibiae, and tarsi pilose. Head long, 

 narrow, almost smooth, shallowly depressed in the middle between 

 the eyes, the latter large, moderately distant; antennae long, 

 slender, joint 11 in c? about equalling 7-10, in $ 8-10, united. 

 Prothorax long, narrow, the sides obliquely converging from about 

 the middle forward, and constricted before the raised basal margin ; 

 closely, finely punctate, depressed in the centre at the base and 

 longitudinally excavate behind the anterior margin. Elytra very 

 long, widening to beyond the middle and there about three times 

 the breadth of the prothorax, mucronate at the tip ; closely, rather 

 finely, crenato-striate throughout, the striae sinuate and arranged 

 in pairs, the alternate interstices each with a series of approximate 

 oblong, flattened spiculae, which become more prominent and 

 cariniform towards the sides and apex. Legs very long. 



Length 13, breadth nearly 4 mm. (c?$.) 



Hab. Upper Amazons, Ega {H. W. Bates). 



