188 Mr. G, C. Champion on 



19. Statira catenata. (Plate XII, figs. 9, <$; ^a. b, 

 penis-sheath, (J.) 



$. Statira catenata, Makl., Act. Soc. Fenn. vii, p. 148 (1862). 

 ^. Statira plumicomis, Deyr. in litt. 



(J. Antennae thickened, joint 1 very stout, 2 quite short, 8-10 

 rapidly decreasing in length, 9 and 10 dentate at the inner apical 

 angle, 11 very elongate, equalling 7-10 united, 3-10 wth a dense 

 fringe of long hairs within; anterior femora strongly incrassate, 

 ciliate at the base beneath; anterior tibiae broadly, angularly 

 explanate towards the apex within; intermediate femora ciliate 

 beneath ; intermediate tibiae hollowed along their inner face ; 

 posterior femora very stout, curved, excavate and densely ciliate 

 beneath, angularly dilated before the apex ; posterior tibiae sinuously 

 bowed, broadly widened in their outer half, excavate and pubescent 

 w ithin, and furnished with a dense brush of very long hairs at about 

 the middle of their upper inner edge; metastemum and abdomen 

 thickly clothed with long hairs down the middle ; penis-sheath ^^ 

 stout, asj'mmetric, broadly, obliquely, subangularly dilated at the 

 apex, serrulate along the upper edge. 



$. Antennae, slender, simple, joint 11 nearly or quite equalling 

 8-10 united. 



Hab. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catharina {Fry), 

 Constancia (J. Gray and //. Clark, Jan. 1857), State of San 

 Paulo {Gounelle), Minas Geraes (Mus. Brit.). 



Nine specimens seen, including three males. The extra- 

 ordinary combination of characters in the structure or 

 clothing of the legs, antennae and ventral surface in this 

 sex makes S. catenata easily recognisable, at least in the 

 (^; the $, however, is very like that of S. genjcidata, IMakl., 

 differing from it in having the alternate elytral interstices 

 a little broader, 5 and 7 with more numerous setigerous 

 impressions. The amount of catenulation of these inter- 

 stices is somewhat variable in both insects. 



20. Statira viridipennis. (Plate XII, figs. 10, 10a, 

 aedeagus, ^.) 



Statira viridipennis, Lep. et Serv., Encvcl. Meth., Ins. x, 

 p. 480 (1827) ; Makl., Act. Soc. Fenn. vii, p. 149 (1862). 



1° The conjoined lateral lobes of the tegmen, sec. Sharp. 



