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(j*. Antennae a little thicker than in $, joint 1 very stout, 10 

 dentate at the apex within, 11 nearly equalling 7-10 united, 3-10 

 thickly pilose on their inner side ; anterior femora very stout ; 

 anterior tibiae angularly explanate towards the apex within ; inter- 

 mediate tibiae hollowed along their inner face; posterior femora 

 closely ciliate along their basal half beneath; posterior tibiae 

 excavate within, widened outwards, and broadly, shallowly emargin- 

 ate at about the middle, appearing sinuate on their inner edge ; 

 metasternum and abdomen thickly pilose do\Mi the centre, the fifth 

 segment broadly depressed in the middle posteriorly. 



Aedeagus (figs. 10, 10a) : basal piece stout, curved, boat-shaped ; 

 penis-sheath asymmetric, twisted, obliquely dilated outwards into 

 an elongate, spoon-shaped piece, which is angulate on the right side 

 at some distance before the tip. 



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

 {Fry), Constancia and Tijuca (J. Gray and H. Clark, 

 Jan. 1857). 



The long series of this species before me vary in colour 

 from piceous to rufo-testaceous ; the prothorax and an- 

 tennae (joints 1 and 2 excepted) are usually red; the 

 elytra with a translucent green, aeneous or cupreous lustre ; 

 the legs in most of the specimens testaceous or rufo- 

 testaceous, the knees and tarsi sometimes infuscate. The 

 absence of the setigerous impressions along the seventh 

 elytral interstice separates both sexes of S. viridipennis 

 from the very closely allied S. geniculata, Makl. 



21. Statira geniculata. (Plate XII, figs. 11, 11a, aedeagus, ^.) 



'i.Statyra gemmata, Dej. Cat., 3rd edit., p. 236 (1837). 

 Statira geniculata, Makl., Act. Soc. Fenn. vii, p. 150 

 (1862). 



(J. Antennae very long and slender, joint 1 scarcely stouter than 

 in 9, 10 angulate at the imier apical angle, 11 nearly equalling 8-10 

 united ; eyes extremely large, subcontiguous ; anterior femora very 

 stout, almost glabrous; posterior femora ciliate beneath; inter- 

 mediate and posterior tibiae closely pilose within, the latter simple ; 

 metasternum and abdomen thickly clothed dowTi the middle with 

 long, erect, fulvous hairs, the fifth segment broadly depressed in the 

 centre posteriorly. Aedeagus (figs. 11, 11a):' basal piece long, 

 curved; penis-sheath elongate, broad, twisted, deeply grooved, 

 the apical portion fiddle-shaped. 



