New and Uttle-hioivn Lagriidae. 193 



similar!}^ coloured legs, two of them from Petropolis, must 

 also belong here. These insects were labelled by Fry as 

 the sexes of the same species. The variety nearly agrees 

 with the description of S.fuscitarsis, Makl., cf. infra. 



25. Statira fuscitarsis. (Plate XIT, fig. 15, posterior leg, ^.) 



o. Statira fuscitarsis, Makl., Act. Soc. Fenn. x, p. 638 

 (1875). 



Very like S. arcuatipes, Pic, the head and prothorax nigro-piceous, 

 the elytra brilliant metallic green or brassy-green, the femora (except 

 at the apex in one example, $) and tibiae clear rufo-testaceous (cJ) 

 or testaceous ($) ; the apical antennal joint of ^ still more elongate, 

 equalling 5-10 united; the eyes as large as in that species; the 

 elytral interstices 3 and 5 with from three to five widely separated 

 setigerous impressions dowTi the disc and both tuberculato-catenate 

 on the apical declivity; the intermediate and posterior femora, and 

 the posterior tibiae, shaped exactly as in the ^ of 8. araiatipes, 

 except that the posterior tibiae (fig. 15) bear a dense brush of hairs 

 at about the middle of the concave inner face; the penis-sheath (so 

 far as visible) shaped as in S. arcuatipes. 



Hah. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro {Fry, (^$), Petropolis 

 {Dr. Sahlberg : type). 



A pair from the Fry collection are provisionally referred 

 to this species, the type of which was captured at Petropolis. 

 The male of S. catenata has a somewhat similar brush of 

 much longer hairs on the posterior tibiae. S.fuscitarsis is 

 said to have four additional setigerous impressions on the 

 seventh elytral interstice, and those on the disc large, but 

 too much importance need not be placed on these characters. 

 Maklin ignored, or overlooked, the marked sexual peculiari- 

 ties of many of these insects, and it is therefore impossible 

 to certainly identify some of his Statirae from the descrip- 

 tions alone. 



26. Statira tibialis. 



(^. Statira tibialis. Pic, Melanges exot.-entom. iv, p. 14 

 (Sept. 1912). 



(J. Antennae rufo-testaceous, with joint 11 equalling 6-10 united; 

 intermediate femora gradually widened to near the apex, and hol- 

 lowed thence to the tip, concave along their lower face, glabrous ; 

 posterior femora sulcate beneath, gradually, arcuately dilated on 



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