212 Mr. G. C. Champion ow 



Hob. Venezuela (Dyson), San Estebaii, Colonia Tovar 

 {Si7non : type). 



Olio specimen, acquired by the Musemn in 1847, ao;reeing 

 with the description of S. simonis, Fairm. Near >S. lateralis, 

 Miikl. (as here identified), and separable therefrom by the 

 broader, laterally-grooved prothorax, and the very finely, 

 shallowly striato-punctate elytra, the interstices of which 

 are flat throughout, 3, 5, and 9 with a few large deep 

 setigerous impressions. S. divisa from Venezuela, S. 

 caeruleolinda, from Colombia (No. 59), and S. testacea and 

 S. aeneotincta, from Central America, are also allied forms. 



53. Statira puncticeps, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, narrow, feebly shining; greenish-aeneous, 

 the antennae, legs, and under surface in great part or wholly piceous ; 

 the head and elytra with scattered long, erect, pallid, bristly hairs. 

 Head rather small, somewhat coarsely, closely punctate, smoother 

 in the middle between the eyes, the latter large and well separated ; 

 antennae slender, long, shorter in $, joint 11 in o about equalling 

 7-10, in $ barely as long as 8-10, united. Prothorax oblong, longer 

 than broad, as wide as the head, constricted before the base, the 

 basal margin moderately raised; closely, conspicuously punctate, 

 without trace of median channel, the interspaces alutaceous. 

 Elytra rather long, about twice as broad as the prothorax, sub- 

 parallel at the base; closely, finely, rather deeply punctato-striate, 

 the interstices becoming convex towards the apex, 3 with six or 

 seven, and 5 with four or five, setigerous impressions scattered 

 between the base and apex, 9 also with two impressions near the tip. 

 Anterior femora strongly clavate. 



Var. o. Antennae (joints 1 and 2 excepted) rufo-testaceous. (q.) 



Van /3. Prothorax and abdomen rufo-piceoiis, legs and antennae 

 (joints 1 and 2 excepted) rufo-testaceous. ($.) 



Var. y. Prothorax, a large apical patch on the elytra extending 

 narrowly up the suture to the base, antennae (joints 1 and 2 ex- 

 cepted), legs, and under surface ferruginous or rufo-testaceous. (cJ.) 



Length 7-9, breadth 2-3 mm. (o?.) 



Hob. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro (Fry), Constancia (J. Gray 

 and H. Clark, Jan. 1857 : type). 



Four males and two females, certainly belonging to one 

 variable species, the darker examples ((^$) selected as types. 

 More elongate than the equally variable S. inconstans, 

 Champ., from Central America, the elytra subparallel in 

 male, the head and prothorax closely, conspicuously punc- 



