220 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



Hah. Brazil, Caraca {P. Germain). 



One example. An insect very like S. versicolor, with 

 wholly black legs and antennae, a less deeply canaliculate 

 prothorax, a relatively shorter eleventh antennal joint in 

 ^, and brilliant metallic green elytra. Compared with 

 S. sericea, the elytra are more elongate, the head has a 

 single fovea between the eyes, and the legs and antennae 

 are black. The dilated anterior tarsi are obviously indica- 

 tive of the male sex. S. elegans, Makl. (No. 87), is a 

 somewhat similar differently-coloured form. 



64. Statira versicolor, n. sp. 



cj. Elongate, narrow, depressed, shining; piceo-castaneous, the 

 head and prothorax with a faint aeneous lustre; the elytra in the 

 example selected as type iijetallic blue-green in the sutural region, 

 the colour changing to golden exterior to this, and to cupreous along 

 the sides and at the apex, in a second specimen aeneo -cupreous; 

 the head and elytra with a few long, erect, bristly hairs. Head 

 large, a little wider than the prothorax, sparsely, minutely punctate, 

 flattened, punctulate, and laterally impressed between the eyes, 

 the latter large and rather distant ; antennae slender, long, joint 1 1 

 a little longer than 8-10 united. Prothorax longer than broad, 

 oblongo -cordate, constricted before the prominent basal margin; 

 sparsely, very minutely punctate, the interspaces alutaceous, the 

 disc strongly, interruptedly canaliculate. Elytra long, twice as 

 wide as the prothorax, subparallel in their basal half, the intra- 

 humeral depression oblong, deep; closely, finelj- punctato-striate, 

 the interstices flat on the disc, convex at the apex, 3 with about 

 four widely separated setigerous impressions on the apical half, 

 1 and 9 also with a single impression near the tip. Legs long, 

 slender, the anterior pair with the femora moderately clavate 

 and the tibiae feebly curved. 



Length 7f-9, breadth 2§-2| mm. 



Hab. Brazil {Mus. Oxen.), Rio de Janeiro {Fry : type). 



Two males, one of them immature, with the elytra 

 almost uniformly aeneo-cupreous and the legs testaceous. 

 Very near S. sericea, the elytra partly cupreous, the pro- 

 thorax more deeply canaliculate, the head a little broader, 

 the terminal joint of the antenna longer. The strongly 

 canaliculate prothorax, the more metallic elytra, with fewer 

 setigerous impressions (those on the third interstice not 

 extending beyond the middle anteriorly), and the absence 



