New and little-known Lagriidae. 231 



Grenadines; Colombia; Venezuela; Trinidad ((?. E. 

 Bryant) ; Beazil, Pernambuco {Fry). 



The long series before me connect the Antillean with the 

 mainland form, Panama examples having conspicuous 

 tubercles on the alternate elytral interstices 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9. 

 One of the Pernambuco specimens is rufo-castaneous with 

 the elytra piceous, and another is rufo-castaneous with the 

 sides of the elytra broadly piceous. 



81. Statira presuturalis. (Plate XII, fig. 18, ?.) 



Statira 'presuturalis, Pic, L'Echange, xxviii, p. 76 (Oct. 

 1912). 



Antennae not longer in ^ than in ?, rather stout, joint 11 equalling 

 9 and 10 united in the two sexes ; head with a large shallow inter- 

 ocular fovea; prothorax slightly longer than broad, very finely, 

 sparsely punctate; elytra depressed below the base, very finely, 

 closely striato-punctate, the punctures usually placed in fine striae 

 on the basal half, the interstice 3 with several, and 5 and 9 with one 

 or two, widely separated setigerous impressions on the apical half ; 

 body rather convex, castaneous, shining, the palpi and prothorax 

 sometimes infuscate, the juxta-sutural blackish stripe on the elytra 

 often continued to the apex, dilated beyond the middle into a com- 

 plete or interrupted transverse fascia, and widened again at the apex ; 

 femora strongly clavate ; aedeagus of ^ rather broad and acuminate. 

 Femora more or less clavate. 



Length 5|-8 J, breadth 2-3 mm. (c^?.) 



Hah. Brazil {Mus. Brit., Mus. Oxmi.), Blumenau {coll. 

 Pic : type), Rio de Janeiro {Fry). 



The long series of this insect before me agree sufficiently 

 well with Pic's brief diagnosis to render the identification 

 certain. From the somewhat similar S. suturalis, Makl. 

 (No. 5), from Rio de Janeiro, etc., it is at once separable by 

 the absence of the long spine at the base of the anterior 

 femora, the stouter antennae, with shorter apical joint in 

 cJ, the longer prothorax, etc. The juxta-sutural stripe is 

 often dilated into a post-median fascia and an apical patch. 



82. Statira octolineata, n. sp. 



Somewhat robust, moderately elongate, shining; obscure cas- 

 taneous, the legs and antennae ferruginous in one specimen, 

 the alternate elytral interstices 2, 4, 6, 8 each with a narrow 

 blackish stripe extending to near the apex; the elytra with a 



