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tuberculiform space. There is considerable variation in this 

 respect in the aUied S. asperata, Champ. S. trilineata is 

 of a bright rufo-castaneous colour, with a blackish line along 

 the elytral suture and another down the fifth interstice. 

 S. presuturalis, Pic, is a very similar form. 



84. Statira tenuis, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, narrow, shining; castaneous or obscure 

 castaneous, tlie antennae in the male piceous with the apical joint 

 ferruginous; the elytra with a few very long, erect, bristly hairs. 

 Head rather small, rounded, almost smooth, the eyes very large and 

 narrowly separated; antennae (cJ) slender, long, joints 7-10 decreas- 

 ing in length, 11 extremely elongate, about equalling 3-10 united, ($) 

 shorter and stouter, 1 1 barely the length of 7-10 united. Prothorax 

 about as wide as the head, longer than broad, oblong, moderately 

 constricted before the base, sparsely, minutely punctate. Elytra 

 about twice as broad as the prothorax, moderately long, but little 

 widened towards the middle and acuminate posteriorly ; very finely, 

 closely, striato -punctate, the interstices flat, 3 with about six promi- 

 nent setigerous impressions scattered between the base and apex, 

 and 5 and 9 each witli three or four similar impressions on the apical 

 half. 



Length 5|-7*, breadth lf-23^ mm. 



Hab. Amazons, Ega [type], Santarem {H. W. Bates). 



Two males and one female. Not unhke the Brazilian 

 S. stenodera, but with an extremely elongate apical joint 

 to the (^-antennae, large, subcontiguous eyes, and much 

 narrower elytra, with flat interstices. The general shape 

 is similar to that of the Colombian S. trilineata, Makl., as 

 here interpreted. 



85. Statira stenodera, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, shining; rufo-castaneous or castaneous, or 

 piceo-castaneous with the anteimae and legs in great part reddish, 

 the elytra often faintly streaked Avith piceous on the alternate in- 

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

 Head sparsely, very finely punctate, well developed behind the 

 eyes, and with a large, shallow, punctured fovea between them, the 

 eyes rather small (as seen from above) and distant ; antemiae slender, 

 joint 11 the length of 9 and 10 united in the two sexes. Prothorax 

 slightly longer than broad, nearly as wide as the head, oblong, 

 moderately constricted before the base; sparsely, minutely punc- 

 tate. Elytra not very elongate, at the base twice as broad as the 



