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prothorax, gradually widened to the middle and rapidly narrowed 

 posteriorly, mucronate at the tip, transversely depressed on the disc 

 anteriorly; closely, finely punctato-striate, the interstices feebly 

 convex, 3, 5, and 9 with from two to four widely scattered setigerous 

 impressions. Anterior femora clavate. 

 length 6-6|, breadth 2-2| mm. (cj$.) 



Hab. Brazil {Mus. Brit., Mus. Oxon.), Constancia, 

 Tijuca {J. Gray and //. Clarh, Jan. 1857), Rio de Janeiro 

 (Fry), Sao Antonio, Bahia (GouneUe). 



A long series, those in the Oxford Museum in very bad 

 condition, some of them (immature) obscure testaceous in 

 colour. Separable from the closely allied S. presiituralis, 

 Pic, by the relatively narrower head and prothorax, the 

 smaller eyes, the more slender antennae, etc. ; from S. octo- ' 

 lineafa by the nuich shorter elytra, narrower head and 

 prothorax, and smaller eyes; and from S. suturalis, Miikl., 

 by the absence of the anterior femoral spine, etc. This 

 is one of several members of the genus with the eleventh 

 antennal joint similar in length in the two sexes. 



86. Statira egaensis, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, widened posteriorly, shining; rufo- or fusco- 

 castaneous, the eyes black, the elytra and legs (the knees and bases 

 of the femora excepted) nigro-piceous or piceous, in one si^ecimen 

 almost concolorous with the rest of the surface; the elytra with 

 numerous long bristly hairs. Head broad, well-developed behind 

 the eyes, sparsely, finely punctate, the eyes moderately large, dis- 

 tant; antennae slender, comparatively short, joint 11 equalling 9 

 and 10 united. Prothorax as wide as the head, broader than long, 

 transversely cordate, constricted in front of the prominent hind 

 angles, the basal margin not much raised; sparsely, finely, con- 

 spicuously punctate. Elytra not very elongate, in their widest part 

 more than twice the breadth of the prothorax, rapidly dilated to 

 the middle, and arcuately narrowed thence to the apex; somewhat 

 coarsely, closely, crenato -striate, the punctures on the disc transverse, 

 the interstices more or less convex, 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 each a row of 

 rather closely placed setigerous impressions extending from the base 

 to the apex. Anterior femora strongly clavate. 



Length 6^. breadth 2i-2| mm. (??) 



Hab. Upper Amazons, Ega {H. W. Bates). 



Three specimens, varying in the colour of the elytra and 

 legs, as is frequently the case in this genus. S. egaensis 

 resembles S. stenodera in its general facies; but the head 



