New and little-known Lagriidae. 237 



Hah. Brazil {Mus. Brit. : type), Rio de Janeiro {Fry). 



Two examples, one with the tarsi only, the other (from Rio 

 de Janeiro) with the legs entirely, testaceous, showing that 

 no reliance can be placed on the colour of the legs as a specific 

 character. A narrow black insect, with the elytra blue and 

 slightly shining, the prothorax long, smooth, and opaque, 

 the antennae and legs long and slender, the antennae 

 testaceous, with joints 1-3 blackened. 



90. Statira casnonioides, n. sp. (Plate XII, fig. 21, <^.) 



Moderately elongate, narrow, depressed, rather dull, the elytra 

 shining; piceous, the head black in one specimen the femora and 

 tibiae sometimes paler than the body, the antennae (joint 1 excepted) 

 and tarsi testaceous; the head and elytra with very long, erect, 

 scattered bristly hairs. Head large, broad, sparsely, finely punc- 

 tate, in two specimens, longitudinally depressed between the eyes, 

 the latter large and moderately distant in (J, a little smaller in $ ; 

 antennae slender, moderately long, joint 11 in (J about as long as 

 7-10, in $ not quite equalling 8-10, united. Prothorax narrow, 

 longer than broad, oblong-campanulate, sparsely, minutely punctate, 

 the interspaces alutaceous, the basal margin prominent. Elytra 

 moderately long, at the base, twice as wide as the prothorax, sub- 

 parallel in their basal half in ^, with a very deep, oblique depression 

 on the disc below the base; shallowly, minutely striato-punctate, 

 the interstices flat, 3 with about five, and 5 and 9 with three or four, 

 widely scattered conspicuous setigerous impressions, 1 also with a 

 single impression near the tip, the impressions each preceded by a 

 minute tubercle. Legs slender, long ; anterior tibiae in both sexes 

 abruptly narrowed at the base externally. 



Length Q^l^ breadth 1|-2J mm. (cj?.) 



Hab. Brazil {Mus. Oxon.), Constancia {J. Gray and H. 

 Clark, Jan. 1857 : type, ^), Rio de Janeiro {Fry : $). 



Five specimens, the one in the Oxford Museum immature 

 and almost wholly testaceous. Near S. dromioides, infra, 

 from which it differs in having a narrower and smoother 

 prothorax, a shorter apical joint to the (^-antennae, deeply 

 excavate elytra, with fewer setigerous impressions, and 

 peculiarly formed anterior tibiae, the body also being 

 uniformly piceous. The large head and narrow prothorax 

 give the insect a Casnoniiform facies. S. elegans, Miikl., 

 has somewhat similar anterior tibiae in the two sexes. 



