New and little-known Lagriidae. 239 



tip, each of them preceded by a small tubercle. Legs long and 

 slender. 



Length 6-7, breadth 2 mm. 



Hah. Brazil, Ceara {Gounelle, ex coll. Fry). 



Two males. A narrow, moderately shining, testaceous 

 form, with piceous, sparsely seriato-tuberculate elytra, a 

 very broad head, a conspicuously punctured, subcampanu- 

 late prothorax, and an extremely elongate apical joint 

 to the (^-antenna. S. dromioides is very like various 

 similarly coloured species of the Carabid- genus Drmnius. 



93. Statira stenoptera, n. sp. 



Elongate, narrow, the head and prothorax dull, the elytra shining ; 

 testaceous or obscure testaceous, the eyes black, the sides of the 

 elytra broadly and indeterminately, the prothorax, and the posterior 

 femora in their outer half, more or less inf uscate ; the elytra with a 

 few very long bristly hairs. Head large, transversely convex, much 

 broader than the prothorax, closely punctate, the eyes large, narrowly 

 separated in (J, more distant in $; antennae slender [outer joints 

 missing]. Prothorax much longer than broad, oblong-campanu- 

 late, constricted before the base, the basal margin raised ; somewhat 

 closely, conspicuously punctate, the interspaces alutaceous. Elytra 

 long, narrow, slightly widened at the middle and there twice as 

 wide as the prothorax, somewhat acuminate posteriorly, deeply, 

 obliquely depressed on the disc below the base, and also longitudin- 

 ally hollowed towards the sides just below this; closely, finely 

 punctato-striate, the interstices almost flat, 3 with five or six setiger- 

 ous impressions scattered between the base and apex, and 1 and 5 

 with one or two, and 9 with three, similar impressions towards the 

 tip. 



Length 6-6|, breadth 1| mm. 



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



Two specimens, assumed to be (^ and $. A narrow, 

 fragile form, wnth a large head, allied to S. dromioides and 

 S. casnonioides, the head and prothorax punctured as in the 

 former, and the elytra deeply excavate below the base as 

 in the latter; the prothorax is long and narrow, as in 

 S. dromioides. 



94. Statira quadrisignata, n. sp. 



(J. Elongate, narrow, shining, the elytra dull; testaceous, the 

 eyes and two Jbroad transverse fasciae on the elytra (one basal, nar- 

 rowed outwards, the second broader, post-median, straight, neither 



