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tliroughout their length, 1 and 9 also with several similar impres- 

 sions on the apical half. Legs very long, rather slender. 



Var. The upper surface uniformly castaneous. 



Length 11^-12, breadth 3^3^ mm. 



Hob. Colombia, Ibague {Mus. Brit.). 



Two specimens, acquired in 1846. A very elongate, 

 somewhat convex, shining, rufo-testaceous or castaneous 

 insect, with sharply, obliquely, nigro-trisellate elytra 

 in the form selected as the type, the elytral striae 

 rather deeply impressed and crenato-punctate, the alter- 

 nate interstices with scattered setigerous impressions. The 

 two foveae near the base of the prothorax cannot be acci- 

 dental. The aedeagus (partly exposed in the type) is 

 narrowed to the tip, and a pair of narrow curved claspers 

 are visible beneath the fifth ventral segment. S. trisellata 

 cannot be identified amongst the 28 Colombian Statirae 

 described by Maklin in 1878; it is coloured somewhat as 

 in Colparthrum gerstdckeri, Kirsch. The immaculate form 

 must come near his S.ferruginea : the latter is said to have 

 a somewhat densely punctured prothorax and the elytral 

 striae evanescent towards the apex. 



104. Statira paraensis, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, narrow, the head and prothorax subopaque, 

 the elytra shining; testaceous, the eyes black, the elytra with a 

 narrow, nigro -fuscous, transverse, undulate, post-median fascia — 

 sometimes extending narrowly forwards along the suture and dilated 

 anteriorly into a faint triangular scutellar patch, sometimes not 

 reacliing the suture or altogether wanting; the elytra with a few 

 very long, erect, bristly hairs. Head almost smooth, longitudinally 

 impressed between the eyes, the latter large and somewhat widely 

 separated; antennae long, slender, joint 11 in cJ about equalling 

 8-10, and in $ 9 and 10, united. Prothorax as long as broad, 

 nearly or quite as wide as the head, cordate, dilated at the base; 

 almost impunctate. Elytra moderately long, gradual!}' widened to 

 the middle ; very finely, closely punctato-striate, smoother at the 

 apex, the interstices flat, 3 with about seven conspicuous setigerous 

 impressions scattered along its entire length, 5 and 9 with three 

 or four similar impressions on the apical half, and 1 with one or two 

 near the tip. Aedeagus of (^ strongly acuminate at the tip. 



length 5^6, breadth 1 1-2^, mm. (S9.) 



Hah. Lower Amazons, Para (//. W. Bales). 



