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the elytra to a little beyond the middle, except around the scutellum 

 and on an oblique or subtriangular space on the disc, and in one 

 specimen a narrow, transverse oblique mark on the disc before the 

 apex, black; the elytra with several erect bristly hairs towards the 

 tip. Head broad, sparsely, minutely punctate, obsoletely canalicu- 

 late between the eyes, the latter large, separated by about the 

 width of one of them; antennae (fig. 29) slender, moderately long, 

 joints 3-10 rapidly decreasing in length, 7-10 moniliform, 11 ex- 

 tremely elongate, about as long as 3-10 united. Prothorax (fig. 29a) 

 narrower than the head, aV)out as long as broad, cordate, dilated 

 at the base; sparsely, minutely punctate, and with a deep lancifoim 

 sulcus on the disc in front. Elytra moderately long, gradually 

 widened to the middle; closely, finely punctato-striate, the inter- 

 stices broad, feebly convex at the apex, 3, 5, and 9 with three or four 

 scattered setigerous impressions on the posterior half, 1 also with a 

 single impression near the tip. 



Var. The prothorax broadly infuscate along the sides, the blackish 

 portion of the elytra more extended, reaching the subapical 

 mark. (cJ.) 



Length 5J-6, breadth l|-2 mm. 



Hub. Lower Amazons, Santarera {H. W. Bates : type) ; 

 Brazil, Pernambuco {Fry : var.). 



Described from three specimens, one of those from 

 Santarem now wanting the antennae. A very close ally 

 of S. vageguttata, Pic, with the apical joint of the (^ antenna 

 nearly as long as the rest united, and the joints preceding 

 it moniliform. There is also a corresponding variety with 

 a laterally fusco-vittate prothorax. It is just possible that 

 these insects may be forms of S. brasiliensis, Pic (Melanges 

 exot.-entom. iv, p. 19), which is said to have a long terminal 

 joint to the antennae; but without comparison, it would 

 be unsafe to identify them as such. 



110. Statira xanthodera, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, shining, the elytra sericeous; black, the 

 prothorax, the femora at the base, and the tarsal claws testaceous ; 

 the elytra with a few long, erect, bristly hairs. Head almost smooth, 

 well -developed behind the eyes, the latter small and widely separated ; 

 antennae short, not very slender, joint 11 equalling 8-10 united. 

 Prothorax as wide as the head, transverse, subcordate, dilated at the 

 base; smooth, with a very deep, sharply defined, oblong excavation 

 on the disc in front. Elytra moderately long, about twice as broad 

 as the prothorax, gradually widened to the middle, rounded at the 



