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on their inner face, the tibiae somewhat curved at the base. Aedeagus 

 stout, acuminate and curved upwards at the tip. 

 Length 5 J, breadth I4 mm. 



Hab. Mexico {Truqui, ex coll. Fry). 



One male. An isolated form, with the general facies 

 of an Arthromacra. Smaller and narrower than the 

 Mexican S. brevipilis, Champ., the head and prothorax 

 very coarsely, confluently punctate, the latter sub- 

 cylindrical, the elytra more deeply crenato-striate, with 

 each of the interstices uniseriato-punctate, much as in 

 S. nigroaenea, Champ., from the same country. S. perforata 

 seems to approach the S,-American genus Statiropsis, 

 Borchni., which is unknown to me. 



128. Statira pilosa, n. sp. (Plate XIII, fig. 34, cJ.) 



Elongate, narrow, rather convex, shining, thickly clothed, the 

 legs included, with long, soft, erect or projecting, pallid hairs ; piceous 

 or rufo -piceous, with a brassy or aeneous lustre above and beneath, 

 the antennae and legs sometimes reddish. Head short, coarsely, 

 confluently, rugosely punctate, the eyes rather small, separated in 

 both sexes by about the width of one of them as seen from above ; 

 antennae rather stout, thickened outwards, in o about reaching 

 the middle of the elytra, in $ much shorter, joint 11 in ^ a little 

 longer than, in $ not equalling, 9 and 10 united. Prothorax sub- 

 quadrate, the sides slightly rounded anteriorly and feebly sinuate 

 before the base, the transverse basal groove well defined, the margin 

 feebly raised ; very coarsely, confluently, foveolato-punctate. Elytra 

 long, subparallel in their basal half, somewhat acuminate posteriorly ; 

 coarsely, closely crenato-striate, the interstices transversely rugu- 

 lose (except near the suture), each with an irregular row of inconspicu- 

 ous piligerous punctures, 4, 6, 8 smoother and subcostate. Ventral 

 segments with scattered piligerous punctures, glabrous along the 

 median line. Legs moderately long, the femora clavate, the tibiae 

 roughly punctate. Aedeagus of ,^ very long, slender, acuminate, 

 enclosed in a long, narrow sheath. 



Length 7H1. breadth 21-3J mm. (cJ$.) 



Hab. Brazil [Miers, in Mus. Oxon.), Rio de Janeiro 

 (Fry). 



Four males and three females, varying greatly in size. 

 The description of S. obscura, Makl., from Santa Rita, 

 Brazil, applies to some extent to the present insect : it 

 is, however, here assumed to have been taken from the 



