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Habitat: It has been collected on cotton, Datura meteloides , and 
from leaf axils of Yucca with dead flowers in them. Werner and 
Nutting have taken it at light in the following plant associations in 
Arizona (C.T.P.) : Larrea , mesquite-cholla, chaparral, sycamore- 
oak-ash, and mesquite-desert grassland. 
Statira hirsuta Champion 
Statira hirsuta Champion, 1889, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleop. 4(2) : 50-51. 
Statira simulans Schaeffer, 1905, Journ. New York Ent. Soc. 13: 180. new 
SYNONYMY. 
Types: of hirsuta cotypes from “Mexico (coll. F. Bates), Jalapa, 
Iguala in Guerrero, Tapachula in Chiapas (Hoge) ; Nicaragua, 
Chontales (Belt) all in the British Museum. Jalapa is here designated 
the type locality since a series, of which two are in the A.M.N.H., 
was collected there. Of simulans from Brownsville, Texas 
(U.S.N.M.). 
Range: In the United States hirsuta occurs from June 7 to August 
8 in southeastern Texas at Brownsville, usually at the Esperanza 
Ranch. Also in the authors’s collection is a specimen taken by Henry 
Wenzel in Dimmit Co., 250 miles northwest of Brownsville. The 
species extends through Mexico: (May 24 to August 22) Nuevo 
Leon, Tamaulipas, Vera Cruz, Mexico City, Guerrero, Chiapas to 
Nicaragua. 
Habitat: F. Werner and W. Nutting collected hirsuta at light in 
desert shrub in Nuevo Leon and at light in mesophytic forest in 
Tamaulipas. 
Statira pulchella Maklin 
Statira pulchella Maklin, 1863, Act. Soc. Sci. Fenn. 7: 589. Reprinted April 
13, 1863, pp. 101-2. Figured by Champion, 1889, Biol. Centr.-Amer. 
pi. 2, fig. 8. 
Type: from Mexico presumably in the Zool. Mus. in Helsinki. 
Range : This species occurs in the United States in extreme south- 
eastern Texas at Brownsville where J. N. Knull collected a series 
on June 1-8, 1934 (H.C.F.) In Mexico it has been taken on the 
Atlantic slope in Vera Cruz: Jalapa (B.M., A.M.N.H.), Cordova 
(B.M.), Atoyac (B.M.) and in eastern San Luis Potosi: Tama- 
sunchale (C.T.P.) 
Habitat: F. Werner and W. Nutting took the Tamasunchale speci- 
men at light in open river bottom on May 30. 
Statira nigromaculata Champion 
Statira nigromaculata Champion, 1889, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleop. 4(2): 
33-34, pi. 2, fig. 9. 
