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in the pinon-juniper-oak association in the Chisos Mts. of Texas 
(C.T.P.) • 
Evidently robusta is closely related to or possibly identical with 
tuberosa which Champion described, p. 31, from one female from 
Jalapa, Mexico. So far no Mexican examples have been seen. 
Statira croceicollis Maklin 
Statira croceicollis Maklin, 1863, Act. Soc. Sci. Fenn. 7: 594. ReprintedApril 
13, 1863, p. 106. 
Type: collected by Motschulsky at Mobile, Alabama; presumably 
in the Zool. Mus. in Helsinki. 
Range: This early spring species has been collected during March 9 
to April 24 most often in peninsular Florida: Dunedin (H.C.F., 
C.U.), Enterprise (C.T.P., H.C.F.), Jupiter (M.C.Z., 111 . 
N.H.S.), Kissimmee (A.M.N.H.), Lake Worth (C.U.), Biscayne 
(A.N.S.P.), Miami (CT.P.), Paradise Key (H.C.F., C.A.F.), Key 
Largo (A.M.N.H.) There are two specimens from Georgia: St. 
Simons Island (C.T.P.) , “Geo.” (H.C.F.) ; two specimens from 
Mississippi: Ocean Springs (C.U.), Lucedale (C.U.) ; and a female 
collected by A. Nicolay on June 23, 1933 at Chesapeake Beach, 
Maryland (H.C.F.) 
Statira dolera new species 
fig. 1. 
Having the appearance of a teneral basalts but a little larger and 
distinctly larger than gagatina. The color tends to be more pale 
than basalts with the sutural margins of the elytra more pale than 
the rest of the elytra ; shining, piceous, with the head darker and the 
elytra usually more pale, legs testaceous to brown with a tendency 
for the apices of the femora to be darker. Antennae and anterior 
part of head rufous. Vertex narrower than in gagatina, densely 
rather coarsely punctate, much more coarsely punctate than prono- 
tum but a little more finely punctate than elytral striae. Eleventh 
antennal segment as long as 10th, 9th, 8th, 7th, and Y\. of 6th to 
all of 6th segments combined in the male and as long as the 10th, 
9th, 8th, and 2/3-3/ 4. of 7th segments combined in the female. 
Prothorax of holotype with width/length as 1/.90, in the allotype as 
1 /-9 3 i anterior margin truncate or very feebly emarginate, sides 
more rounded than in gagatina or basalis, posterior margin truncate, 
lateral line distinct and entire, disc very finely and sparsely punctate, 
the punctures about 6X their diameters apart, the intervals very 
finely granular. In the allotype and some paratypes the punctures 
