168 Mr. G. C. Champion on the 



Protliorax transverse, gradually, arcuately narrowed from 

 near the base, shallowly canaliculate, the lateral carina nearly 

 straight, the sides slightly expanded. Elytra moderately 

 long, at the base about as broad as the protliorax, widened 

 posteriorly, narrowly explanate at the sides and apex ; 

 sharply tricostate, the interspaces alutaceous, and coarsely, 

 regularly triseriate-punctate, the inferior apical margin 

 crenulate. Legs slender ; tarsal claws moderately long, 

 toothed at about the middle. 



$ . Ventral segments 5 and 6 broadly arcuate-emarginate 

 at the apex, 5 transversely excavate and 6 convex, in the 

 centre. 



Length 4JU5J, breadth 1^-2$ mm. (c? ? .) 



Hab. S. Africa, Cape of Good Hope (Mus. Brit., Mus. 

 Oxofi.). 



Described from two specimens of each sex sent me many 

 years ago from the " Cape " and an imperfect example in 

 the Oxford Museum. Near M. ciliativentris, the upper 

 surface opaque, the <$ wanting the whitish cilia on the 

 ventral segments, the sixth not bifurcate. The more dis- 

 tinctly expanded elytral margins and the less convex general 

 shape separate M. capensis from M. pubescens> lineata, etc., 

 and the non-granulate protliorax from M. violacea. 



10. Melyris violacea, sp. n. 



? Melyris violacea, Sturm, in Gernni. and Harold's Cat. Col. vi. 

 p. 1719 (1869). 



Elongate, rather depressed, brilliant blue or violaceous 

 above and beneath, the legs and antennas black, the joints 

 2 and 3 of latter rufescent in one specimen ; thickly clothed 

 with short, curled, blackish hairs, which form a prominent 

 imbricate fringe along the sides of the protliorax, the 

 abdomen fringed with long black hairs at the tip. Head 

 small, densely punctulate and reticulate, the eyes convex ; 

 antennas short in ? , longer and more strongly serrate in £ . 

 Protliorax broader than long, ample, arcuately narrowing 

 from the obtuse hind angles, obsoletely canaliculate, the 

 lateral carina feebly developed; angulato-reticulate and 

 -conspicuously granulate. Elytra a little wider than the 

 base of the protliorax, elongate, parallel, narrowly explanate 

 at the sides and apex, rounded at the tip ; sharply tricostate, 

 the interspaces coarsely triseriate-punctate, the inferior 

 apical margin crenulate. Beneath closely punctulate. Legs 

 slender ; tarsal claws moderately long, toothed at a little 

 beyond the middle. 



