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interspaces with about five rows of rather fine punctures. 

 Beneath closely punctate, the ventral segments also trans- 

 versely rugulose, 5 transversely depressed in the middle, 

 G cleft. Tarsal claws long, with a sharp tooth beyond the 

 middle, 



Length 11, breadth 4Jr mm. 



Hab. E. Africa, Lagari (Mile 469) (C. S. Betton : 1. iii.- 

 21. v. 1900). 



One female. Very like M. luckmani from Lake Naivashn, 

 but easily separable therefrom by the narrow elongate head 

 and the longer conical prothorax. 



34. Melyris paUidiventris. 

 Zygia paUidiventris, Pic, L'Echange, xxii. p. 1 (1906). 



Elongate, rather broad, robust, shining, sparsely, finely 

 pubescent above, and clothed with long pallid or fulvous 

 hairs beneath, the abdomen fringed with long blackish hairs 

 at the tip ; caeruleous or green, the basal joints of the 

 antennas (except the first above), the femora (except at the 

 extreme tip in some specimens), and abdomen (the black 

 terminal abdominal segment in $ excepted) rufo-testaceous, 

 the rest of the antennae and legs black or piceous, the wings 

 violaceous; the head and prothorax densely punctulate and 

 shailowly reticulate. Head short, the anterior portion nar- 

 row ; antennas short. Prothorax transversely subcampanu- 

 late, feebly canaliculate ; the lateral carina angulate, some- 

 times obsolete at the middle, and becoming very prominent 

 exterior to the deep basal impressions, the latter polished 

 near the posterior margin, the hind angles more or less 

 extended outwards. Elytra much broader than the pro- 

 thorax, long, somewhat produced at the apex ; rather feebly 

 tricostate, the interspaces quadri-seriate-punctate, the punc- 

 tures coarser and subcontinent in some specimens, smaller 

 and more regularly arranged in others. Tarsal claws long, 

 sharply toothed beyond the middle. 



^ . Metasternum along each side of the median channel 

 and posterior trochanters fulvo-villose ; ventral segment 5 

 broadly arcuate-emarginate, 6 hollowed along each side of 

 the convex median portion, notched at tip; median lobe 

 of zedeagus produced into a rather stout, long, downwardly- 

 curved point, which is truncate at the apex. 



Length 10-13, breadth 4^-5i mm. {£ ? .) 



Hab. E. and Central Africa, Kilimandjaro {type of Pic) , 

 Itigi (Dr. G. H. D. Carpenter: x. 1917 : <$ ? ), Katanga in 

 the Congo Region (Lemaire, in Mus. Congo Beige : ? ). 



