188 Mr. G. C. Champion on the 



Six males and one female from Itigi (ex-German E. Africa) 

 are referred to M. paUidiventris, Pic, a female of which, 

 from Katanga, named by the author, is before me. The 

 wholly infuscate or black tibia? and tarsi separate the present 

 species from M. rufiventris, Boh., and the rufo-testaceous 

 abdomen distinguishes it from J/, nobilis, Gerst., M. alluaudi, 

 Pic, and others. The puncturing of the elytra varies greatly 

 in the series from Itigi, it being very coarse in three of thera. 

 These specimens were all found on flowers of Acacia. 



35. Melyris incompleta. 



? Meh/ris incompleta, Fairm. Compt. Rend. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxvi. 



p. xlix (1882) (2)\ 

 Melyris nobilis, Dixey and Long-staff, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1907, 



p. 357 2 . 



$ . Elongate, broad, robust, moderately shining, the head 

 and prothorax rather dull ; cyaneous, cseruleous, or more 

 rarely green, the antennal joints 1-4, abdomen (the black 

 terminal segment excepted), and legs (the black tarsi 

 excepted) rufo-testaceous, the wings violaceous ; sparsely 

 fusco-pubescent, the lower surface with longer yellowish 

 hairs, the abdomen fringed with long black hairs at the tip; 

 the head and prothorax densely punetulate and reticulate. 

 Head rather small, short; antenna? short. Prothorax con- 

 vex, iransversely subcampanulate, at the base nearly as 

 broad as the elytra, canaliculate, and with an angulate lateral 

 carina, the latter sometimes obsolete at the middle and 

 becoming very prominent at the base, which is deeply 

 excavate or foveate on each side, the hind angles more or 

 less produced, the basal cavities smooth near the posterior 

 margin. Elytra long, subparallel in their basal half, tricos- 

 tate to near the apex, the insterspaces with 4-5 rows of 

 moderately coarse punctures. Ventral segment 5 slightly 

 depressed down the centre, 6 cleft. Tarsal claws long, 

 sharply toothed beyond the middle. 



Length 8i-10£, breadth 3f-4£ ram. 



Hab. E. and S.E. Africa, between Zanzibar and the 

 Great Lakes 1 (type of Fair moire), Nyasaland (Dr. J. E. S. 

 Old B. H. Woodward) ; N. Rhodesia — Niamadzi, near 

 Nawalia, alt. 2000 ft. {S. A. Neflve: 17-22. viii. 1910), 

 Luangwa River and Valley (S. A. Neave : 14-16. viii. 1900, 

 viii.-ix. 1904, and vii.-viii. 1910: Mus. Brit, and Mus. 

 O.con.), Mulungushi's and Mumbwa (H. C. Dollman : viii.-ix. 

 1913); Zambesi — Victoria Falls 2 (C. E. F. Alien, in Mus. 

 Oxon.: 15. ix. 1905). 



Fifty-six specimens, including long series captured by 



