African and Asiatic Species 0/ Melyris. l'.'l 



separate the present species from the Abyssinian M.ruspolii, 

 Pic. 



39. Melyris hacquardi, sp. n. 



d . Elongate, narrow, shining, green or bluish-green, 

 golden-green beneath, the antennas (except along the inner 

 edge of joints 6-10), le<;s, and sixth ventral segment rufo- 

 testaceous ; sparsely and very finely fusco-pubescent above, 

 the under surface with longer pallid hairs, the abdomen with 

 long blackish hairs at tip ; the head and prothorax densely 

 punctulate and finely reticulate. Head short, rather broad, 

 the eyes convex ; antennae not very short, the joints some- 

 what loosely articulated, 5-10 about equally widened. Pro- 

 thorax transverse, rounded at the sides anteriorly, canaliculate, 

 the hind angles obtuse, the lateral carina sharp and feebly 

 sinuate, the margins feebly crenulate. Elytra wider than 

 the prothorax, long, subparallel ; very sharply tricostate, the 

 interspaces rather coarsely triseriate-punctate, the inferior 

 margin feebly crenulate towards the apex. Beneath closely, 

 finely punctate. Ventral segment 5 with a deep, transverse, 

 aicuate excavation in the middle and the apex rather deeply 

 arcuate-emarginate, 6 feebly bi-impressed, emarginate at tip. 

 Tarsal claws very long, toothed beyond the middle. 



Length 5i— 5^, breadth 2-2| mm. 



Hah. E. Africa, Zanzibar, Mhonda-Ouzigoua (Hacquard 

 Mission, 1879-80). 



Two males from the Sharp collection. Very near M. 

 parvula, Gerst., type from Endara, as here identified ; but 

 separable therefrom by the longer and paler antenna?, the 

 outer joints of which are less closely articulated and not so 

 broad (these joints forming a sort of club in M. parvula), 

 the longer tarsal claws, and the very deep arcuate excava- 

 tion on the fifth ventral segment in <$ . M. femoralis, Pic 

 (1898), also from Zanzibar, is another allied form, with the 

 femora only clear testaceous and the elytra more dilated 

 posteriorly. 



40. Melyris parvula. 



Melyris parvula, Gerst. Arch. f. Naturg. xxxvii. p. 56 (1871) l , and in 

 Van der Decken's Heisen, iii. p. 157 (1873) 2 ; VVaterh. P. Z. S. 1885, 

 p. 231 3 ; Kolbe, Deutsch Ost-AMka, iv. p. 222 (1898) 4 . 



$ . Ventral segment 5 with a shallow, transverse, arcuate 

 depression, broadly arcuate-emarginate at tip, 6 rufous or 

 piceous, bi-impressed, emarginate at apex ; median lobe of 

 oedeagus broad, pointed at the apex. 



$ . Ventral segment 5 unimpressed, G cleft. 



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