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Described from a $ example. Another specimen, ? , 

 from Mlanje in Nyasaland (S. A. Neave : 15. viii. 1913), is 

 perhaps referable to the same species : it is broader than the 

 type, bluish-green in colour, and lias the eyes more convex. 

 M. atricornis cannot be satisfactorily included under the 

 variable M. nigripes, Harold, the intercostal spaces on the 

 elytra being somewhat regularly triseriate-punctate, as well 

 as feebly transversely wrinkled. The puncturing of the 

 upper surface is very much finer, and the elvtral costae 

 much more prominent, than in the allied M. umbilicata from 

 Nigeria. 



45. Melyris virens, sp. n. • 



? . Moderately elongate, robust, rather broad, shining, 

 fusco-pubescent ; bluish-green, the antenna? and legs nigro- 

 piceous, the abdomen brassy-green ; the head and prothorax 

 densely punctulate and reticulate. Head and antennas short. 

 Prothorax transverse, arcuately narrowed anteriorly, sulcate, 

 the lateral carina sinuate, the margins feebly crenulate. 

 Elytra broader than the prothorax, moderately long ; sharply 

 tricostate, the interspaces coarsely triseriate-punctate, the 

 inferior apical margin sharply crenulate. Legs rather stout; 

 tarsal claws sharply toothed at about the middle. 



Length 5-5^, breadth 2§-2§ mm. 



Hub. E. Africa, Uganda and the highlands of Masai 

 (Scott- Elliot). 



One female, without definite locality. A second example 

 of the same sex, from Ukamba, Tiwa River (S. W. J. Schole- 

 field: 22-27. i. 1912), with the margins of the prothorax 

 more distinctly crenulate, the elvtral interspaces less coarsely 

 triseriate-punctate, and the ventral segments blue, seems to 

 belong to the same species. Near M. parvula, Gerst., but a 

 little broader and more robust, the legs wholly blackish. 

 The non-plicate, triseriate-punctate elytral interspaces and 

 the less elongate shape separate M. virens from small 

 M. nigripes, Harold, and the broader and more robust build 

 distinguishes it from M. atricornis. The present species is 

 also very like the S. African M. lineata, the latter being a 

 little less robust, less shining above and beneath, and having 

 longer legs and more feebly toothed tarsal claws. 



46. Melyris uniformis, sp. n. 



? . Elongate, widened posteriorly, rather convex, sparsely 

 pubescent, dull above, shining beneath ; green, the antennas, 

 palpi, labrum, and tarsi piceous or black ; the head and 



