198 Mr. G. C. Champion on the 



49. Melyris anceyi, n. n. 



Melyris versicolor, Ancey, Le Naturaliste, iv. No. 10, p. 78 (May 15th, 

 1882) ; Fairm. in Revoil's Faune et Flore Coraalis, Coleopt. p. 58 

 (1882) (nee Chevr.) : Pic, Ami. Mu.«. Genova, xxxix. p. 508, nota 

 (1899). • 



$ . Ventral segment 5 slightly hollowed at apex, 6 bi- 

 impressed, convex in the middle in front of the triangular 

 apical notch ; median lobe of aedeagus pointed and slightly 

 curved downward at tip. 



? . Ventral segment G black, cleft down the middle. 



Hab. E. Africa, Somaliland (Revoil, ex colls. Sharp and 

 Fry ; Mas. Oxon., ex Deyrolle). 



If the specimens of this insect before me — a pair in the 

 Oxford Museum, and various others, g $ , in the Sharp 

 and Fry collections, all received from Deyrolle — are correctly 

 named, M. versicolor, Ancey, seems to me to be merely a 

 form of M. viridinitens with a rougher and more deeply 

 grooved prothorax. The colour is variable — green, bluish- 

 green, or brilliant violaceous, the reflexed margins of the 

 prothorax being testaceous in one example. The narrower, 

 subcorneal, more closely sculptured prothorax separates both 

 species from the Abyssinian M. festiva, Heiche, which is 

 also a larger insect. The long black hairs at the apex of the 

 abdomen do not arise from the fifth segment as stated by 

 Fairmaire. 



50. Melyris ruspolii. 

 Zyyia ruspolii, Pic, Aim. Mas. Genova, xxxix. p. 508 (1899). 



(T . Ventral segment 5 feebly emarginate at apex, G nar- 

 rowly exposed, bifoveate, notched at tip. 



Hab. E. Africa, Somaliland : Milmil and Salole. 



There is a long series, J ? , of this species in the Genoa 

 Museum. It is of about the same size (length G-8| mm., 

 excluding head) as the Abyssinian M.falvipes, Heiche, which 

 also has a long prothorax, from which the present species 

 differs in its elongate narrow head, rugosely punctate, 

 sharply tricostate elytra, and rufo-testaceous abdomen. 



51. Melyris discoidalis. 



Melyris discoidalis, Fairm. in Revoil's Faune et Flore Qomalis, 



Co-opt. p. 59 (1882). 

 Zygia discoidalis, Bedel, L'Aheille, xxix. p. 36 (1897) ; Schilsky, Kaf. 



Europ. xxxiv. No. 92 ( <J ) (1897). 



Hab. E. Africa, Somaliland, Obock (Mas. Brit.). 



