200 Mr. G. C. Champion on the 



53. Mclyris rubrocincta. 



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

 Ooleopt. p. 60 (1882). 



Hub. E. Africa, Somaliland (Mus. Brit. : $ $ ), Berbera 

 (coll. Andrewes). 



Distinguished from M. limbifera by the long narrow head, 

 the longer, subcorneal, wholly cyaneous prothorax, and the 

 rather sharper elytral costae. The J -ventral-characters, so 

 far as visible without dissection, are similar. The lateral 

 carina of the prothorax is incomplete in one of ihe five 

 specimens before me. The tarsal claws are very long, 

 sharply toothed at about the middle. 



54. Melyris circumsepta, sp. n. 



Oblong-oval, widened posteriorly, rather convex, somewhat 

 thickly pubescent, dull, the elytra and under surface shining; 

 rul'o-testaceous, the head, the antennae in their outer half, 

 the tarsi and scutellum, and in some specimens the tibiae 

 and two spots on the disc of the prothorax also, black, the 

 elytra (the expanded reddish margins excepted) cyaneous; 

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

 terminal segment also black in ?; the head and prothorax 

 densely punctulate and fi iely reticulate. Head narrow, 

 rather long ; antennae short, joints 5-10 serrate, 4 narrow. 

 Prothorax convex, a little broader than long, rounded at the 

 sides, compressed and much narrowed anteriorly, canalicu- 

 late, the lateral carina sinuate and well defined, the margins 

 feebly dilated, the hind angles obtuse. Elytra oblong-oval, 

 much wider than the prothorax in ?, narrower in £ , 

 acuminate at tip, the margins rather broadly explauate; 

 feebly tricostate, the interspaces with from 3-4 rows of 

 moderately coarse punctures. Tarsal claws toothed at about 

 the middle. 



£ . Ventral segments 5 and 6 emarginate, 6 bi-impressed. 



Length 6-7, breadth 2f-3g mm. (<$ ? .) 



Hab. N.E. Africa, Hartan Peninsula in Eritrea (M. 

 Cameron) . 



Two males and three females. A small form of the insect 

 here identified as M. limbifera, Ancey, with the head narrower, 

 the prothorax less dilated at the shies, and the under surface 

 wholly testaceous. M. rubrolhnbata and its var. rollei, Pic 

 (L'Echange, xxv. p. 142, 1909), from the Somali Coast, the 

 prothorax of which varies in colour in the same way, is a 

 much larger insect (length 9-11 mm.) and has an infuscate 



