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metasternum. The Hartan Peninsula forms one side of 

 Beilul Bay. The exact locality for M. rubrolimbata is not 

 recorded. 



55. Melyris insularis. 

 Melyris insularis, Gahau, Bull. Liverpool Mus. iii. p. 8 (1900). 



Hub. E. Africa, Sokotra Island, Abd-el-Kuri {W. R. O. 

 Grant: 22. ii. 1899). 



Two males and one female were captured by Mr. Grant. 



A rather short broad form, metallic green above, the 

 antennae (joints 2-5 excepted), legs, and ventral segments 

 black or pieeous ; the prothorax transverse, trapezoidal, 

 somewhat hollowed at the sides, the anterior angles pro- 

 minent, obtuse, the hind angles drawn out laterally, the 

 lateral carina sinuate and not very conspicuous, the median 

 groove evanescent anteriorly ; the elytra very coarsely, tri- 

 seriately, subconHuently punctate between the narrow costae ; 

 the tarsal claws long, armed with a small tooth towards the 

 apex. The <J lias the sixth ventral segment testaceous, and 

 almost smooth, convex along the middle; the median lobe 

 of the aedeagus stout, acuminate, and curved. 



Abyssinian Forms*. 



a. Prothorax and elytra metallic, abdomen and legs 



partly or entirely testaceous. 



a 1 . Prothorax more or less villose Nos. 56-58. 



b 1 . Prothorax not villose Nos. 59-63. 



b. Prothorax, elytra, and under surface metallic, legs 



testaceous ; elytra obsoletely costate No. 64. 



56. Melyris corrosa. 



Melyris corrosa, Reiche, in Ferret and Galinier's Voyage Abyss.. Ins. 



p. 291, t. 18. tigs. 1,1a (1850). 

 Melyris onychina, Roth, in Wiegm. Archiv, 1851, i. p. 121. 

 Melyris atripilosus, Gorh. Ann. Mus. Genova, xviii. p. 600 (1883). 



$ . Ventral segment 5 without median depression, broadly 

 arena te-emarginate at apex, 6 bi-impressed. 



Hab. Ahyssinia, Gouudet to Adoua (Raff'ray, in Mus. 

 Genoa) . 



Dr. Gestro has lent me four males of M. atripilosa. Gorh. 

 including the type, and a larger worn co-type, ? , of 

 M. corrosa, lleiche. The only visible difference between 

 them is due to the fresher condition of the males, the 

 numerous long black erect hairs on the head, prothorax, and 



* M.klugi, Baudi (No. 65), extends to Abyssinia and Somaliland, anc 

 T. nubilis, Gerst. (No. 37), ha-; been recorded from the same regions. 



