206 Mr. G. C. Champion on the 



the apex of the abdomen fringed with long black hairs ; the 

 head and prothorax densely punctulate and coarsely reticu- 

 late. Head short, rather broad ; antennae short. Prothorax 

 transverse, subquadrate or trapezoidal, the sides almost 

 straight, finely crenulate, and very gradually converging 

 from the obtuse hind angles forwards (more rapidly so 

 in ?); sulcate down the middle, the lateral carina feebly 

 sinuate and extending outward to the hind angles. Elytra 

 long, subparallel, wider than the prothorax, tricostate, the 

 interspaces with about four rows of rather coarse punctures. 

 Tarsal claws very long, sharply toothed beyond the middle. 



cJ . Joint 1 of intermediate tarsi very short, 2 produced 

 inferiorly into a slightly curved blunt lobe (fig. 4). Ventral 

 segment 5 without median depression, broadly emarginate at 

 apex, 6 deeply bifoveate. 



Length 7|-11, breadth 3-4f mm. ( <J ? .) 



Hab. Abyssinia, Scioa [Shoa] (Antinori, in Mus. Genoa), 

 Gatelo Amaiyn (R. J. Stordy: 4. xi. 1911 : ? ). 



Nearly one hundred specimens of this species are before 

 me, including many males. Gorham was unable to dis- 

 tinguish it from the insect incorrectly identified by him as 

 M. f estiva (=pectoralis, Reiche), from which it is easily 

 separable by the straighter-sided, subquadrate, slightly 

 smoother prothorax, and the inferiorly lobed second joint of 

 the <$ intermediate tarsi, there being no trace of this lobe 

 in the same sex of the allied M. corrosa, pectoralis, or 

 f estiva. In the $ tarsal structure M. quadricolUs approaches 

 M. kluyi and bicalcarata. 



63 . Melyris f estiva . 



Melyris festiva, Iteiche, in Ferret and Galinier's Voyage Abyssin., 

 Ins. p. 292, t. 18. figs. 2, 2 a (1849) [nee GotIi. Ann. Mas. Genova, 

 xviii. p. 599 (1883)]. 



<$ . Ventral segments fulvous, 5 shallowly, broadly emar- 

 ginate, 6 deeply bi-impressed ; terminal dorsal segment 

 fringed with long fulvous hairs at apex. 



? . Ventral segments broadly viridi- or uigro-cyaneo- 

 fasciate, terminal dorsal segment black and fringed with 

 long black hairs at apex. 



Hab. Abyssinia {Raff ray : Mus. Genoa, Mus. Oxon., and 

 ex coll. Sharp). 



There are a pair of this species in the Genoa Museum, a 

 pair in the British Museum (ex coll. Sharp), and a ? in the 

 Oxford Museum. Four of these specimens have the head and 

 prothorax brilliant metallic green or bluish-green and the 



