218 Mr. G. C. Champion on the 



6 excavate down the middle anteriorly, truncate at the tip. 

 Legs long, slender; tarsal claws long, sharply toothed at 

 about the middle. 



Length 61, breadth 2h mm. 



Hab. Abvssinia, Scioa [Shoa], Let-Marefia (Ragaszi, in 

 Mus. Genoa : v. 1885). 



One specimen, assumed to be $ . An isolated form, with 

 a small, subopaque, uneven, non-carinate, black prothorax, 

 and very elongate, much broader, brassy-green elytra, the 

 latter tricostate, with the interspaces triseriate-punctate. 

 This species looks out of place in the present genus, but it 

 agrees with M. granulata, e.rcisa, &c, in general structure. 



80. Melyris fulvipennis, sp. n. 



c? . Oblong-oval, shining, thickly fulvo-pilose ; black, the 

 three basal joints of the antennae, the elytra and legs (the 

 infuscate apices of the tarsi excepted), the apical halves of 

 the ventral segments 1—4, and 5 almost entirely, fulvous or 

 testaceous ; the head and prothorax densely punctulate and 

 reticulate. Head short ; antennse somewhat elongate, sharply 

 serrate from the fourth joint. Prothorax convex, rounded 

 at the sides, narrowed anteriorly, silicate, without lateral 

 carina, the margins crenulate. Elytra moderately long, 

 much broader than the prothorax, conjointly rounded at the 

 apex ; obsoletely tricostate, the interspaces closely, rather 

 coarsely triseriate-punctate, the inferior margin crenulate. 

 Tarsal claws toothed beyond the middle. 



Length 6|, breadth 21 mm. 



Hub. S.W. Africa, Damaraland (Mus. Oxon.). 



One specimen, bought at Stevens's sale rooms in 1865. 

 Easily identified by the fulvous vestiture, elytra, and legs, 

 and the non-carinate prothorax, the position of the carina 

 indicated anteriorly by a line of fulvous hairs. The only 

 Melyris at all resembling it in colour is M. atriceps, Pic, 

 from Cape Colony ; the two other S. African members of 

 the genus with a similar prothorax are metallic. 



Alphabetical numbered list of species of Melyris, Zygia, and 

 Pseudozygia enumerated in the present paper; those 

 marked with an asterisk are described as new. 



abdorninalis, 21. apicalis, 17. 



albicorua, 36. argodi, 76. 



alluaudi, 29. *atricornis, 44. 



aucevi, n. n.,49. *aurescens, 7. 



