360 On the African and Asiatic Species of Melyris. 



nervures and stigma brown ; b. n. falling very far short of 

 t.-m. ; first r. n. joining first t.-c. ; third discoidal cell 

 wholly confluent with second submarginal, i.e. the lower 

 side of second s.m. lacking. Tibiae and tarsi, and apices of 

 femora, orange-testaceous ; claws cleft, pulvillus large ; 

 abdomen practically impunctate, with very sparse hairs, 

 apical half with microscopical lineolation ; hind margins of 

 segments brownish. Anterior tarsi with thickened hairs, 

 curled at end. 



Sandakan, Borneo [Baker, 9977). 



Two specimens. 



The genus Heterapis was based on two minute Australian 

 species. The present insect, from Borneo, differs from both 

 by the combination of minute size with a broad subquadrate 

 head, but it is unquestionably congeneric. Perkins in 1912 

 added a third Australian species, also very distinct from that 

 now described. 



XXXVIII. — Notes on the African and Asiatic Species of 

 Melyris, Fab. (sensu lato), with an Account of their Sexual 

 Characters : Supplementary. By G. C. Champion, F.Z.S. 



AMONGST the eighty species of Melyris enumerated in my 

 paper on these insects published in the October number of 

 this Magazine (pp. 157-219), five only were recorded as 

 having a modification of the intermediate or posterior tarsi in 

 tlie males. This portion of the tarsal structure of four of them 

 was figured : M. parallel a on p. 204, M. quadricollis on p. 205, 

 M. klugi on p. 208, and M. bicalcarata on p. 209. Owing, 

 however, to an unfortunate mistake made in numbering the 

 drawings of the Abyssinian M. parallela (No. 61) and 

 M. quadricollis (No. 62) , the figures and descriptions of the 

 tarsi of these two insects have been transposed on pp. 204- 

 206, and the error was not detected when the proofs were 

 finally corrected by me during an enforced absence from 

 home, and when the specimens were not at hand for checking 

 purposes. 



.Figure 3 (M. parallela) shows the intermediate tarsus 

 of M. quadricollis, $ , and figure 4 {quadricollis) that of 

 M. parallela, <$ ; and the accompanying descriptions of the 

 tarsal structure of M. quadricollis refer to M. parallela, and 

 those of M. parallela to M. quadricollis. 



M. albicoma (No. 36) should have been placed amongst 

 the Somali land forms, pp. 196-201. 



