1G6 Mr. G. C. Champion on the 



Nine females from S. Africa — four in the British Museum 

 and five at Oxford — are probably referable to M. lineata. 

 Fabricius x gave no locality for it, simply " Dom. Lee " ; 

 and whether Boheman saw the type is doubtful, the last- 

 mentioned author redescribiug M. lineata in his list of 

 Caffrarian beetles. It is highly improbable that both 

 M. ciliata and pubescens, Oliv., are synonymous with 

 M. lineata, as quoted in the ' Munich Catalogue ' ; the 

 crude figure of M. ciliata, however, agrees with the blue 

 form of the present species. The legs are rather slender 

 and the tarsal claws toothed slightly beyond the middle, as 

 in the allied S. African forms. The insect from Cape Colony 

 named M. lineata, F., var. atriceps, by Pic (1900), which is 

 said to be rufo-testaceous above and darker beneath, with 

 the head black and the legs testaceous, can scarcely belong 

 here, unless it is represented by an extremely immature 

 example. 



7. Melyris aurescens, sp. n. 



$ . Moderately elongate, convex, robust, shining, finely 

 pubescent; green, the elytra golden-green, the legs, labrum, 

 and antennas nigro-piceous ; the abdomen fringed with long- 

 black hairs at the tip; the head and prothorax densely 

 punctulate and finely reticulate. Head and antennae short. 

 Prothorax strongly transverse, as broad at the base as the 

 elytra, rounded at the sides, narrowed anteriorly, canali- 

 culate, the lateral carina not prominent and becoming 

 evanescent before the base. Elytra moderately long, sub- 

 parallel, sharply tricostate, the interspaces coarsely tri- 

 seriate-punctate, the inferior apical margin crenulate. Legs 

 stout ; tarsal claws with a long curved tooth at about the 

 middle. Ventral segment 5 emarginate, 6 short, smoother 

 than 5. 



Length 5^, breadth 2\ mm. 



Hab. S.E. Africa, Londiani {ex coll. E. A. Elliott). 



Two males, recently presented to the Museum by 

 Mr. Elliott. These specimens were at first referred to 

 M. lineata, F., the <$ of which is unknown to me ; but 

 this cannot be the case, M. aurescens being more robust, 

 and having a relatively broader prothorax, with basally 

 evanescent carina, and more sharply toothed tarsal claws. 



8. Melyris ciliativentris, sp. n. 

 ? Melyris ciliatus, Oliv. Ent. ii. 21, p. 6, t. 2. figs. 11 a, b. 

 Oblong, somewhat depressed, very finely pubescent, rather 



