African and Asiatic Species of Melyris. 1G7 



dull above, more shining beneath, the abdomen fringed with 

 long blackish hairs at the tip; blue, bluish-green, or green, the 

 basal one or two joints of the antenna) sometimes reddish 

 beneath, the rest of the antennae and the legs black, the femora 

 and tibiae with a greenish lustre ; the head and prothorax 

 densely punetulate and reticulate. Head short, rather small ; 

 antennas short in both sexes. Prothorax transverse, canalicu- 

 late, the margins feebly crenulate and gradually arcuately con- 

 verging from near the base forward, the lateral carina running 

 almost parallel with the outer margin and reaching the base 

 at some distance from the obtuse hind angles. Elytra 

 moderately long, slightly dilated along the outer and apical 

 margins, which are finely crenulate beneath ; sharply tri- 

 costate to near the tip, the interspaces coarsely, regularly 

 triseriate-punctate. Legs slender ; tarsal claws moderately 

 long, toothed at about the middle. 



cJ . Ventral segments 2-5 densely fringed with whitish 

 hairs along their apical margin, 5 transversely depressed 

 and almost bare in the middle, and slightly hollowed at the 

 apex ; 6 broadly, very deeply emarginate, appearing bilobed ; 

 terminal dorsal segment (pygidium) deeply sulcate. 



? . Ventral segments sparsely, uniformly pubescent, 6 

 cleft. 



Length 4-5, breadth l-fr-2£ mm. (<J ? .) 



Hab. S. Africa, Table Mountain, Cape of Good Hope 

 (IV. Bevins), Uitenhage (Mus. Oxon.). 



The above description is taken from a series of seven 

 males and two females from Table Mountain, received by 

 the British Museum in 1906, a ? from Uitenhage, and a 

 I air without locality in the Hope Museum at Oxford. The 

 last-named are labelled " lineata," and were purchased at 

 the sale of the Entomological Society's collection. Olivier's 

 type of M. ciliata is probably lost, and Boheman does not 

 allude to it in his description of the Eabrician lineata. The 

 present species is remarkable amongst its allies by the ciliate 

 ventral segments of the male. 



9. Melyris capensis, sp. n. 



Moderately elongate, rather depressed, opaque above, 

 somewhat shining beneath, green or bluish-green, the tarsi 

 and antennas black ; sparsely clothed with extremely fine 

 cinereous pubescence, which tends to form lines along the 

 faintly crenulate elytral costee, the abdomen fringed with 

 blackish hairs at the tip; the head and prothorax densely 

 punetulate and feebly reticulate. Head and antennas short. 



