182 Mr. Gr. 0. Champion on the 



4 and 5 hollowed down the middle, 5 broadly arcuate- 

 emarginate at apex ; 6 bifoveolate, convex in the centre, 

 emarginate at tip; median lol)e of aedeagus (so far as 

 visible) stout, pointed. Last dorsal segment fringed with 

 long blackish hairs. 



Length 1H, breadth 4imm. 



Hab. E. Africa, Sancurar-Amarr (Bottego, in Mus. 

 Genoa: 11. iv. 1896). 



One male, named M. sansibarica, Harold, by Pic, but 

 differing from the corresponding sex of that species in the 

 wholly testaceous under surface (the propleura excepted), 

 the more elongate elytra, and the coarser puncturing of the 

 entire upper surface. In Harold's species, type from Kitui, 

 Zanzibar, the metasternum is black. 



28. Melyris foveolata, sp. n. 



Elongate, robust, convex, moderately •shining; nigro- 

 oyaneous or violaceous, sometimes greenish beneath, the 

 antennae (the rufescent joints 1-4 excepted) and legs black; 

 thickly clothed with short, decumbent, the apex of the 

 abdomen with long, black hairs ; the head and prothorax 

 densely punctulate and reticulate. Head short, rather broad ; 

 antennae short. Prothorax a little broader than long, sub- 

 conical, gradually narrowed from the base, canaliculate, the 

 lateral carina sinuate, reaching the obtusely rectangular 

 hind angles. Elytra long, much broader than the prothorax, 

 a little widened posteriorly, rounded at the apex ; not or 

 very feebly tricostate (the eostae just traceable when the insect 

 is viewed in profile), the interspaces closely, confluently, 

 tri- or quadriseriately foveolato-punctate, the inferior 

 apical margin creuulate. Ventral segments 1-5 closely punc- 

 tulate. Tarsal claws long, sharply toothed towards apex. 



$ . Ventral segment 5 rather deeply emarginate, 6 broadly 

 exposed, excavate on each side of the raised median portion ; 

 median lobe of aedeagus stout, terminating in a short curved 

 point, as seen in profile. 



Length 10-12^ breadth 4-6 mm. ( $ ? .) 



Hab. E. and Central Africa, Mbali-Kumi road, alt. 

 3700 ft., south of L. Salisbury (S. A. Neave: 15-17. viii. 1911: 

 type J 1 ); Kadunguru, Eastern Province (C. C. Gowdey : 

 1-10. i. 1914), Kagwara (Gowdey. 17. xii. 1913), Bululu 

 and Peta {Gowdey: xii. 1910 and i. 1911), Palebek ( IF. P. 

 Lowe: 24. ii. 1913), and Fatiko (E. JJabbene in Mus. Genoa: 

 $ ? ), all in Uganda ; Wadelai (Emin Pasha). 



Fifteen specimens in the British Museum and sixteen in 



