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the Genoa Museum, the Patiko series including numerous 

 males. The Wadelai example ( ? ) was presented to the 

 Museum in 1887, those taken by Dabbene were captured in 

 1882. This species has the elytra closely foveolato-punctate 

 and obsoletely costate as in .17. sansibarica, Harold, type 

 from Kitui, near Zanzibar (a <$ and $ of which have been 

 lent me by Dr. Gestro) , differing from that insect in the wholly 

 infuscate legs and under surface, and the narrower, sub- 

 conical prothorax. M. subcostata, Pic (1913), from Bukama, 

 Belgian Congo, is an allied form with the coxse, femora, aud 

 abdomen testaceous. 



29. Melyris alluaudi. 



Zygia alluaudi, Pie, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1905, p. 303 l . 

 Melyris monticola, Galian, Trans. Zool. Soc. Loud. xix. p. 204, t. 6. 

 fig. 6 (1909) ($) 2 . 



$ . Ventral segment 5 with a transverse arcuate excava- 

 tion in the middle and the apex deeply arcuate-emarginate, 

 6 much smoother, feebly bi-impressed at tip; median lobe of 

 pedeagus curved downward and bluntly pointed at apex. 



$ . Ventral segment 5 with a transverse depression or 

 excavation in the middle, G cleft. 



Length 9-12i, breadth 3^-5 mm. 



Hub. E. Africa, Kilimandjaro 1 {type of Pic), Ruweuzon 2 

 (Le<jye and Wollaston : 1906), M'bagoris Village, edge of 

 Kenya Forest, alt. 5 00ft. (Mas. Brit.), S.E. slope of Kenya, 

 alt. G000-7000ft. {S. A. Neave : 3-12. ii. 1911), Mt. Kenya 

 district- [Crawshay) } Matanda and Kagera in Uganda, and 

 Ruanda (C. H. Marshall). 



Dr. Gestro has been kind enough to lend me a co-type ( £ ) 

 of M. alluaudi, Pic, from Kilimandjaro, and this agrees well 

 with the Kenya and Ruwenzori insect named M. monticola 

 by Gahan, of which there are eleven examples in all (includ- 

 ing three males) in the British Museum. Very like M. nobilis, 

 Gerst., but with the tibia? green, the basal joint of the 

 antennae infuscate or black, the hind angles of the prothorax 

 more obtuse (the sinuous lateral carina extending to the 

 hind angle in each species), the punctures on the elytra 

 a little smaller and more crowded, tending to form four or 

 five series, the ventral segments green or golden green, the 

 fifth transversely excavate in the middle in both sexes. The 

 head is short, closely punctulate and reticulate throughout, 

 and the reticulation of the prothorax is rather coarse. The 

 colour varies from blue to green. M. mecklenburgi, Pic, 

 from the same region, is a nearly allied form. 



