iOO Mr. Gr. C. Champion on the 



1887 by Mr. F. J. Jackson, and eight from the Congo 

 Region," lent me by M. Scbouteden, the latter including 

 Pic's type of M. viridiventris from Sankisia. The chief 

 characters of this species are : the blue upper surface, the 

 metallic breast and abdomen, the rufo-testaceous femora, 

 tibiae, and basal joints of the antennae ; the moderately 

 broad, transversely subeampanulate prothorax, with deep 

 basal impressions ; and the elongate, tricostate elytra, 

 Avith somewhat coarsely quadri-seriate-punctate interspaces. 

 Gerstaecker 2 compares M. nobilis with M. rufiventris, Boh., 

 and states that the former has the breast and first two 

 ventral segments bluish-green and the last four segments 

 almost black. The male, like that of M. incomplete^ Fairm., 

 which has the ventral segments 1-5 wholly red, is not 

 represented in the material before me. 



38. Melyris itigiensis, sp. n. 



Moderately elongate, bluish-green or green above, green 

 or golden beneath, the basal four or five joints of the 

 antennas, the legs, and the sixth ventral segment of $ rufo- 

 testaceous ; very finely pubescent, the under surface with 

 long pallid hairs, the apex of the abdomen fringed with still 

 longer blackish hairs, the wings bluish ; the head and pro- 

 thorax densely punetulate and reticulate. Head rather long 

 and narrow, but not produced anteriorly, the eyes depressed ; 

 antennas very short, the broadly widened joints 5-11 forming 

 a loose club. Prothorax fully as long as broad, conical, 

 obliquely narrowing from near the ba«e forward, sulcate ; 

 the lateral carina sharp, sinuous, and reaching the obtuse 

 hind angles, the base slightly hollowed in the middle. 

 Elytra moderately long, subparallel ; alutaceous, sharply 

 tricostate, the interspaces not very coarsely triseriate-punc- 

 tate, and more or less distinctly transversely plicate, the 

 inferior apical margin crenulate. Beneath closely punctate. 

 Tarsal claws long, sharply toothed at about the middle. 



^ . Ventral segment 5 unimpressed, arcuate -e margin ate, 

 6 almost smooth; median lobe of sedeagus sharply acuminate. 



Length 5-6, breadth 2l-2£ mm. (J ? .) 



Hub. E. Africa, Itigi (Capt. G. H. D. Carpenter : x. 1917). 



Eight specimens, including five males, found with M. 

 pallidiventris, Pic, on flowers of Acacia. A close ally of 

 M. parvula, Gerst., with a much longer, conical prothorax, 

 a longer head, and less coarsely triseriate-punctate inter- 

 costal spaces on the elytra, the median lobe of rj-sedeagus 

 sharply acuminate. The smaller size, green abdomen, &c., 



