African and Asiatic Species of Melyris,, 191 



separate the present species from the Abyssinian M. ruspolii, 

 Pic. 



39. Melyris hacquardi, sp. n. 



c£ . Elongate, narrow, shining, green or bluish-green, 

 golden-green beneath, the antennae (except along the inner 

 edge of joints 6-10), leys, and sixth ventral segment rufo- 

 testaceous ; sparsely and very finely fusco-pubescent above, 

 the under surface with longer pallid hairs, the abdomen with 

 long blackish hairs at tip ; the head and prothorax densely 

 punctulate and finely reticulate. Head short, rather broad, 

 the eyes convex ; antennae not very short, the joints some- 

 what loosely articulated, 5-10 about equally widened. Pro- 

 thorax transverse, rounded at the sides anteriorly, canaliculate, 

 the hind angles obtuse, the lateral carina sharp and feebly 

 sinuate, the margins feebly crenulate. Elytra wider than 

 the prothorax, long, subparallel ; very sharply tricostate, the 

 interspaces rather coarsely triseriate-punctate, the inferior 

 margin feebly crenulate towards the apex. Beneath closely, 

 finely punctate. Ventral segment 5 with a deep, transverse, 

 arcuate excavation in the middle and the apex rather deeply 

 arcuatc-einarginate, 6 feebly bi-impressed, emarginate at tip. 

 Tarsal claws very long, toothed beyond the middle. 



Length 5 i— 5i, breadth 2-2^ mm. 



Hub. E. Africa, Zanzibar, Mhonda-Ouzigoua {Hacquard 

 Mission, 1879-80). 



Two males from the Sharp collection. Very near M. 

 parvula, Gerst., type from Endara, as here identified ; but 

 separable therefrom by the longer and paler antennae, the 

 outer joints of which are less closely articulated and not so 

 broad (these joints forming a sort of club in M. parvula). 

 the longer tarsal claws, and the very deep arcuate excava- 

 tion on the fifth ventral segment in £ . M.femoralis, Pic 

 (1898), also from Zanzibar, is another allied form, with the 

 femora only clear testaceous and the elytra more dilated 

 posteriorly. 



40. Melyris parvula. 



Melyris parvula, Gerst. Arch. f. Natm*£. xxxvii. p. 56 (1871) l , and in 

 Van der Deckeu's Reisen, iii. p. 157 (1873) - ; Waterh. P. Z. 8. 1885, 

 p. 231 3 ; Kolbe, Deutseh Ost-Afrika, iv. p. 222 (1898) *. 



^ . Ventral segment 5 with a shallow, transverse, arcuate 

 depression, broadly arcuate- emarginate at tip, 6 rufous or 

 piceous, bi-impressed, emarginate at apex ; median lobe of 

 aedeagus broad, pointed at the apex. 



$ . Ventral segment 5 unimpressed, 6 cleft. 



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