192 Mr. Ct. C. Champion on the 



Hab. E. Africa (W. A. Lamborn : v. 191 0), Endara 

 (inland from Zanzibar) (Gerst aecker) 1 24 , Athi-ya-Mawe (C. S. 

 Betton : v. 1899), Kilimandjaro (-Sir H. H. Johnston) 3 , Lake 

 Jipe and Tsavo River (Dr. Bayer, in Mus. Congo Beige : vi. 

 1913), Badditu-Dime (Bottego, in Mus. Genoa : v.-vii. 189G), 

 Samburu (C. S. Betton : x., xi. 1896), Mlanje in Nyasaland 

 (S. A. Neave : viii. 1913), Machakos (S. L. Hinde: 1897), 

 Caia, Zambesi (H. Swale : vii., viii. 1911), Namaiila, Lukendo, 

 and Kashitu in N. Rhodesia (H. C. Dollman : ? ), S. Somali- 

 land 4 . 



Many examples, ^ ? , seen from Kilimandjaro, &c., ? ? 

 only from Rhodesia. A small blue or green form, with the 

 elytra sharply tricostate, their interspaces rather coarsely tri- 

 seriate-punctate ; the basal joints of the antennae and the legs 

 rufo-testaceous, the tarsi often wholly or in part, and rarely 

 the apices of the tibiae also, infuscate; the antennae short, 

 the closely articulated, widened outer joints forming a sort 

 of elongate club ; the tarsal claws long, sharply toothed at 

 about the middle ; the margins of the prothorax, and the 

 inferior apical margin of the elytra, more or less distinctly 

 crenulate. Gerstaecker describes the prothorax as " pro- 

 l'unde siilcato," a definition applying to very few of the 

 specimens before me, including a co-type kindly lent me by 

 Dr. Gestro. The twelve examples from Caia and Mlanje, 

 $ $ , are more elongate than the rest, and they may belong- 

 to a different species. One of those from Lake Jipe is 

 brassy-cupreous above. 



11. Melyris brevicollis, sp. n. 



Moderately elongate, shining ; green or golden-green, the 

 basal joints of the antenna? to a variable extent, and the legs 

 (the more or less infuscate tarsi excepted), testaceous or 

 rufo-testaceous ; finely pubescent, the apex of the abdomen 

 fringed with long black hairs ; the head and prothorax 

 densely punctulate and reticulate. Head short, small ; 

 antenna? short in the two sexes. Prothorax strongly trans- 

 verse, rounded at the sides anteriorly, sulcate ; the lateral 

 carina sinuous, the hind angles obtu-e, the margins feebly 

 crenulate. Elytra moderately long, wider than the prothorax, 

 flattened on the disc ; alutaceous, sharply tricostate, the 

 interspaces with three rows of moderately coarse punctures, 

 the inferior apical margin crenulate. Tarsal claws moderately 

 long, armed with a sharp tooth at about the middle. 



$ . Ventral segment 5 broadly arcuate emarginate at tip, 

 6 black, triangularly emarginate. 



