196 Mr. Gr. 0. Champion on the 



prothorax densely punctulate and finely reticulate ; the 

 abdomen fringed with long hairs at the tip. Head somewhat 

 elongated posteriorly, the antennas short. Prothorax trans- 

 verse, arcuately narrowed anteriorly, feebly canaliculate, the 

 lateral carina sinuate. Elytra long, wider than the prothorax; 

 rather sharply tricostate, the interspaces alutaceous and 

 somewhat finely trL-eriatc-punctate. Tarsal claws sharply 

 toothed at about the middle. 



Length 7, breadth 3 mm. 



Hub. E. Africa, Kondowe to Karonga in Nyasaland, 

 alt. 2000 ft. (A. Whyte, in Mus. Brit. : 1897). 



One female. A form extremely like M. piliyera from 

 N.W. Rhodesia, metallic green above and beneath, the legs 

 and antennas wholly blackish, the upper surface more 

 sparsely pubescent, the elytra tri- (instead of quadri-) seriate- 

 punctate, the head a little longer, and the tooth of the tarsal 

 claws arising from nearer the base. The longer head and 

 larger size separate M. uniformis from M. atricornis. 



Somaliland Forms *. 



a. Prothorax and elytra metallic. 



a\ Metasternuni, abdomen, and legs testaceous No. 47 t. 



b\ Metasternuni metallic, abdomen and legs testaceous . Nos. 48-50J. 



b. Prothorax or elytra with their outer margins, the former 



sometimes entirely, rut'escent, the legs in part and 



abdomen testaceous Nos. 51-54. 



c. Prothorax and elytra metallic, the abdomen and legs 



black, elytra very coarsely continently punctured 

 [Sokotra] No. 



oo. 



47. Melyris pleuralis. 

 Melyris pleuralis, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvii. p. 149 (1893). 



$ . Ventral segment 5 broadly and rather deeply arcuatc- 

 emarginate ; 6 transversely tumid in the centre in front of 

 the triangular apical notch. 



Vur. ? The metasternal side-pieces rufo-testaceous, the 

 prothorax more coarsely punctured. 



Hab. K. Africa, Somaliland (Revoil, in Mus. Brit.: S) • 

 Ouebbi (Dr. Keller : type), Basso Ganana and Boran 

 Galla (I 7 . Bottego, in Mus. Genoa: vii., viii. 1893: ? ), 

 Af-goi [Benadir] ( V. Casale, in Mus. Genoa: ? ). 



* Including Sokotra Island. One species (No. 70) from Obock is 

 included amongst the N. African and Arabian forms. 



f The Arabian M. hlugi (No. 05), which is similarly coloured, extends 

 to Somaliland and Abyssinia. 



+ The similarly coloured M. parvula (No. 40) and nobilis (No. 37) have 

 been recorded from S. Somaliland, 



