202 Mr. Gr. Cl Champion on the 



under surface being intact in the specimens of M. atripilosa 

 captured by R affray. A large violaceous, blue, or bluish- 

 green, pilose insect, with a transverse, conical, coarsely, 

 closely umbilicate-punctate, villose prothorax, the elytral 

 interspaces coarsely, closely punctate, the abdomen in great 

 part, or entirely, and the legs testaceous, the latter more 

 hairy than in M. abdominalis, F. Reiche's figures show 

 the villose prothorax. 



57. Melyris conicicollis. 

 Melyris conicicollis, Gorli. Ann. Mus. Genova, xviii. p. G01 (1883). 



Hab. Abyssinia. 



The types of this species are females. As the author 

 states, M. conicicollis is separable from his atripilosa ( — cor- 

 rosa, Reiche) by its smaller size, the non pilose under 

 surface of the body, and the more strongly costate elytra : 

 he, however, omitted to note that it had a very much 

 narrower head, and that the long pilosity was sparser on the 

 prothorax and not altogether absent from the head. 



58. Melyris piUcollis, sp. n. 



$ . Elongate, subparallel, rather dull; obscure olivaceous 

 or bluish-green, the antennae (except the inner portions of 

 joints 5-11), legs (the tips of the tarsi excepted), and the 

 ventral segments 1-5 at the sides and along their posterior 

 margin testaceous; sparsely clothed above with decumbent 

 fuscous pubescence, the hairs forming a close fringe along 

 the edges of the elytra, the prothorax with intermixed very 

 long, erect or laterally projecting, blackish hairs, the abdo- 

 men also with long black hairs at the apex, the under surface 

 closely pubescent; the head and prothorax densely punctu- 

 late and coarsely reticulate. Head broad, short ; antennae 

 short. Prothorax broader than long, conical, rapidly nar- 

 rowing from the rather sharp hind angles, deeply sulcate, 

 and with a strongly sinuate lateral carina, the base slightly 

 excavate on each side within the carina. Elytra long, much 

 broader than the prothorax, a little widened posteriorly, 

 rounded at the apex ; rather feebly tricostate, the interspaces 

 aluta eous and each with about four rows of moderately 

 coarse punctures. Tarsal claws long, toothed near the tip. 



Length 85, breadth 3£ mm. 



Hab. Abyssinia, Scioa [Shoa] (Antinori, in Mus. Genoa). 



Two females, captured by Antinori in May 1877, found 

 amongst the extremely long series of M. pectoralis belonging 

 to the Genoa Museum. This species has the prothorax 



