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Mr. G. C. Champion on the 



65. Melyris klugi. 



Zyqia klugi, Baudi, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1878, p. 315 ( ^) ] ; Schilsky, 



Kaf. Europ. xxxiv. No. 9] ( d $ ) (1897) \ 

 Melyris bicolor, Gorb. Ann. Mus. Genova, xviii. p. 600 (1883) (nee 



Fabr.) 3 . 

 Melyris fulvipes, King, in litfc. (nee Reicbe). 



$ . Anterior and intermediate trochanters each with a 

 matted pencil of stiff fuscous hairs at the base beneath ; 

 intermediate tibiae feebly curved ; intermediate tarsi (fig. 5) 

 with a slender sharp spur near the base of the first joint 

 beneath ; ventral segment 5 transversely excavate in the 

 centre, broadly hollowed at the apex, 6 smoother, short, exca- 

 vate on each side of the convex median portion, narrowly 

 notched at tip ; median lobe of zedeagus slightly curved and 

 gradually narrowed distally, the apex blunt ; tegmen set 

 with pallid hairs at tip. 



Fiff. 5. 



Melyris klugi, Baudi, S • 



? . Antennas shorter than in ^ ; coxse and tarsi simple ; 

 ventral segment 5 holloued down the middle, 6 cleft, black. 



Var. ? The metasternum metallic ( $ $ ) . 



Hub. Arabia ' 23 {Mus. Oxon.), Aden, Lahej, Jeddah, El 

 Hedjaz, Yemen, Muscat {Mus. Brit., Mus. Genoa), La Ache 

 [? = Lahej] (Dabbene, in Mus. Oxon.); Somaliland, Aruc 

 {Mus. Genoa); Abyssinia 23 (Raffray,in Mus. Brit.), Scioa 

 [Shoa], Massaua (Mus. Genoa) ; ? Egypt 23 . 



A common insect on the Arabian border of the Red Sea, 

 extending to Somaliland and Abyssinia, the sexes being in 

 about equal numbers in the fifty examples of it in the 

 British Museum. Baudi and Schilsky distinguished M. klugi 

 from the similarly coloured M. bicolor, Fabr., from Egypt, 

 &c. ; by the non-plicate ventral segments 3-5 in <$ (these 

 segments in the <$ $ of 31. bicolor, versicolor, oblonga, and 

 rostrata having a transverse, linear, flavo-ciliate fold or 

 depression on each side) ; but they overlooked the spur on 



