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75. Melyris rostrata. 



Zi/(/iu rostrata, Reiche, Anu. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1857, p. 184, t. 5. fig. 2; 

 Schilsky, Kaf. Europ. xxxiv. No. 87 ( J $) (1897). 



$ . Ventral segments 2-5 with a transverse flavo-ciliate 

 fold or depressed area on each side extending from near the 

 middle to not far from the outer margin, 5 and 6 emarginate 

 at apex, 6 smoother and bi-impressed. 



Hub. Sykia ; Palestine. 



There is a long series of this species in the British Mu- 

 seum and several others at Oxford, some of which are from 

 Jerusalem. Five males seen. Recognizable by the fulvous 

 body and narrow, black, rostrate head, the terminal abdominal 

 segment in 2 also infuscate or black. An allied narrower 

 form from Sinai, with the metasternum infuscate, has been 

 named Zygia sinaila by Pic (1913). 



Section II. 

 Prothoracic carina wanting. 



a. Prothorax convex or yibbous, red, elytra metallic. [Subgen. Pseudo- 

 zygia, Pic] 



76. Melyris aryodi. 

 Pscuclozygia aryodi, Pic, L'Echange, xvii. p. 26 (1901). 



<$ . Ventral segment 5 broadly, deeply emarginate, 6 

 obliquely excavate towards the sides, notched at the tip. * 



Hab. E. Africa, Herbera [type], Somaliland {Greenfield, 

 in Mus. Brit.: <$)• 



A male from Somaliland, received in 1894, seems to be a 

 variety of this species with the black portion of the legs 

 extending to the tarsi, tibise, and tips of the femora. It has 

 the prothorax broad, transversely gibbous, opaque, and 

 densely, shallowly reticulate ; the elytra shorter and less 

 acuminate than in M. (P.) rubricollis (type 2 ), brilliant 

 violaceous, the interspaces very coarsely, irregularly, trans- 

 versely plicate, as well as confusedly punctate, the three 

 costal sinuate and crenulate ; the tarsal claws feebly toothed 

 towards the tip. 



77. Melyris cyanipennis, sp. n. 



Elongate, rather broad, convex, moderately shining, finely 

 pubescent ; fulvous, the head, palpi, outer joints of antennae, 

 sides of scutellum, tar.-al claws, and terminal segment of 

 abdomen in 2 , black, the elytra cyaneous ; the head densely. 



