. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 204 Mr. G. C. Champion on the M. festiva, which is a broader insect, with a smoother, brilliantly metallic prothorax. M. pcctoralis is recognizable amongst the allied Abyssinian forms by its elongate shape, greenish or bine colour, with the legs, abdomen, and the greater part of the antennas rufo-testaceons; the short head ; the transverse, laterally rounded, subquadrate, coarsely punctured, sulcate prothorax, with a sharp sinuous lateral carina ; and the elongate, subparallel
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 204 Mr. G. C. Champion on the M. festiva, which is a broader insect, with a smoother, brilliantly metallic prothorax. M. pcctoralis is recognizable amongst the allied Abyssinian forms by its elongate shape, greenish or bine colour, with the legs, abdomen, and the greater part of the antennas rufo-testaceons; the short head ; the transverse, laterally rounded, subquadrate, coarsely punctured, sulcate prothorax, with a sharp sinuous lateral carina ; and the elongate, subparallel, tricostate elytra, the interspaces of which have about four rows of moderately coarse punctures. The tarsal claws are long and sharply toothed beyond the middle. M. hamorrhoidalis seems to have been based upon a blue example of the same species. The length varies from 7-11 mm. A ? from Cheren, Eritrea (D. F. Derchi, 1891), in the Genoa Museum, with the ventral segments black, except along the sides, may represent a new form allied to M. pectoralis? 61. Melyris parallela, Elongate, parallel, the head and prothorax dull, the rest of the surface more shining, almost glabrous above, thickly clothed with pallid hairs beneath, the apex of the abdomen fringed with long blackish hairs in both sexes ; green or bluish-green, the prothorax in two examples cyaneous on the disc and metallic green at the sides, the antentue (except. Melyris parallela, S ? at the tip) and legs (except the infuscate tarsi in one specimen), and the ventral segments wholly in $, or at the sides and apex only in ? , rufo-testaceous ; the head and prothorax closely, rather coarsely umbilicate-punetate. Head rather broad, short; antennas short; prothorax strongly transverse, arcuately narrowed anteriorly, in <$ fully as broad as the elytra, slightly narrower in ? , sulcate down the middle, and depressed before the base, the hind angles. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images
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