. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. African and Asiatic Species of Melyris. 161 towards apex, rapidly, obliquely narrowed and excavate ventrally thence to the pointed tip, the apical ventral portion with a strongly raised, prominent median keel terminating proximally in a backwardly-directed acute triangular tooth (figs. 1 a, b) ; tegmen feebly emarginate and fringed with long flavous hairs at tip. Fig. a. b. Melyris viridis, F., <$. Hab. S. and Africa {Mus. Oxon., Mus. Genoa), Cape of Good Hope, Por
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. African and Asiatic Species of Melyris. 161 towards apex, rapidly, obliquely narrowed and excavate ventrally thence to the pointed tip, the apical ventral portion with a strongly raised, prominent median keel terminating proximally in a backwardly-directed acute triangular tooth (figs. 1 a, b) ; tegmen feebly emarginate and fringed with long flavous hairs at tip. Fig. a. b. Melyris viridis, F., <$. Hab. S. and Africa {Mus. Oxon., Mus. Genoa), Cape of Good Hope, Port Nolloth, and Damaraland {Mus. Brit.), Owampo (£ Schinz, sec. Fairmaire). The British Museum possesses a long series of M. viridis { $ ? ) from Cape Town, also four females from Port Nolloth and two males from Damaraland. This insect, the type of the genus Melyris, has the head small and rather elongate ; the antennal joints 4-10 triangular, 6-10 transverse, strongly so in ? ; the tarsal claws feebly toothed at the middle (the tooth being so small that it seems to have been overlooked by Lacordaire) ; and the median lobe of the g aedea^us furnished with a strong backwardly-directed tooth. The body is green, rarely blue, above and beneath, the legs included, pubescent, and not very shining ; the head and pro- thorax are closely, rather coarsely, umbilicate-punctate ; the lateral carina of the prothorax is sinuate, abbreviated pos- teriorly ; the elytra are feebly tricostate, the interspaces with about five rows of crowded coalescent punctures ; and the legs are more elongate than in M. abdominalis and its allies. Two males have been dissected. 2. Melyris laxicornis, sp. n. Oblong-oval, rather dull, green or bluish-green, the elytra and under surface sometimes seneous or aeneo-cupreous, the antennae black with the basal joints more or less reddish ; finely pubescent; the head and prothorax densely punctulate. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images
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