218 Mr. G. C. Champion on 
Ebeomorphus, Pic, L’Echange, xx. p. 28 (1904) [nec Aftalus, subgen. 
Ebeimorphus, Abeille de Perrin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 578 
(1891)]} [type £. ramicornis, Pic]. 
The Ethiopian insects here referred to Ebeus differ from 
their northern allies in the armature or shape of the apices 
of the elytra in the ¢ ; the appendages when fully deve- 
loped (E. bicaudatus) are not like those of the type of the 
genus (11. pedicularius, Schrank), and when absent (£. in- 
ermipennis, Pic, &c.) are replaced by a tumid, smooth, or 
hollow space. In “beus, s.str., 3, there are two appen- 
dages—a small inner one and a large subtriangular, ear- 
shaped, or oblong, apical or outer one, the latter retractile 
and partially closing the terminal cavity. This structure is 
not to be found in the southern forms, nevertheless the 
name Urodactylus, J. Thoms. (= Mizis, Ab.), cannot be 
retained for them. Abeille de Perrin attached too much 
importance to the surface-vestiture—wholly fine and seri- 
ceous in Hbeus, and with intermixed longer hairs or erect 
sete in Miais, a character that cannot. be regarded as 
of generic value. ‘The flabellate or pectinate antenne in 
the g (E. ramicornis, Boh., apricus, Gorh., &c.) is an un- 
important secondary sexual character occurring also in 
Malachius and Hapalochrus. Ebaeus therefore, in the wide 
sense, is separable from Attalus, which has similar anterior 
tarsi in ¢, by the appendiculate or peculiarly-formed apices 
of the elytra in this sex, the head wanting the frontal 
excavation so conspicuous in the males of LHebybius, &c. 
The simple tarsal structure of Anthocomus distinguishes 
that genus from Attalus and Ebeus. 
36 *. 
1 (14). Antenne serrate or subserrate, the joints 
obconic in No. 19, 
2 (7). Prothorax narrowly margined; elytra with 
fine sericeous pubescence, opaque or sub- 
opaque, the apices excavate and also 
lamellate or dentate ; anterior tarsal joint 2 
nigro-pectinate at tip. [EBaus, Er.] 
3 (6). Elytra metallic. 
4 (5). Legs, head, prothorax, scutellum, Xc., testa- 
GOOUS raise ous esses: shee eegereiars erakonete temas Species 1. 
5 (4). Legs, head, prothorax in part, and scutellum 
MIO CAMIG . Metaw cele taste ie reuse Riateratets al siege Species 2. 
* © © only known of Nos. 14, 28-80, 33: these species are not included 
in the Table. 
