the Afriean Species of Ebeus. 227 
transversely excavate and plicate at the tip, the apices sub- 
angularly produced, the suture of each elytron bearing a 
long, compressed appendage which is furnished with a down- 
wardly-eurved, hook-like pencil of hairs at the apex, and 
also with a small angular prominence before the angle. 
Hab. Ruopesia, Old Umtali in Mashonaland’ (Dr. 
Marshall). 
There are two g ¢ and one ? of this species in the British 
Museum. It may be known from £. (Mizis) rufithoraz, Pic, 
and other very similarly coloured insects by the red head 
and under surface, and the elongate appendages of the 
elytra, these being nearly as long as in the same sex of 
E. bicaudatus, Thoms. The subapical black patch is broad, 
transverse, and subcresecentiform. Gorham compares his 
insect with Philhedonus (Anthocomus) felix, which has simple 
4-jointed anterior tarsi in ¢. 
13. Ebeus exquisitus. 
Attalus (Mixis) eaquisitus, Ab. de Perrin, Rey. d’Ent, xix. pp. 164, 
176 (1900) (3 2)? 
6. Antenne short, subserrate; anterior tarsal joint 2 
extending over 3 above, nigro-pectinate at tip; elytra 
deeply excavate at the apex, the excavation preceded by the 
flattened, apically-constricted, pointed, porrect appendage 
arising from the suture of each elytron, the sutural angle 
somewhat pointed as seen from above, raised and subfolia- 
ceous as seen in profile. 
Hab. 8. Arrica, Hebron, near Kimberley’ (¢ypes of 
Abeille de Perrin), Salisbury, Bulawayo, and Umfuli River 
(Dr. Marshall), Caia, Zambesi (H. Swale), Mwengwa and 
Namwala, Rhodesia, Livingstone, Zambesi (H. C. Dollman). 
The long series of this species before me includes several 
males. A rufo-testaceous insect; the elytra subopaque, 
with a small triangular spot on each side of the scutellum, 
and a common, irregular, X- or H-shaped mark extending 
across the disc to near the outer margin, black, the apex 
and a humeral patch red, and the rest of the surface (like 
the basal margin of the prothorax) whitish. The ¢ type 
has been lent me by Dr. Péringuey. 
EL. (Mixis) michaelseni, Pic (1914), from Omaruru, S.W. 
Africa, is an allied form. 
14. Ebeus sudanicus, sp. n. 
9. Elongate, widened posteriorly, shining, sparsely 
