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less widened posteriorly, transversely excavate and obliquely, 
bilamellately produced at the tip, the lower lamella forming 
a hook-like upward dilatation of the sutural angle. 
Var.? havilandi, n.—Antennal joint 1 infuscate above ; 
prothorax with a broad anteriorly-dilated black median vitta; 
elytra opaque, black, with four sharply-defined white spots— 
two on the suture and one on each lateral margin. ( ?.) 
Length 24-3 mm. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. N.W. Ruopesia, Kashitu, N. of Broken Hill [vi., 
vii. 1915], Mwengwa [vil., viii. 1913, v. 1914] (H.C. Doll- 
man: type); Navan, Estcourt (Haviland, in Mus. Cape 
Bown: 9 var.)’ 
Two ¢ 6, five? 2, three with complete vitta on the pro- 
thorax and the legs (the anterior pair excepted) partly black. 
The Natal form is perhaps specifically distinct. Smaller, 
narrower, and less robust than LZ. alboguttatus, the apices of 
the elytra differently shaped in g ; the appendages, too, 
are short, compared with those of 2. consobrinus, Boh. 
16. Ebeus consubrinus. 
Q. Malachius consobrinus, Boh, Ins. Caffr. i. 2, p. 464 (1851) 1. 
6. Smaller, narrower, and less robust than EZ. alboguttatus, 
the general coloration similar, except that the antennz are 
testaceous, the tips of the posterior tibie are sometimes 
infuscate, and the subapical black fascia of the elytra is not 
emarginate on the middle of the disc behind ; elytra closely, 
minutely punctate, transversely excavate at the tip, the 
suture of each of them bearing a very long, narrow, pointed, 
downwardly-curved appendage towards the apex and a 
slender dentiform process above the apical angle; legs 
slender; anterior tarsal joint 2 nigro-pectinate at the tip. 
¢. Antenne shorter. 
Var. Head with the base only black ; the elytra with the 
elongate basal portion of the black mesially-constricted 
dorsal stripe narrower, leaving a rufo-testaceous humeral 
patch, the former sometimes completely separated from the 
subapical fascia. 
Length 22-3 mm. 
Hab. 8, Arrica, Chirinda, Mashonaland (Dr. Marshall: 
x1. 1901: ¢), Malvern, Natal (Mus. Durban: 8 2), Mfon- 
gosi, Zululand (Mus. Cape Town: ¢ ), Gariep River'. 
Various specimens from the above-quoted localities seem 
to be referable to EL. consobrinus, Boh., the type ( ¢ ) of which, 
captured in the Gariep River district, has a rufo-testaceous 
