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and the outer joints of the antenne, very slightly infuscate ; 
the legs testaceous, the intermediate femora at the base, and 
the posterior femora with the basal half or more, black; legs 
more slender. 
Length 3-4 mm. 
Hab. Ruovesta, Salisbury (Mus. Cape Town : 23. ix. 1915; « 
Dr. Marshall: x. 1900 ; var.). 
Four 2 9°, the two larger ones selected as the types. Not 
unlike #. (Attalus) ridens, Gorh. The elytra leas shining 
and with the black subapical patch transverse, instead of 
arcuate. J. nigrofemoratus, the § of which has pectinate 
antenne, is also somewhat similarly marked, except that it 
has the post-median spot large and rounded. Inthe Durban 
Museum there is a small 9, taken at Upper Tongaat in 
1901, with the head, antennze, and legs black, and the sub- 
apical mark very large and rounded, that may belong to the 
same species. 
31. Ebeus cavicauda, sp. n. 
3d. Moderately elongate, rather broad, the elytra opaque, 
the rest of the surface shining, very finely pubescent with 
longer semierect hairs intermixed ; the eyes, base of the 
head, scutellum, metasternum, and abdomen in great part, 
black, the antennze, the rest of the head, prothorax, and legs 
wholly testaceous, the elytra olive-green, with the excavated 
apices black ; the head and prothorax almost smooth, the 
elytra alutaceous and extremely minutely punctate. Head 
rather broad, flattened in front; antenne long, strongly 
dentate from joint 4 onward. Prothorax transverse, ex- 
planate and strongly rounded at the sides, much narrowed 
posteriorly, at the middle distinctly wider than the base of 
the elytra. Elytra moderately long, parallel at the base 
and somewhat arcuately widened posteriorly, the apices 
rather broadly produced, deeply, transversely excavate, sepa- 
rately rounded at the tip, the cavity smooth and shining 
within. Anterior tarsal joint 2 rather long, extending over 
3 above, nigro-pectinate along the oblique apical margin; 
posterior tibize strongly bisinuate. 
Length 3 mm. 
Hab. S. Arrica, Grahamstown (O'Neil, in Mus. Cape 
Town). 
Onemale. Separable from E. conigerus, 8 (ante No. 1), 
by the olive-green opaque elytra, the longer, dentate, testa- 
ceous antenna, the relatively broader, explanate prothorax, 
