240 Mr. G. C. Champion on * 
more robust insect, and is somewhat similarly coloured. 
A co-type of EH. dichrous has been placed in the British 
Museum. 
34, EHbeus apricus. 
2. Anthocomus apricus, Gorh. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) v. p. 78 
(1900) ', 
2. Attalus sublimbatus, Pic, L’Echange, xxiii. p. 131 (1907) ?. 
Var. 3. Lbeomorphus transvaalensis, Pic, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1917, 
p. 235 %. 
Var. 9. Ebeomorphus transvaalensis, var. rufo-apicalis, Pic, Mélanges 
exot.-entom, xxv. p. 3 (1917) *. 
g. Antenne long, pectinate; elytra slightly produced at 
the tip, depressed and transversely grooved before the apex, 
the apical portion tumid ; anterior tarsal joint 2 elongated, 
reaching the apex of 3 above, and nigro-pectinate along the 
outer edge and at the tip; terminal dorsal segment of 
abdomen rather long, narrow, sulcate, testaceous. 
?. Antennze shorter, serrate; terminal dorsal segment 
of abdomen shorter and broader, black. 
Hab. 8. Arxica, Estcourt’ and Frere, Natal, Salisbury, 
Bulawayo? (Mus. Lrit.; Mus. Cape Town), Reenen (Mus. 
Durban), Transvaal * +. 
Numerous males and females seen, including a specimen 
(2) of the var. rufo-apicalis, Pic. The ¢ of E. apricus has 
the testaceous apical marking of the elytra extending 
further forward along the suture and rather broadly con- 
nected externally with the lateral patch. The elytra are 
wholly black in the g named by Pic; the apex only is 
rufo-testaceous in his E. rufo-apicalis. The upper surface 
of the body is sparsely clothed with long hairs intermixed 
with the shorter decumbent pubescence. The Natal speci- 
mens (¢@ 2?) in the Cape Town Museum are labelled 
Anthocomus ramicornis, Boh., which has the prothorax red, 
with a black patch ou the disc. 
39. Hbeus pectinimanus, sp. 0. 
?. Moderately elongate, rather broad, shining, the elytra 
subopaque, finely pubescent, without longer hairs inter- 
mixed ; black, the elytra with a common oval space below 
the base, extending down the suture to the large triangular 
apical patch, and a triangular space at the sides below the 
humeri, testaceous, the antenne in great part and legs (the 
posterior femora, and the others at the base, excepted) also 
