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THE ANNALS 



MAGAZIiNE OF NATURAL HISTOKY. 



[NINTH SERIES.] 

 No. 51. MARCH 1922. 



XX \^. — The Africa7i Species of El)?eus, E7'., ivith an Account 

 of their accessory ^-cliaracters IColeoptera^. By G. C. 

 Champion, F.Z.S. 



The present paper, in continuation of the one on Hedybius 

 and its allies published in the last volume of this Magazine 

 (pp. 449-494), is based upon a study of the African Ebcei 

 belonging to the Cape Town and Durban Museums and tlie 

 British ^Museum in London. With two exceptions, they are 

 all from South or East Africa^ and about half of them are 

 treated as new, the remainder having been described by 

 Boheman, J. Thomson, Abeille de Perrin, Gorham, and Pic, 

 and placed by them under various generic names *. 



Eb.eus. 



Ehceus, Erichson, Eutomograpbien, p. 113 (1840) [type E. pedicu- 



larius, Schrauk]. 

 Urodactylus, J. Thomson, Archives Ent. ii. p. 80 (1858) [type U. bi- 



caiidatus, Thouis.]. 

 Attains, Er., subgen. Mivis, Abeille de Perrin, Kev. d'Ent. ix. p. 51 



(1890) ; Anu. Soc. Ect. Fr. 18'J0, p. 407 (1891) [type Elxeus hystrix, 



Ab.]. 



* The East Afi-ican forms, one of which is refei'ied to Ebceus, named 

 by Pic in 1919, " pour preucli'e date,"' are not recognisable from tlie brief 

 diagnoses given. Ant/iocomus coriaccus, Gorh. (1905), is a Dasytid. 



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