22(3 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



black, bristly hairs ; testaceous, the margins of the pro- 

 thorax and the elytra whitish, the latter with a basal and 

 subapical fascia nigro-violaceous ; the iiead and prothorav 

 almost smooth, the elytra finely punctured and sometimes 

 (in immature specimens) with two raised lines on the disc. 

 Head narrower than the prothorax ; antennae short, rather 

 slender, feebly serrate. Prothorax broad, transverse, rounded 

 at the sides, the margins dilated posteriorly. p]lytra a little 

 wider than the prothorax. Posterior tibiaj feebly curved, 



(^ . Antenna> longer and more strongly serrate ; anterior 

 tarsal joint 2 projecting over the base of 3, nigro-pectinate 

 along the apical margin; posterior tibiaj curved, arcuately 

 dilated at the base within, and nigro-maculate at the apex ; 

 elytra subparallel, the apices excavate and strongly angulato- 

 appcndiculate, as in the same sex of E. hlcaudatus. 



Var. 1. Narrower, the basal half of the head, the front of 

 the prothorax (owing to the covered base of the bead showing 

 through the transparent chitin), and two coalescent triangular 

 spots on the disc at the base, black ; the other characters 

 (J ? ) as in the type. [Rhodesia.] 



Var. 2. The base of the head to a variable extent black, 

 the metallic basal fascia of the elytra hollowed behind, the 

 subapical one somewhat curved, narrow or incomplete ; the 

 other characters (c? ?) as in the type. [Rhodesia and 

 Masai Reserve.] 



Length 3-4 mm. ( c? ? .) 



Hab. S. Africa, Kashitu, north of Broken Hill (H. C. 

 Dollman: xii. 1911-, i. 1915 :<??), and Salisbury, Rhodesia 

 {Dr. Marshall : ix. 1900; ^ ), Port Natal (ex coll. Fry : ^, 

 type), Frere (Mus. Cape Town : ? ) ; E. Africa, Masai 

 Reserve {Capt. Luckman: 4. iii. 1914 : ? ). 



Three S S > four ? ?, the pair from Natal, which are 

 similarly coloured, being taken as the types, the three males 

 agreeing in structure. E. maculipes is the eastern repre- 

 sentative of ?2. bicaudaius, Tlioms. (= bizonaius, Ab.), 

 differing from it in the shape of the posterior tibia? of the ^ ; 

 the elytral appendages are similarly shaped in the two 

 species. 



12. Ebceus ridens. 



Attains ridens, Gorli. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vii. p. 350 (c^) 

 (1901)'. 



^ . Anterior tarsal joint 2 prolonged over 3, nigro- 

 pectinate at the tip ; intermediate tibiie simple ; elytra 



