228 Mr. Cf. C. Champion on 



clothed witli short bristly hairs; testaceous, the prothorax 

 rufcsccut, whitish along the basal margin, the elytra with 

 three large whitish patches — one common, elongate, lauci- 

 form, extending down the anterior half of the suture, and 

 one, somewhat rounded, on the disc of each elytron beyond 

 the middle — the two post-median spots enclosed by a pyri- 

 form nigro-fuscous annulus which extends inward to the 

 suture and narrowly and obliquely forward to the base in 

 one specimen, the seutellum, metasternum, and abdomen 

 slightly iufuscate ; the head and prothorax almost smooth, 

 the elytra closely, very tinely punctured. Head a little 

 narrower than the prothorax, the latter strongly transverse ; 

 antennas subserrate, rather short ; elytra moderately long. 



Length 2^ mm. 



Jlab. SuuAX, AVad Medani {H. H. King: 31. iii. 1920). 

 Two females, found "on cotton." Smaller than the S. 

 African E. exquisitus, Ab., ainaniulus, Boh., etc., the elytra 

 each with a large, pyriform, blackish, post-median annulus, 

 which is continued obliquely forward to the base in one 

 specimen, so as to partly or entirely enclose three large 

 whitish patches. 



15. Ebceus confluens, sp. u. 



? . Elongate, rather narrow, widened posteriorly, shining, 

 the elytra in great part opaque, clothed with fine pubescence 

 intermixed with long, erect, blackish hairs ; the head, the four 

 or five outer joints of the antenme, a median vitta on the 

 prothorax (sometimes I'cduced to a spot at the apex), the 

 seutellum, and metasternum black, the rest of the prothorax 

 rufescent, with the lateral and basal margins yellowish-white, 

 the antennal joints 1-6, the abdomen, and the legs wholly or 

 in part (the intermediate and posterior femora, and some- 

 times the til)ite also, often in part black or iufuscate), testa- 

 ceous ; the elytra with a common oblong or oval spot on the 

 suture below the base, an oblong space on each side of it 

 externally and a subapical patch running forward along the 

 suture, whitish or tlavous, the rest of their surface (a reddish 

 space at the tip excepted) black ; the head and i)rothorax 

 almost smooth, the elytra closely, finely punctulate. Head 

 narrower than the prothorax ; antenme rather short, mode- 

 rately serrate. Prothorax broader than long, obliquely 

 narrowed posteriorly. Elytra moderately long. 



(J . Antenna) much longer, more sharply serrate ; anterior 

 tarsal joint 2 produced over 3, nigro-pectinate at tip; elytra 



