the African Sjiedcs of Eba?iis. 229 



less widcMU'd posteriorly, transversely excavate and obliquely, 

 bilaniellately produced at the tip, the lower lamella forming 

 a hook-like upward dilatation of the sutural angle. 



Var.? havilandi, n. — Antenna! joint 1 infuscate above; 

 j)rotliorax N\ith a broad anteriorly-dilated black median vitta; 

 elytra opacjue, black, with four sliarply-delincd white spots — 

 two on the suture and one on each lateral margin. ( ? .) 



Length 2^-3 mm. (c? ? .) 



Hub. N.W. Rhodesia, Kashitu, N. of Broken Hill [vi., 

 vii. 1915], Mwengwa [vii.,viii. 1913, v. 1914] [H. C. Uoll- 

 junn: type); Natal, Estcourt {Haviland, in Mus. Cape 

 'Town : ? , var.). 



Two ^ S > fi^'6 ? ? , three with complete vitta on the pro- 

 thorax and the legs (the anterior pair excepted) partly black. 

 The Natal form is perhaps specitically distinct. Smaller, 

 narrower, and less robust than E. alboguttatus, the apices of 

 the elytra differently shaped in ,S ; the appendages, too, 

 are short, compared w ith those of E. cunsohnnus, Boh. 



16. Ebceus consubrinus. 

 $ . Malachiits consohrinus, Boh. lus. Caffr. i. 2, p. 464 (1851) ^ 



(J . Smaller, narrower, and less robust than£. alboguttatus, 

 the general coloration similar, except that the antennae are 

 testaceous, tlie tips of the posterior tibise are sometimes 

 infuscate, and the subapical black fascia of the elytra is not 

 emarginate on the middle of the disc behind; elytra closely, 

 minutely punctate, transversely excavate at the tip, the 

 suture of each of them bearing a very long, narrow, pointed, 

 downwardly-curved appendage towards the apex and a 

 slender dentiform process above the apical angle ; legs 

 slender ; anterior tarsal joint 2 nigro-pectiuate at the tip. 



? . Antenna; shorter. 



Var. Head with the base only black ; the elytra with the 

 elongate basal portion of the black mesially-coustrictcd 

 dorsal stripe narrower, leaving a rufo-testaceous humeral 

 patch, the former sometimes completely separated from the 

 subapical fascia. 



Length 2|-3 mm. 



Hub. S.Africa, Chirinda, ^Slashonaland [Dr. Marshall: 

 xi. 1901 : S ), ^lalvern, Natal {Mus. Durban : J ? ), Mfon- 

 gosi, Zululand [Mus. Cape Toirn : ? ), Gariep l{iver^ 



Various specimens from the above-quoted localities seem 

 to be referable to E. consobrinua, Bob., the type (?) of which, 

 captured in the Gariep River (li5>trict, has a rufo-tcstaceous 



