230 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



head. The form with a reddish humeral patch and the head 

 black at the base approaches E. {Mixis) cxquisilus, Ab., 

 omwiiulus, Boh., and transvaalansis, Pic (lUll); it was 

 found at Malvern and in Zuhiland. The much smaller size, 

 the very fiue elytral puncturing, and the long apical ap- 

 pendages in c? distinguish E. consobrinus from E. albo- 

 guttatus, the last-mentioned cliaracter and the testaceous 

 antenna^ separating it from E. conjineus. 



17. Ebcms argus. 



cJ. Attalua (Mixis) argus, Ab, de Perrin, Rev. d'Ent. ix. p. 51 

 (1890) '. 

 cJ . " Elytra ... ad apicem laciniata et plicata, ubi plicatura duo- 

 bus angulis instructa, toto apice flavo." \_Ab. de Perrin.'] 



? . Elongate- subtriangular, shining, clothed with sparse 

 ])ubescence intermixed with long erect hairs ; testaceous, 

 the head (a subtriangular patch in front excepted), elytra 

 (except a common oblong-oval patch on the suture below 

 the base, an elongate mark at the sides in line with it, but 

 extending forward to beneath the humeri, a large subtrian- 

 gular spot on the disc near the apex, and a triangular patch 

 at the apex itself, which are flavous or testaceous), meta- 

 sternum, and abdomen in part, black ; the head and pro- 

 thorax very sparsely, minutely, the elytra somewhat closely 

 and strongly, punctate. Head small, bi-impressed in fz'ont ; 

 antennse rather short, serrate. Prothorax transverse, 

 rounded at the sides, the margins explauate and obliquely 

 convergent posteriorly. Elytra elongate, broader at the 

 base than the prothorax, rapidly widening to near the apex, 

 the latter rounded. 



Length 4^ mm. 



Hab. Abyssinia^ {Raffray, ex coll. Sharp). 



There is a ? of this species in the British Museum. The 

 elytral markings resemble those of Hedybius for7nosus, 

 lleiche, except that there is an additional flavous subapical 

 spot on the disc of each elytron. 



18. Ebaus albopartitus, sp. n. 



,$ . Elongate, rather broad, slightly widened posteriorly, 

 the elytra opaque, the rest of the surface shining, clothed 

 with fine pubescence intermixed with long, blackish, bristly 

 liairs ; head black, pale yellow in front, the black basal portion 

 triangularly extending forward on each side anteriorly ; the 

 prothorax rufescent, the expanded lateral and basal margins 



