the African Species of Ebajus. '2.'6'6 



21. Eb(EUS sinuatipes, sp. n. 



Elonf^atc, rather broad, widened posteriorly, shining, the 

 elytra siiljopaijue, s[)arsel3'^, finely pubescent with scattered, 

 erect, black, bristly hairs iutcrniixcd; ruf'o-testaeeous, tlie 

 head (the anterior margin excc[)ie(l) and metastcrnum black, 

 the margins of the prothorax whitish, the elytra flavous, 

 each with two larne black patches — the basal one trans- 

 versely subquadrate, the su])apical one broad, arcuate, 

 neither reaching the suture, but both extending to the outer 

 margin; the head and prothorax sparsely, minutely, the 

 elytra densely, finely punctate. Head, antennae, prothorax, 

 etc., as in E. s'lDioid, Ab. 



c? . Anterior tar.sal joint 2 extending over 3 above, uigro- 

 pectinate at ti[) ; intermediate til)iie sinuate within, arcuatcly 

 dilated near the base ; elytra each with a tumid, oblique, 

 sinuate, concave area at the apex, the swollen portion pre- 

 ceded by a short transverse groove extending across the 

 suture, the apices narrowly truncate. 



Length 3i-3f mm. (c? ? •) 



Hab. S. Africa, Melsetter, Mashonaland [type], and 

 Upper Tongaat, Barwon, Natal {l>r. Marshall: x., xii. 1901). 



One pair. Very like E. ridens, Gorh., and E. inermipenuis. 

 Pic; the elytral apices of the $ are tumid and without 

 appendages as in the latter, and the intermediate tibicC in 

 the same sex are sinuate within, l)ut less strongly so than 

 in E, simojii, Ab. 



22. Ebceus rufithorax. 

 Attalus {Mixis) nifithorax, Pic, L'Ecliange, xx. p. 33 (d' § ) (1904) '. 



S . Head black (as in ? ) ; antennae moderately long, 

 feebly serrate ; anterior tarsal joint 2 extended over 3 above, 

 nigro-pectinate at tip; intermediate tibiae simple; elytra 

 truncate and transversely excavate at the apex, the depres- 

 sion limited exteriorly by a stout conical tubercle. 



Var.? Head broadly testaceous in front ( ? ). 



Attalus {Mir is) nifithorax, var. rItoJvsiana, Pic, op. cit. xxiii. p. 131 

 (?) (1907)2. 



Hab. S. Africa, Dunbrody* [Mas. Cape Town, Mas. Brit.), 

 George, Cape Colony [Dr. Braans: ? ), Bedford, Cape 

 Colony, and Malvern, Natal [Mas. Durban), ^Iwengwa, 

 Rhodesia^ [H. C. Dollman: 15. iv. 1914: var., ? ). 



Four c? (? from Duubrody are before mc, as well as others 

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