234 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



of the same sex from Bedford and Malvern ; two ? ? from 

 Rhodesia are doubtless referable to the variety named by 

 Pic. This insect has the general coloration of K. ridenSj 

 Gorh., except that the head is partly or wholly black ; the 

 basal black patch on each elytron is large and reache^j 

 the suture, and the subapical oue arcuate, showing a 

 tendency to form au incomplete annulus in oue of the two 

 females from George. 



23. Ebcius ephippiaius, sp. n. 



$ . Elongate, widened posteriorly, the elytra opaque, the 

 rest of the surface shining, finely pubescent, with longer 

 semierect hairs intermixed ; black, the autenual joints 1-6, 

 prothorax (a transverse dark space in front and the whitish 

 lateral margins excepted^, tarsi, and tibi» (the posterior pair 

 at the apex only), and the anterior and intermediate femora 

 in part, testaceous ; the elytra each with a complete, oblique, 

 suturally-widened, ante-median fascia^ and a common oval 

 spot before the apex (the latter connected with a testaceous 

 spot at the sutural angle), whitish : the head and prothorax 

 almost smooth, the elytra alutaceous and excessively minutely 

 punctate. Head bi-im pressed in front ; antennae short, 

 slender, subserrate. Prothorax transverse, small, convex, 

 rounded, at the sides^ much narrowed behind, the lateral 

 margins explauate posteriorly. Elytra rather long, becoming 

 convex towards the apex. Legs slender; posterior tibiae 

 curved. 



Length 2| mm. 



Hab. S. Africa, Duubrody (Mus. Cape Town). 



One ? , captured iu Decemljer 1912 on Mimosa. A 

 sharply maculate form with the elytra marked very much as 

 iu the Natal insect named bj Pic £. {Anthonomus) martini, 

 the latter having an opaque, broader, and more narrowly 

 margined prothorax. The variable E. dtinbrodensi* (ante 

 No. 5), specimens of wLich are before me, is also somewhat 

 similar. Till the J is found, E. ephippiatus cannot be 

 located with certaiutv. 



)ii. Ebteus bonnejoti. 



? Attaius (Jftrw) lofinefon'. He, Melanges eiot-entoin. xiv. p. 3 ($ ) 

 (1917). 



Hab. S. Africa, Transvaal {type of Pic), Sterkfontein 

 {H. P. Thomasstt. in Mus. BrU. : $ ), Howick, Natal (J. Cre- 

 goe, in Mus. Durban : ^ ). 



