240 :^^l•. G. C. Champion on 



more robust insect, and is somewhat similaily coloured. 

 A co-type of E. dichrous has lieeii placed iu the Jiritish 

 Museum. 



34. Kbaus apriciis. 



$. Anthocomus apricus, Gorh. Auu. & Mag. Nat, Ilist. (7) v. p. 78 



(1900) '. 

 9- Attahia siihlimhatus, Pic, L'Echang-e, xxiii. p. IHl (U)07) -. 

 Var. S- Elxeomor2)hns tnnisvaalensis , I'ic, lUill. Soc. Knt. Fr. Iitl7, 



p. 235 ^ 

 Var. 9 . Ebceovinrphns transvaalensis, var. rufo-upicalis, Pic, Melanges 



exot.-entom. xxv. p. 3 (1917)*. 



J. Antennae long, pectinate; elytra slightly produced at 

 the tip, depressed and transversely grooved before the apex, 

 the ai)ical portion tumid; anterior tarsal joint 2 elongated, 

 reaching the apex of 3 above, and nigro-pectiuate along the 

 outer edge and at the tip ; terminal dorsal segment of 

 abdomen rather long, narrow, sulcatc, testaceous. 



?. Antennae shorter, serrate; terminal dorsal segment 

 of abdomen shorter and broader, black. 



Hah. S.Africa, Estcourt^ and Frere, Natal, Salisbury, 

 Bulawayo ^ {Mus. Brit.; Mus. Cape Town), Reenen {Mus. 

 J f urban). Transvaal ^ ^ 



Numerous males and females seen, including a specimen 

 (?) of the var. rufo-apicalis, Pic. The ^ of E. apricus has 

 the testaceous apical marking of the elytra extending 

 further forward along the suture and rather broadly con- 

 nected externally with the lateral patch. The elytra are 

 wholly black in the <^ named by Pic; the apex onlv is 

 rufo-testaceons in his E. rufo-apicalis. The upper surface 

 of the body is sparsely clothed with long hairs intermixed 

 with the shorter decumbent pubescence. The Natal speci- 

 mens (c? ?) in the Cape Town Museum are labelled 

 Anthocomus raniicor7ds, Boh., which has the prothorax red, 

 with a black patch on the disc. 



35. Ebceus pectinimanns, sp. n, 



? . ^loderately elongate, rather broad, shining,'the elytra 

 subopaque, finely pubescent, without hunger hairs inter- 

 mixed ; black, the elytra with a common oval space below 

 the base, extending down the suture to the large triangular 

 apical patcli, and a triangular space at the sides below the 

 humeri, testaceous, the antennie iu great part and legs (the 

 posterior femora, and the others at the base, excepted) also 



