40 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



District, E. Africa; E. zonarius (No. 27, type from 

 Abyssinia), ? $ from Salisbury and Marzoe^ Mashonaland, 

 similar to tlie ? type. ^ 



9 [a) . Ebceus sexdentatus, sp. n. 



(^ . Moderately elongate, rather broad, widened posteriorly, 

 very shining, clothed with semierect bristly hairs inter- 

 mixed with fine scattered pubescence ; black, the anterior 

 half of the head, antennae (the nigro-maculate inner portion 

 of joints 4-11 excepted), protborax (a broad wedge-shaped 

 discoidal patch excepted), the apical excavation and processes 

 of the elyti a, and legs (a black spot at the tip of the posterior 

 tibise excepted) testaceous or rufo-testaceous ; the elytra 

 with a streak extending down the sides before the middle, 

 another streak opposite to it on the suture (extending back- 

 ward along the sutural margin), and a rounded spot on the 

 disc before the tip, whitish ; the elytra finely punctured, the 

 head and prothorax much smoother. Head narrower than 

 the prothorax ; antennae rather stout, moderately long, 

 sharply serrate. Prothorax transverse, rounded at the sides. 

 Elytra with a deep transverse excavation at the tip, the 

 margins of the cavity tumid, the outer one armed with a 

 short tooth, the suture bearing an elongate stout appendage 

 and a straight tooth behind it at the apex, the upper one 

 with a downwardly-curved pencil of matted hairs at the tip 

 (fig. 6). Anterior tarsal joint 2 extending over the base 

 of 3 and nigro-pectinate along the oblique outer edge. 

 Posterior tibise curved. 



? . Antennse shorter and more slender ; the elytra with 

 a common, triangular, testaceous apical patch, connected 

 along the suture with the antemedian whitish sutural 

 streak, the rounded subapical spot wanting, the marginal 

 streak as in ^ . 



Length 3-3 1 mm. 



Hab. E. Africa, Kabete {H. E. Box : iii., iv. 1922). 



One (^ , three ? $ , the sexes, as in various species of 

 H?jpebceus, having the elytra differently maculate at the apex. 

 Near the S. and E. African E. crassicauda, Champ., the 

 antennae of the ^ maculate and more strongly serrate, the 

 prothorax vittate on the disc, the elytra otherwise marked. 



10 (a). EbcBus denticorniSy sp. n. 



^ . Rather broad, widened posteriorly, shining ; sparsely 

 clothed with fine pubescence intermixed with scattered, erect, 



