42 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



Boh., the elytra bluish-black, with four sharply-defined oval 

 whitish spots — two on the suture and one on each lateral 

 margin before the middle. There is an allied unnamed form 

 (?) in the ^Cape Town Museum. 



21 («). Ebmus rossi, sp. n. 



(^ . Moderately elongate, broad, robust^ shining, clothed 

 with fine pubescence intermixed with scattered, erect, 

 blackish, bristly hairs ; testaceous, the basal half of the head, 

 a broad, mesially-narrowed stripe extending down each 

 elytron from the base to far beyond the middle and widened 

 into a curved fascia posteriorly (leaving a common lanciform 

 patch along the suture and an oblong lateral patch 

 testaceous), and the metasternum black or bluish-black, 

 the basal margin of the prothorax flavescent ; the head 

 closely, extremely minutely, the elytra finely conspicuoush-, 

 punctured, the prothorax almost smooth. Head broad, 

 narrower than the prothorax ; antennse moderately long, 

 serrate. Prothorax transverse, rounded at the sides, which 

 are explanate and transparent towards the base. Elytra 

 widening to beyond the middle and arcuately narrowed 

 thence to the apex ; each with a large, transverse, tumid, 

 oval area at the tip, the elevated space simply concave 

 within and slightly curving forwards at the suture. Legs 

 rather stout; anterior tarsal joint 2 with a claw-like, apically 

 nigro-pectinate extension over 3 above ; intermediate tibiae 

 subarcuately dilated near the base within ; posterior tibiae 

 arcuate. 



Length 4J mm. 



Had. S. Africa, Johannesberg {Ross, ex coll. Distant). 



One (^ . Near E.simoni, Ab., and HJ. sinuatipes. Champ., 

 differing from both in the longitudinally-confluent bluish- 

 black elytral markings, the serrate antennae, and the form 

 of the apices of the wing-cases in the ,$ . The dark 

 markings on the elytra extend to the outer margin, but 

 they do not quite reach the suture. 



37. Ebceus fortis, sp. n. 



(^ . Robust, broad, elongate, shining, clothed with fine 

 ])ubescence intermixed with erect bristly hairs ; testaceous, 

 the antennal joints 4-11 in part or entirely, eyes, and meta- 



