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sternum black, the scutellum piceous, the elytra nigro- 

 caeruleous, the apex and a triangular lateral patch (these 

 markings connected along the outer margin) excepted ; the 

 head and prothorax almost smooth, the elytra closely 

 strongly punctured. Head broad, tumid between the eyes 

 and on the vertex, the latter depressed in the middle ; 

 antennae long, stout, strongly pectinate. Prothorax broader 

 than long, wider than the head, convex, rounded at the sides, 

 much narrowed behind. Elytra widened to about the 

 middle and arcuately narrowed thence to the apex, which is 

 simply hollowed within, the disc obliquely depressed near 

 the suture beloAV the base, the apical portion convex. 

 Penultimate dorsal abdominal segment (hypopygium) arcu- 

 ately excavate at the base, strongly trilobate distally, the 

 median lobe longer than the others, curved downward, 

 excavate, and spoon-shaped at the tip ; terminal dorsal seg- 

 ment (pygidiumj subconical, convex, transversely hollowed 

 at the base ; terminal ventral segment furnished with two 

 strong hooked processes. Legs long, stout ; anterior tarsal 

 joints 1 and 2 much thickened, 2 broad, nigro-pectinate 

 along the apical margin, extending over the base of 3 ; 

 posterior tibiae sinuate. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hab. E. Africa, Samburu (C. S. Betton : x.-xi. 1896). 



One ^, in such rigid condition (possibly due to immersion 

 in alcohol) that the structure ol^ the terminal segments of 

 the abdomen cannot be examined without maceration. A 

 broad robust form not unlike E.rossi, with the basal portion 

 of the head tumid, the antennse pectinate, the prothorax 

 moderately transverse and much narrowed behind, the elytra 

 convex beyond the middle and simple at the tip, blue, 

 except at the sides and apex, the hypopygium trilobate, &c. 

 The species seems to be better placed under Ebceus than in 

 Attains. 



38. Ebceus lineatus, sp. n. 



S . Moderately elongate, rather broad, shining, sparsely 

 finely pubescent ; testaceous, the basal half of the head, eyes, 

 a very broad patch on the disc of the prothorax (leaving the 

 sides and basal margin only pale), scutellum, two sinuous 

 stripes on each elytron (sublateral and subsutural, extending 

 from the base to the apical excavation), metasternum, 

 abdomen, and the bases of the posterior tarsi black, the 

 suture and outer margin of the elytra, and the pallid dorsal 



