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We present near-IR (J,H,Ks) photometry for 27 of the 28 candidate HerbigAe/Be stars in the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds identified via the EROS1and EROS2 surveys as well as near-contemporaneous optical (H-alpha)spectroscopy for 21 of these 28 candidates. Our observations extend previousefforts to determine the evolutionary status of these objects. We compare theIR brightness and colors of a subset of our sample with archival ground-basedIR data and find evidence of statistically significant photometric differencesfor ELHC 5, 7, 12, 18, and 21 in one or more filter. In all cases, thesenear-IR photometric variations exhibit a grey color as compared to earlierepoch data. The ~1 magnitude IR brightening and minimal change in the H-alphaemission strength we observe in ELHC 7 is consistent with previous claims thatit is a UX Ori type HAe/Be star, which is occasionally obscurred by dustclouds. We also detect a ~1 magnitude IR brightening of ELHC 12, but findlittle evidence of a similar large-scale change in its H-alpha line strength,suggesting that its behavior could also be caused by a UX Ori-like event. The~0.5 magnitude IR variability we observe for ELHC 21, which also exhibitedlittle evidence of a change in its H-alpha emission strength, could conceivablybe caused by a major recent enhancement in the density of the inner disk regionof a classical Be star. We also report the first near-IR photometry for twoESHC stars and the first H-alpha spectroscopy for one ELHC and five ESHC stars.Although H-alpha emission is detected in all of these new observations, they donot exhibit a strong near-IR excess. It is therefore possible that many ofthese objects may be classical Be stars rather than Herbig Ae/Be stars.

Near-Contemporaneous Optical Spectroscopic and Infrared Photometric Observations of Candidate Herbig Ae/Be Stars in the Magellanic Clouds