^74 Transactions South African Pliilosoiohical Society. [vol. xii. 



groove, and the lateral edges are rounded; elytra plane, as broad at 

 the base as the prothorax, feebly granulose and obsoletely striate ; 

 the eighth stria does not reach the humeral part, and the apical part 

 is clothed with small greyish setse ; pygidium opaque, plicate, 

 inflexed beneath ; abdomen very short ; anterior tibiae elongate, 

 incurved, posterior ones dilated at tip, their tarsi very broad and 

 densely ciliate. 



Female : Head semicircular, clypeus short, bi-dentate at tip, 

 ■divided from the frontal part by a somewhat strong carina, the 

 latter part provided with a small and very short carina, the vertex 

 €nds in a rudimentary lamina sinuate in the centre ; prothorax less 

 ■excavate than in the male, not excavate in front ; anterior tibiae 

 short ; posterior tarsi narrower and less densely ciliate. 



This species, which inhabits South Africa, is closely allied to 

 P. loittei, Har., from which it differs especially in the cephalic 

 lamina not being quadri-spinose, and the clypeal tooth is less 

 sharp and more distinctly ' separated.' 



Length 8-10 mm." 



This species is compared by Lansberge to P. luhitei, which I con- 

 sider the same as P. adspersipennis, &c., and it will probably prove 

 to be identical with the last-named species, because the main dis- 

 tinctive character indicated by Lansberge, i.e., the non-quadri-spinose 

 'Cephalic lamina in the male occurs also in the great development of 

 P. adspersipennis, P. congenitiis, and P. tarsatus. 



Hah. South Africa. 



MILICHUS, n. gen. 



Buccal organs and general facies of Onthophagus, but it is dis- 

 tinguished by the presence of a clypeal transverse carina running 

 parallel to the margin of the clypeus, and by the shape of the meta- 

 sternum which is not impressed transversely at apex near the suture 

 with the mesosternum, the latter is almost invisible in the anterior 

 part, and is sub-carinate in the middle, owing to the sides being 

 compressed laterally in front. 



MiLICHUS APICALIS, Fiihr., 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 297. 



Bronze, shining, very briefly pubescent, elytra a little darker 

 than the head and prothorax and having on each side two basal 

 elongate flavescent maculae on the third and fifth intervals respec- 



