624 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



Gen. MILICHUS, Catal. L, p. 274. 



Milichus rhodesianus, Pering., 



Plate XL VIII., figs. 16, 17, 



Ann. S. Afric. Mus., iii., 1904, p. 2^2. 



Male : Light bronze, briefly pubescent, not much shiny, macu- 

 lated irregularly with darker bronze on the prothorax, which has in 

 addition three bright shiny patches in the anterior part at the top of 

 the declivity ; the elytra are occasionally testaceous, irregularly 

 tesselated with bronze, antennal club flavescent ; clypeus produced 

 diagonally laterally, deeply and broadly emarginate in front with 

 the angles of the emargination distinct, but not sharply reflexed ; the 

 first clypeal carina is triangular, sharply raised, and the median 

 longitudinal keel is very short and does not connect the first clypeal 

 one with the highly raised, sub-arcuate second clypeal carina which 

 overhangs slightly the clypeus, and reaches on each side the inner 

 angle of the genae, the anterior margin of which is also carinate, but 

 not as highly, and along the base of the frontal part there is an 

 interrupted, slightly raised line with occasionally a minute tubercle 

 in the centre above it ; prothorax declivous in front in the male, not 

 carinate above the declivity but having on each side of it a depres- 

 sion edged by a short transverse ridge set above the shiny space, it 

 is not much ampliated laterally, although it is broader than long, the 

 hind angles are rounded, the basal margin has no fold ; it is covered 

 in the median discoid al part by deep, round punctures, the slightly 

 raised intervals of which are very narrow, these punctures are 

 slightly wider on the sides than on the disk ; elytra longer than 

 the prothorax and about equally broad, plainly striate with the 

 intervals nearly plane and filled with closely-set granules ; pygidium 

 nearly as broad as long, deeply and closely punctate, the intervals 

 separating the punctures forming a sort of reticulation near the 

 basal part ; metasternum very closely punctate ; inner spur of 

 anterior tibiae nearly straight. 



This species differs from M. apicalis, Fahr. chiefly by the more 

 highly raised and retuse prothorax. 



Length 6-7 mm. ; width 4-4-|- mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe). 



Milichus apicalis, Fahr., Catal. i., p. 274. 



This species has a very wide range in Africa. d'Orbigny records 

 it from the Galla country, British East Africa, Old Calabar, French 

 Congo, and Angola. I have it from Natal and Ovampoland. 



