142 Psyche [Sept. -Dec. 
palps reddish. The vertex is rather coarsely and thickly punc- 
tured and beset with hairs. Elytra strongly elevated and 
rounded, both in longitudinal and transverse directions, their 
side margins invisible from above, finely and sparsely punc- 
tured, rather strongly shining. The elytra are bronze-black 
except for the scapular and apical margins, which are pale. 
Legs reddish with exception of distal portions of the femora, 
which are fuscous. Under surface, including elytral epipleurse, 
red-brown, the metasternum and median area of first abdominal 
segment black. Prosternal process exceptionally broad. Length 
$y 2 mm. 
Milichius , the transliteration of Gemminger and Harold, has 
been in vogue for this genus but the rules of priority would 
demand retention of the name as proposed by Gerstaecker. The 
occurrence of Meilichius in India, while not surprising, is noted 
here for the first time. Arrow did not find any specimens of the 
genus in the material studied by him and reported in the “Fauna 
of British India (Coleoptera, Erotylidae, Languriidae, Endo- 
mychidae).” 
In addition to the type there is another specimen of undeter- 
mined sex bearing the same data which is designated paratype. 
Ectomychus africanus n. sp. 
Type, male. “S. O. Kamerun, Lolodorf, L. Conradt 95.” 
A small, uniformly reddish-yellow insect clothed with yellow, 
semi-erect hairs of moderate length. Its features are typical for 
the genus but the second tarsal joint is narrow and more like 
Stenotarsus than the genotype of Ectomychus , E. basalts Gor- 
ham. Head and thorax finely, evenly and rather closely punc- 
tured. The raised border of the pronotum is sharply defined 
internally and is narrowed a little posteriorly. The lateral sulci 
of the pronotum are almost straight, very slightly convergent 
anteriorly, not reaching to middle of disc. Pronotum sinuate at 
base, without transverse sulcus. Scutellum broadly triangular. 
Elytra together distinctly longer than broad, finely, evenly and 
densely punctured. Pro-, meso- and metasternum reddish, ab- 
domen yellow and clothed with a long, sparse pubescence. The 
middle of the first abdominal segment bears a dense tuft of 
hairs, possibly a sexual feature. Antennae one-third the length 
of body, yellow with the three club joints dusky. The ninth 
and tenth joints are angularly produced internally and all the 
