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is somewhat scrobiculate ; male with a conspicuous, fulvous median 

 patch extending on the three basal segments. 



Herr Clements Muller, to whom I submitted this species to com- 

 pare it with Kutenberg's type of P. spinisus, writes that although 

 the shape of the prosternum is similar, it is not P. spinisus, but it is 

 closely related, and that in the latter the prothorax is much shorter, 

 broader and less strongly sculptured, the elytra are a little narrower, 

 and the whole surface is shining. 



Length 29 mm. ; width 15 mm. 



Hab. Namaqualand. Garwood Alston. 



PSAMMODES DAMAKINUS, n. Sp. 



Black, quite opaque ; head with the same sculpture as P. dis- 

 crepans ; the prothorax is nearly of the same shape and width, but 

 the lateral slight ampliation is more median, the lateral scrobicula- 

 tion is wider, the punctures in the median dorsal part are much 

 deeper, and the posterior angles are more rounded ; the elytra are 

 suddenly inflated at a very short distance from the oblique shoulders 

 and gradually attenuated from there towards the apex, the dorsal 

 part is convex from near the base, and slopes down towards the 

 apex from about the median part, but the lateral part is almost 

 vertical above the depressed outer margin ; the median part of the 

 disk is broadly smooth from the base to two-thirds of the length, and 

 the sides are covered with small, round, not closely set tubercles 

 extending to about half the length and turning into granules in the 

 posterior part, the whole of the declivous part being also strewn with 

 granules of similar size ; the prosternum and sculpture of the under 

 side and legs are similar to those of P. discrepans. I do not know 

 the male of this species ; in this sex the elytra are perhaps a little 

 more elongate, and not so vertical laterally. Although allied to 

 P. discrepans, P. damarinus is distinguishable by the much more 

 deeply punctured median part of the prothorax, and the much finer 

 and more scattered granules and tubercles on the elytra. 



Length 30 mm. ; width 15^ mm. 



Hab. Damaraland (no exact locality). 



PSAMMODES ZOUTPANSBERGIANUS, n. sp. 

 Plate XIII., fig. 14. 



Male : Black, with every puncture on the prothorax having in the 

 centre a minute greyish hair, the elytra are clothed with similar but 

 very dense hairs, leaving, however, the suture and the costae 

 denuded ; head covered on the anterior part with somewhat deep, 



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