232 Annals of the South African Museum. 



round punctures, separated by an interval equal to their diameter, 

 labrum impunctate, densely fringed with fulvous hairs ; prothorax 

 moderately ampliated and rounded laterally slightly before the 

 anterior part, one-third broader there than long, and a little more 

 narrowed thence towards the posterior angle which is moderately 

 rounded, deeply sinuate along the base, anterior angles not sharp ; 

 the whole surface is covered with deep round punctures with narrow 

 wavy intervals slightly raised in the median part of the disk, and 

 much more irregular and more sharply raised on the sides ; scutellar 

 part scabroso-granulate ; elytra elongated, twice and a half the 

 length of the prothorax, sloping sub-diagonally laterally at the 

 humeral part, which is not wider than the base of the prothorax, 

 plainly sinuate, very little ampliated towards the median part where 

 it is only one-fourth wider across than the prothorax at its widest 

 part, and very little narrowed towards the posterior part, moderately 

 convex in the anterior, very sloping behind, and having on each side 

 four plain, sub-granulose denuded costge gradually diminishing in 

 length, the juxta-marginal one being the longest, and the two juxta- 

 sutural coalescing near the top of the posterior declivity, the outer 

 margin is very sharp, and the intervals are filled with irregular 

 granules ; under side and legs roughly punctured, the latter with a 

 very short, sub-fi;lvous hair in each puncture ; the three basal 

 abdominal segments have a broad, sub-quadrate patch of fulvous 

 iomentum. 



Length 34 mm. ; width 14-J mm. 



Hob. Transvaal (Pietersburg). A. G. P. Janse. 



PSAMMODES FAETUS, n. Sp. 



Piceous, with the suture slightly rufescent ; antennae and legs 

 clothed with a very short, fulvescent pubescence ; epistoma broadly 

 but not deeply punctate in the anterior part only, frontal part with 

 moderately closely set minute punctures ; prothorax broadly and 

 roundly ampliated, one-third broader than long across its widest 

 part, which is not quite in the middle, moderately convex, and finely 

 and not closely punctulate ; elytra slightly convex, ampliato-ovate, 

 strongly declivous behind without costae in the anterior part, but 

 with four longitudinal, shallow broad sulci the four intervals of 

 which are clothed with long, densely set, greyish flavescent hairs, 

 the three dorsal rows of hairs are shorter, the fourth ascends from 

 near the apex to about half the length of the elytra, and between 

 this supra-lateral row and the outer margin there are also some 



