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more scattered but equally long hairs, the anterior discoidal part is 

 finely and not closely punctulate and the sides are covered with 

 very small scattered granules, the setigerous ones heing larger than 

 the others ; the three basal abdominal segments are covered with 

 nearly coalescing rough punctures and are not plicate, the punctures 

 on the apical segments are rounder. 



This species is allied to P. batesi, Haag., which I take to be 

 identical with P. ponderosus, Fahr. ; it is intermediate in shape 

 between this species and P. ventricosus, Fahr., the elytra are not, 

 however, as deeply sulcate laterally in the anterior part, and the 

 vestiture is quite different. 



Length 36^- mm. ; width 214 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Pietersburg). A. J. T. Janse. 



PSAMMODES ILLOTUS, n. Sp. 



Fuscous black, with a tinge of brownish-red on the centre of the 

 prothorax, and occasionally on the anterior part, and also a narrow 

 reddish line along the suture, elongate-ovate ; elytra briefly pubes- 

 cent in the posterior part ; head and prothorax shaped as in P. pon- 

 derosus, P. ventricosus, &c., the former is part obsoletely punctate, the 

 latter quite impunctate ; elytra elongated, twice as broad at their 

 widest part than across the humeral, convex but not abruptly dehis- 

 cent behind, and somewhat acuminate laterally towards the apex, 

 the anterior part of the disk is not even aciculate, but the dehiscent 

 part is very closely and minutely granulose, the granulation ascend- 

 ing obliquely along the sides to about two-thirds of the length, and 

 some of these granules being setigerous, there is a short, greyish, 

 flavescent, nearly appressed pubescence, as well as a faint trace of 

 depressed furrows in the posterior part ; under side and legs as in 

 P. fartus, from which it differs in the more elongated, more acumi- 

 nate and less abruptly declivous elytra. 



Length 31^-35 mm. ; width 16-19 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Pietersburg). A. J. T. Janse. 



GEN. TBACHYNOTIDEUS, Pering. 

 TBACHYNOTIDEUS DAMAKINUS, n. sp. 



Fusco-ferruginous, sub-opaque, elytra with four fuscous bands on 

 each side, head and prothorax having a minute hair in the punctures 

 or interstices ; antennae and legs briefly hairy ; head granulose from 

 the anterior parts of the epistoma to the post ocular part, neck closely 



