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duplo latiora, quadrata, supra antice vix rotundata, postice abrupte 

 declivia, lateribus verticalibus, carina lateral! apice acute terminata 

 partemque declivarn superante costisque duabus declivitatis apicem 

 attingentibus e carinis brevibus, distincte interruptis sub-undulatisque 

 formatis, utroque praedita, interstitiis granulis distinctis sat confertis 

 obsitis ; pro and mesosterno rude, metasterno abdomineque subtilius 

 punctatis ; pedes rugosuli, breviter pubescentes. Long. 15 mm. ; 

 lat. 9 mm. 



Hab. Zambesia (Manica). F. C. Selous. 



GEN. PSAMMODES, Kirb. 



PSAMMODES KARROOEXSIS, 



Plate VI, fig. 10. 



Niger, nitidus, elytris costis tuberculosis ferrugineo-rufis ; antenna) 

 graciles ; caput leve ; prothorax fere orbicularis, supra aequaliter 

 convexus, basi apice nonnibil angustior, angulis anticis acutis valde 

 prominulis, posticis rotundatis, margine laterali acuta, serrulata, 

 lateribus anguste granulosis, disco vage puiictulato, punctis omnibus 

 setam longissimam pallidam ferentibus ; elytra rotundata, a basi 

 ampliata, supra convexa, postice valde dehiscentia, costis tribus 

 acute crebreque tuberculatis, basim vix attingentibus, rufescen- 

 tibus, interstitiisque minus seriato tuberculatis, in singulo praedita, 

 tuberculis omnibus setiferis, setis longissimis, erectis, sutura sub- 

 elevata, margine laterali acuta, postice deplanata serrulataque ; pedes 

 validi, femoribus crassis, dense ochraceo tomentosis. Long. 23 mm. ; 

 lat. 15-17 mm. 



$ . Abdom. segment. 2 macula rotundata fulvo-tomentosa. 



Allied to P. scabratus, Sol. Tbe very long, pallid setas are very 

 easily rubbed off, and it is rare to find a pilose example. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Matjesfontein, Worcester Distr.), R. 

 Trimen ; (Fraserburg). 



PSAMMODES HOTTEXTOTUS, 

 Plate VI., fig. 9. 



Nigro piceus, sub-nitidus, antennae graciles ; caput antice pube 

 ochracea dense vestitum, vertice glabrum, leve ; prothorax longitu- 

 dine latitudine aequali, rotundato ampliatus, basi apice baud angustior, 

 angulis anticis acutis, prominulis, posticis obliteratis, supra convexus 



