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c? . Seg. abdom. tribus primis in medio fulvo tomentosis. 



Not unlike in general appearance P. ponderosus, but the prothorax 

 is more deflexed in the anterior part, and the elytra are more 

 ampliated from the very base ; the sculpture and colour are, however, 

 very different. 



Hab. Transvaal (Leydenburg). E. J. Dunn. 



PSAMMODES MASHUNUS, 



Plate VI., fig. 13. 



Niger, elytris leviter asneo micantibus ; antennis piceo-rufis, gracili- 

 bus ; caput vage sparseque puuctulatum ; prothorax longitudine 

 latitudine fere aequali, ante-medium rnodice rotundato ampliatus, 

 pone medium versus basim leviter attenuatus, angulis anticis acutis, 

 prominulis, posticis rotundatis, supra convexus, antice sub-declivus, 

 ad basim utrinque leviter compressus, punctis mintitis adspersus, 

 linea angusta longitudinali nuda ; elytra antice latitudine baseos 

 prothoracis, in medio ampliata, versus apicem attenuata, supra con- 

 vexa, postice valde declivia, apice deplanato producta singulatimque 

 rotundata, costata, interstitiis 2-4 ad declivitatem, 5-6 apice ultra 

 medium acute tuberculatis, laterihus etiam apice tuberculatis, margine 

 lateral! acuta apice laminata ; pedes elongati, sat validi, tibiis fulvo 

 tomentosis. Long. 25-26^ mm. ; lat. 14-15 mm. 



3 Abdom. segmentis tribus primis fulvo tomentosis. 



Allied to P.pierreti, Amyot. ; the facies is the same, but apart from 

 the colour, which is different, the sculpture of the elytra differs also : 

 in P. pierreti they are not costate, and the sides and posterior part 

 are covered with very closely set seriate tubercles, whereas in P. 

 mashwius there are only three lateral series of slightly larger 

 tubercles not closely set, and two series in the declivous part. 



Hab. Zambesia (Upper Haiiyani Eiver). G. A. K. Marshall. 



PSAMMODES MULLEEI, 

 Plats VI., fig. 11. 



Niger, nitidus ; antennae graciles, ferruginei ; caput fere leve ; 

 prothorax longitudine hand latior, ante medium vix ampliatus, 

 angulis anticis acutis, prominulis, posticis rotundatis, supra con- 

 vexus, acute marginatus, vix punctulatus ; elytra antice prothoraee 

 tertio latiora, in medio leviter ampliata, versus apicem parum 

 attenuata, margine lateral! acuta, apice utrinque laminata, supra 



