276 Annals of the South African Museum. 



culatum ; prothorax longitudine quarto latior, rotundato ampliatus, 

 in medio distincte aculeatus, postice antice minus ampliatus sed 

 basi apice haud angustior, angulis anticis baud prominulis, posticis 

 modice rotundatis, supra sub-depressus, margine antica laterumque 

 carinata, intra basim vage bi-impressus, punctis profundis ad latera 

 confluentibus crebre obsitus ; elytra oblongo ovata, basi prothorace 

 latiora, humeris sub-obliquis, medio prothorace tertio latiora, supra 

 parum convexa, granulis distinctis creberrimis obsita, interstitiis 

 rugosulis, costulis vagis fere obsoletis sed ad latera nonnihil 

 evidentioribus utrinque praedita ; pedes validi, breves, rude rugosi, 

 tibiis posticis apice cavernosis. Long. 24 mm. ; lat. 12 mm. 



$ . Segm. abdom. basalibus tribus late fulvo tomentosis. 



Allied to P. procrustes, Westw., but much smaller, and with a 

 different sculpture. 



Hab. Mozambique (Loureno-Marques). J. de Coster. 



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PSAMMODES VALBNS. 



Niger vel rufo-brunneus, sub-opacus ; antennae ferrugineae, sub- 

 graciles, prothoracis basim attingentes ; caput inter antennas 

 profunde transversim impressum, subtiliter crebreque punctatum ; 

 prothorax latus, rotundato ampliatus, basi apice haud angustior, 

 angulis anticis sub-prominulis, basi sinuata, supra parum convexus, 

 granulatione minutissima, ad latera nonnihil validiora, crebre obsitus ; 

 elytra antice prothorace latiora, a basi ampliata, late ovata, versus 

 apicem modice acuminata, supra parum convexa, creberrime sub- 

 tiliterque granulata, margine laterali anguste deplanata, a basi ad 

 apicem distincte reflexa ; pedes breves, sub-graciles, rude punctati. 

 Long. 12-14 mm. ; lat. 7-g 8 mm. 



I do not know of any close ally of this species. 



Hab. Mozambique (Delagoa). J. de Coster. 



PSAMMODES INTEGER. 



Brunneus, sub-nitidus ; antennae piceaa, sub-validae, prothoracis 

 basim attingentes ; caput inter antennas profunde transversim 

 impressum, fere scrobiculaturn ; prothorax ante medium rotundato 

 ampliatus, postice paullum attenuatus, basi haud sinuata, apice 

 latitudine aequali, angulis anticis prominulis, posticis rectis, supra 

 parum convexus, medio scrobiculato, scrobiculis ad latera validibribus, 

 margine laterali acuta, sub-serrulata ; elytra basi prothorace latiora, 

 ab humeros medio paullum ampliata, versus apicem rotundatim 



