1921.] Ill 



nonnally three-jointed tarsi. Anomalous as it is, tlie new genus here 

 described is not, however, quite isolated. Under the name Psammiion 

 mica Breddin * has described (from S. W. Africa) a new genus and 

 species, which he ])laced in the Geocorinae., and wliich is clearly allied to 

 the genus found bv Mr. Campbell. Fsaunniinn is .said, to resemble "a 

 hunp of cohering grains of sand,"" and it is still more aberrant than the 

 Indian genus, which at first sight has the general appearance of a small 

 weevil. 



SvMPEPLUS, nov. gen. 

 ((Tii^7re7r\os=:with fused tegmina.) 



Corpus pirifonne. Caput transversuiii, proiioto longius et basi hujus pauUo 

 aiigListiiis, ante oculos in s]iiiiaui porrectam et apice in proeessum coiiicum pro- 

 dactuu!, sulco clypeali destitutum sed utiinque linea ill)pre.•^sa peicurreiite 

 intralaterali (saepe crusta tecta et tunc paruiu visibili) instructuni, oculis 

 sessilibus, a supei'o visis leviter obliquis, fere reuifunnibuS; angulos apicales 

 pronoti taugentibus, orbita post medium siuuata, oceilis nullis, antennis inter 

 processum apicalem et spiuam lateralem iurerue insertis, capite parum longiori- 

 bus, articulo primo ceteris robustiore, apicem capitis levissime superante, inter 

 omnes loiigissimo, secuiido brevissim", bucculis percurreutibus, liuearibus, 

 rostro coxas medias attiugente, articulo primo medium gulae pauUum superaute. 

 Prouotum multo latius quam lougius, in transversum sat fortiter, in longitudi- 

 nem minus couvexum, angulis leviter rotundatis, marginibus apicali et 

 biteralibus subrectis, basali levi^sime rotuudato vel fere recto, areis cicatiicalibus 

 in axi longitudinali corporis jaceutibus, bite distautibus, angustis, leviter sig- 

 moideis, impressis sed crusta albida repletis, inter se impressioue transversa 

 con junetis. Scutelhim fortiter transversum, triangulare, apice carina brevi 

 instructum. Elytra in transversum et iu longitudinem valde et quam venter 

 magis couvexa, abdomen totum tegentia, tota coriacea, membrana destituta, 

 per totam longitudinem eoucreta, commissuram carinatum formautia, clavocum 

 corio etiam coalito, saepe (non semper) loco suturae carini tenui vel vestigio 

 ejus instructo. Anguli postici metasterni acutiusculi ; orificia brevia, subtilia. 

 Abdomen subtus in transversum sat fortiter couvexum. Pedes modice distantes, 

 breviusculi, simplices, tarsis bi-articulatis, articulo secundo longiore. 



Seen iu profile the upper curve of the body is not continuous, there being 

 a very distinct impression between the elytra (andscutellum) and the prouotum, 

 aud a less pronounced impression between the prouotum and the head. In 

 nearly all the specimens seen the elytra are considerably raised above the level 

 of the pronotum, only the smallest male having the former scarcely higher than 

 the latter. When the faint keel indicating the place where the claval suture 

 should be is present, it reaches the middle of the elytral commissure. 



This genus has all the more important characters in common with 

 Psaminium Bredd., but the latter has shortly stylated eyes, a strongly 



* Der.kachr. Nat. Ges. Jena, xvii, p. 68 (191.3). — In the " Zool. Eecord " and other bibliofiraphic 

 works this paper (I.e. pp. 47-8^) will be found under the name F. Schumacher, as the latter (who in 

 the preface speaks of his " PietUt '' towards Breddiu) has chosen to jdacc himself alone on the title- 

 paj^e as the author of the paper. Asa matter of fact it is a posthumous paper of Breddin's, in which 

 only the few Cicadae and (3 out of the 2o new Heteroptera are described by Schumacher. 



