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(luplo longiore. Thorax postice longitudine media vix latioi^ 

 regulariter rotundato-auipliatus, basi subtruncatus, angulis ob- 

 tusis; antice utrimqiie leviter sirmatus, angulis acuminato-pro- 

 (luctis; supra inodice convexus, ubique requaliter et remote 

 punctulatus, intra margineni baseos elevatuni transversiin im- 

 pressus, apice tenuiter marginatus, marginibus lateralibus di- 

 stincte reflexo-cariuatis. Scutellum tenuiter granulatum, postice 

 medio angulatini productuni. Elytra breviter ovalia, antice 

 basi thoracis hand latiora, latitudine media duplo longiora, 

 apice nonnihil deplanato-producta, leviter dehiscentia, supra 

 valde convexa, postice fere verticaliter declivia, ad basin et in 

 dorso subhevigata, parce pnnctulata, postice granulis minntis, 

 snbsetiformibus, adspersa, versus latera costis nonnullis longi- 

 tudinalibus, obsoletis, notata, marginibus laternm distincte ca- 

 riuatis; nigra, aut sutura angustius rufescente, aut vitta longi- 

 tudinali communi, fere tertiam elytrorum partem occupante, 

 sanguinea ornata. Epiplenra hievia, nitidissima. Corpus sul)tus 

 valde convexum. Prosternum latum, parce punctatuni; abdomen 

 ^ul:)lpevigatum, cf^ segmentis duobns basalibus singulo medio 

 macula orbiculari fulvo-sericea notatis, anteriore minuta. Pedes 

 clongati, femoribus puuctatis, tenuiter sericeo-pubescentibus, 

 posticis segmentum penultimum abdominis fere excedentibus, 

 tibiis dense fulvo-pilosis, posticis ante medium distincte curvatis. 



41. Psammodes caffra: subovata, nigra, glabra, parce punctata, 

 thorace modice convexo, versus basin angustato; elytris ovali- 

 bus, obtuse costatis, sutura vittisque duabus longitudinalibus 

 in singulo, postice al)breviatis, sanguineis. Long. 2G, lat. 15 

 millim. 



Caput subtrapeziformc, remote punctatum, labro transverso, 

 vix emarginato, piceo, fulvo-ciliato,. Antennae tenues tiliformes, 

 piccte, setulosne, apicera versus griseo-pilosje, basin thoracis 

 attingentes, articulo 3:o sequente fere duplo longiore. Thorax 

 apice basi paullo latior, ante medium rotundato-ampliatus, 

 angulis anticis parum productis, basalibus obtusisj supra pa- 

 rum, convexus, parce punctatus, intra marginem baseos trans- 

 versim obsoletius impressus, apice tenuiter, lateribus vero di- 

 stincte reflexo-marginatus: colore disci interdum indeterminate 

 rufo-tmcto. Scutellum brevissimum, postice medio leviter pro- 

 ductuni. Elytra breviter ovalia, antice latitudine baseos tho- 

 racis, medio vero thorace duplo latiora, latitudine media duplo 

 longiora, apice nonnihil dehiscentia, submucronata, supra antice 

 modice convexa, postice valde declivia, ante apicem utrimque 

 oblique impressa, anterius remote punctata, postice setulis erectis, 

 brevissimis, nigris, svibscabra, prteter marginem lateralem ele- 

 vatuni costis sex discoidalibus obtusis, antice posticeque abbre- 

 viatis, suturse proxima obliterata, instructa, vittis quinque lon- 

 ijitudinalibus, una suturali, duabusque utrimque in interstitiis 

 primo tertioque, pone medium abbreviatis, nee prope ad basin 



