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Prothorax irregularly punctate, supra-lateral fovea small, in- 

 tervals of elytra plane in the dorsal part, punctures of strige small, 

 not impinging on the intervals sub-ciliatus. 



Prothorax with only a few punctures in the median part, supra- 

 lateral fovea not very long evanidits. 



PSAMMODIUS MODESTUS, 11. SpeC. 



Head and prothorax piceons ; elytra, legs, and under side 

 ferruginous ; head convex, covered with deep foveate punctures 

 separated by rugose intervals, somewhat granular on the vertex, 

 the genae are very prominent and bluntly triangular, the clypeus is 

 moderately oblique laterally, broad at apex, where it is very slightly 

 incised in the centre, and with the outer angles well defined ; pro- 

 thorax broader than long, rounded and slightly ampliate laterally, 

 marginate along the base and covered with broad, deep, irregular 

 scrobiculate punctures, the lateral fossa is transverse and very 

 distinct, and in the median part there is a somewhat ill-defined 

 groove reaching from the middle part to the base ; elytra very 

 convex, ampliate laterally from the median to the posterior part, the 

 anterior angles are sharp, the striae are deep and strongly punctate, 

 the punctures impinging on the costae, the intervals are convex, a 

 little tectiform laterally, and impunctate, the eighth is strongly 

 carinate and overhangs the ninth stria, which is distinctly punctate ; 

 intermediate and posterior tibiae dilated and triangular at apex, 

 closely serrate on the upper side, spurs of the intermediate tibiae as 

 long as the two basal joints of the tarsi, the first of which is slightly 

 dilated triangularly at tip, the longest spur of the posterior ones 

 compressed, blunt at tip, a little shorter than the intermediate ones, 

 more robust, and as long as the two basal joints, the first of which is 

 triangular. 



Length 3 mm. ; width 1^ mm. 



Hah. Natal (Frere). 



PSAMMODIUS EVANIDUS. 



Testaceous red, somewhat shining ; head and clypeus very 

 convex ; both are covered with granules disposed transversely in 

 semicircular series, but the head is smooth in the basal part, 

 clypeus oblique laterally with the outer angles rounded, and 

 deeply and broadly emarginate at apex, genae prominent but in a 



