1900.J Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 447 



line with the clypeus ; prothorax fringed laterally and along the 

 base which is marginate, with a few very short setae, it is smooth, 

 but along the anterior margin there is a deep, transverse sulcus 

 somewhat indistinctly punctured, the lateral transverse fossa is 

 very elongate, there is a median, basal, very short furrow, and on 

 each side of it, but more towards the median part, there are a few 

 round, somewhat closely set foveate punctures, in shape the pro- 

 thorax is similar to that of P. modestus ; elytra nearly oblong, hardly 

 ampliated laterally past the middle, punctato-striate, but with the 

 punctures moderately deep and the intervals moderately convex ; 

 the eighth stria is very short, and the eighth interval overhangs the 

 ninth stria which is not punctate ; intermediate and posterior tibiae 

 dilated triangularly at apex, strongly serrate on the upper side ; 

 basal joint of intermediate tarsi dilated triangularly from the base, 

 apical spur not long, not compressed, not obtuse at tip, and reaching 

 the base of the fourth joint. 



Length 3 mm. ; width IJ- mm. 



Hah. Natal (?Frere). 



PSAMMODIUS SUBCILIATUS, Har., 



Coleopt., Heft, v., 1869, p. 103. 



"Shining, elongato-ovate, ferruginous; head roughly asperous ; 

 prothorax irregularly punctate and having on each side a trans- 

 verse, small fovea, anterior margin sulcate transversely behind the 

 eyes on each side, and having an obsolete longitudinal sulcus 

 towards the base, the margins with fine setae not thickened at tip ; 

 elytra striate, the striae ca.tenulate, and the intervals convex and 

 smooth ; metatarsal joint triangular and with the longest of the 

 apical spurs filiform and obtuse at tip. 



Length 3f mm. 



Hah. Interior of South Africa." 



I have not seen this species, and I was under the impression that 

 P. modestus was identical with it, but Mons. Clouet des Pesruches, 

 who has probably seen Harold's type, corrects the latter's descrip- 

 tion, which he contends is not very correct (Annals Soc. Ent. d. 

 Belg., 1900, p. 11), and assigns to P. suh-ciliatus " some elytra with 

 linear striae having small, distinct punctures not intruding at all on 

 the edges of the intervals." Harold, however, uses the words 

 •" elytris catenulato-striatis " in his description. 



