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Genus Gonopsis. 

 Gonopsis, Amy. & Serv. Hist. Hem. p. 180 (1843). 



Type, G. denticulata, Amy. & Serv. 



Gonopsis bovilla, sp. n. 



Above brownish or reddish testaceous, anterior area of 

 pronotum and the head more ochraceous ; membrane greyish, 

 the veins prominent and somewhat pale fuscous ; connexivum 

 stramineous ; body beneath pale ochraceous and darkly 

 punctate ; abdomen beneath with three longitudinal im- 

 punctate fasciae, the central straighter and narrower ; legs 

 ochraceous, the femora darkly punctate, tibiae reddish 

 testaceous with their margins ochraceous, tarsi reddish 

 testaceous; pronotum with the lateral angles longly and 

 somewhat forwardly produced, robustly spinous, with their 

 apices subacute, their posterior margins transversely wrinkled 

 and black ; head somewhat thickly and coarsely punctate, 

 the lateral margins a little sinuate in front of eyes, apices of 

 the lateral lobes well separated and subacute ; antennae 

 reddish testaceous, second joint slightly longer than third; 

 anterior area of pronotum coarsely punctate, the lateral 

 margins denticulate, between the lateral angles a transversely 

 concave levigate line, behind which the surface is punctate 

 and rugulose ; scutellum punctate and rugulose, some obscure 

 black punctures centrally and laterally ; corium thickly 

 coarsely punctate ; stigmata black. 



Long. 144 to 15^ mm. 



Had. Natal; Drakensberg Mts. (Brit. Mus.), Durban 

 (S. Afr. Mus.). 



Allied to G. angularis, Dall, but with the lateral pronotal 

 angles forwardly and more strongly produced. 



Gonopsis humeralis, sp. n. 



Head and anterior area of pronotum ochraceous, blackly 

 punctate ; posterior area of pronotum, scutellum, and corium 

 purplish black ; membrane greyish white ; connexivum 

 reddish testaceous ; body beneath pale testaceous, abdomen 

 beneath more or less reddish testaceous ; legs dull reddish ; 

 antennae reddish testaceous, second and third joints almost 

 subequal in length; head with the lateral margins slightly 

 sinuate in front of eyes, the lateral lobes only divergent at 

 extreme apices, which are subacute, lateral margins narrowly 

 levigate and testaceous ; pronotum with an almost levigate 



