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Subfamily Cantacaderinae Stal 
Genus Gonycentrum Bergroth 
Gonycentrum Bergroth, Wiener Ent. Zeit., vol. 17, No. 1, p. 9, 1898. 
Gonycentrum afrum, new species 
Ficure 1 
Description: Small, elongate ovate, grayish testaceous with vein- | 
lets variegated with brown, head grayish brown, antennae brownish | 
testaceous with termina] segment blackish fuscous, legs testaceous, | 
femora widely banded at middle with dark fuscous, tarsi infuscate, | 
body beneath brownish fuscous. Length 2.55 mm., width (across | 
widest part of elytra) 1.00 mm. 
Head very long, greatly produced in front of eyes, surpassing second | 
antennal segment, armed with nine tuberclelike spines; eyes rather) 
small, transverse, touching anterior margin of pronotum; bucculae. 
very wide, six areolae deep in widest part, parallel, open in front, with’ 
apices extending slightly beyond tip of clypeus. Antennae 1.62 mm. 
long, very slender, indistinctly pubescent, with the pubescent hairs. 
pale and longer on last segment; segmental measurements: I, 6; II, 5; 
III, 54; IV, 20. Labium extending to end of sulcus, the bucculae and. 
ibaa hanes on thoracic sterna parallel, boenthes forming a long, 
straight, narrow channel, with both ends open. Hypocostal laminae 
ponipored of one row of Salt areolae. 
Pronotum moderately convex across humeri, reticulately punctatal 
tricarinate; median carina extending entire iene of pronotum, very, 
distinct, without cells, present on collar; lateral carinae parallel,| 
terminating anteriorly at calli, also without cells; paranota narrow, 
uniseriate, nearly upright, each paranotum composed of one row of 
small cells; posterior margin slightly sinuate, not extending over 
scutellum, the latter smaJ] and dark. 
Elytra widest across apices of clavus, with adventitious veins in 
both subcostal and discoidal areas, with panel areas overlapping so 
as to lie jointly rounded behind in repose; costal area narrow, com- 
posed of one row of small areolae; subcostal area much wider, Aye or 
six areolae deep. Legs moderately long, indistinctly pubescent. 
Typrs: Holotype (male) and allotype (female), Grahamstown, 
South Africa, collected by Dr. E. M. Callan, USNM 65109. 
Remarks: The holotype of G. afrum is illustrated in figure 1, 
The slender, elongate-ovate form with elytra slowly convexly nar- 
rowed bey ead the middle and the narrower costal areas separate this 
species from its African congeners. 
