224 Mr. \V. 1.. Distant on Diiiidorina?, 



Basicryptus negus ^ sp. n. 



Ochraceous, unicolorous ; membrane greyish, with the 

 nervines fuscous. 



Antenna? pale luteous; second, third, and fourth joints 

 almost subequal in length, fifth longest. Head Ion,;*, the 

 lateral lobes a little divergent at apices, their margins up- 

 wardly reflexed. Pronotum rugose, sparingly punctate, 

 convex, without any central ridge, the lateral angles sub- 

 acutely rounded, the anterior lateral margins strongly serrate. 

 Scutellum rugose, scarcely so at apox, darkly and sparingly 

 punctate. Corium sparingly punctate, the jiunctures in some 

 ]ilaces black and in small clusters. Body beneath and legs 

 sparingly punctate. 



Long. 16-20 millini. ; max. lat. 10-12 millim. 



Hab. Arabia; Hadramaut {Dent Exped., Brit. Mus.) ; 

 Abyssinia (Coll. Dist.). 



Apparently most nearly allied to the West-African species 

 B. rugosus, Fabr., from which it differs by the non-ridged 

 pronotum &c. 



Two Abyssinian specimens in my own collection reach the 

 maximum in size. 



Genus GOXOPSIS. 



Goyiopsis, Aiuvot & Serv. Hem. p. 180 (1843). 

 Bessida, Walk. Cat. Het. iii. p. 577 (1808). 



Lethierry and Severin in their Catalogue (t. i. p. 22G) 

 placed this proposed genus of Walker in the Tessaratominse, 

 misled doubtless by the erroneous description of the head — 

 " rounded in front." 



Gonopsis coccinea. 



Macrina coccinea, "Walk. Cat. Het. iii. p. 497. u. 7 (1868). 

 Bessida scutellwis, Walk. loc. cit. p. 678. 



Gonopsis angularis. 

 Macrina angularis, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 360 (1851). 



Gonopsis mantis. 



Macrina mantis, Stal, CEfr. Vet.-Ak. Furh. 1853, p. 225. n. 2. 

 Jjichelurhinus indicator. Walk. Cat. Het. iii. p. 499, d. 4 (lSb8), 



Gonopsis bantUf sp. n. 

 Purplish black ; head, anterior half of pi'onotum, a sub- 



