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septus, Germ., was thus found), whilst many species, especially 

 Reduviids, were only met with under stones and pieces of quartzite. 

 These are favourite situations during the dry season for many 

 insects, and even Pentatomidae are no exception to the rule, 

 but in a bare and treeless region find their only shelter under 

 the rocky debris which strew the plains. On the wing, species 

 of the genus Aspongopus and Anoplocnemis curvipes are the 

 most abundant, and appearing early, fly throughout the summer 

 season, whilst during the same period the stridulation of Platy- 

 pleura divisa is heard from most of the willow trees that 

 abound in Pretoria. I was surprised to find how 'many small 

 beetles become the prey of the Reduviids } and the rostrum of 

 Physorhynchus patricius produces more intense pain than 

 the bite or puncture of any other insect with which I am 

 acquainted. 



Small as the material collected is, I am able to add a new 

 genus and fifteen species hitherto unrecorded in entomological 

 literature. 



Fam. PENTATOMID^E. 



Subfam. SCUTELLERIXJE. 



Steganocerus multipunctatus , Thunb. 

 Callidea natalensis, Stal. 



Subfam. CYDNIX^:. 

 Dismegistus fimbriatus, Thunb. 



Subfam. ASOPIN^E. 

 Glypsus mcestus, Germ. 

 Glypsus conspicuus, Hope. 

 Cimex figuratus, Germ., var. n. 



Subfam. PENTATOMIXJE. 



Canomorpha nervosa, Dall. 

 Paramecocoris ventralis, Germ. 

 Paramecocoris atomarius, Dall. 

 Tropicorypha corticina, Germ. 

 Holcostethus obscuratus, sp. n. 

 HalyomorpJia capitata, sp. n. 



Pretoria, 

 Pretoria. 



Waterberg. 



Pretoria. 

 Pretoria. 

 Pretoria. 



Pretoria. 

 Pretoria. 

 Pretoria. 

 Pretoria. 

 Pretoria. 

 Zoutpansberg. 



