248 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Brotheus, gen. nov. 

 Body moderately elongate; head robust, broad, a little swollen 

 between the eyes, ocelli placed a little behind eyes and about ^s far 

 apart from them as from each other ; a distinct, slender, somewhat 

 outwardly directed spine on each side before base of antenna ; 

 antennae robust, basal joint stoutly incrassate throughout, prominently 

 and coarsely hirsute on both sides, about as long as the head, 

 remaining joints more slender, second slightly longer than the third, 

 fourth short and cylindrical ; eyes less remote from base than from 

 apex, nonprominent and somewhat adpressed ; pronotum with the 

 anterior area deflected, the later margins concavely sinuate, the lateral 

 angles prominent or prominently spinous ; scutellum moderately 

 small and triangular, corium a little longer than the membrane 

 which has mostly longitudinal veins ; rostrum inserted below the 

 apex of the head and just passing the intermediate coxae ; third joint 

 longest ; mesosternum with a central sulcation ; legs normal, 

 femora moderately thickened. 



Brotheus viridis, sp. n. 



Pale greenish ; head, anterior area of pronotum, and suffusions 

 to body beneath, sometimes the whole of mesonotum — and legs, 

 greenish ochraceous ; apical joint of the antennae and lateral angles 

 of the pronotum, pale sanguineous ; corium with a pale spot on the 

 apical margin ; membrane pale hyaline. Above thickly punctate ; 

 pronotum with a subobsolete central levigate line, lateral angles 

 variable, generally moderately prominent and obtusely angulated, 

 slightly directed upwardly — in one specimen the apices are distinctly 

 acutely spinous ; body beneath thickly but more obscurely punctate 

 than above. 



Long. 9-10 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal : Pretoria (W. L. D.). 



HETEEOPTEEA FEOM MASHONALAND. 



Family COREID^. 



Sub-Family COREIN^. 



Division MICTARIA. 



Anoplocnemis curvipes, Fabr. Salisbury. 



„ montandoni, Dist. Salisbury. 



