Given a bounded function ϕ on the unit disk in the complex plane, we consider the operator T ϕ , defined on the Bergman space of the disk and given by T ϕ (f ) = P (ϕf ), where P denotes the projection to the Bergman space in L 2 (D, dA). We provide new necessary conditions on ϕ for T ϕ to be hyponormal, extending recent results of Fleeman and Liaw. One of our main results provides a necessary condition on the complex constant C for the operator T z n +C|z| s to be hyponormal. This condition is also sufficient if s ≥ 2n.