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4. Pomponia lactea. (Tab. VII., Ijg. lb, a, b.) 



Leptopsaltria lactea, Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xx. p. 229 (1887). 



Head and pronotum ochraceous ; head with the front, the area of the ocelli, and a transverse streak 

 in front of eyes reddish-ochraceous. Pronotum with the whole disk reddish ochraceous, with an indistinct, 

 central, longitudinal fascia, on each side of which are two oblicjue excavated lines ; the margins pale 

 ochraceous. Mesouotum obscure ochraceous, with two obscure and mostly castaneous, central, obconical 

 spots, on each side of which is a curved broken fascia of the same colour, and a large spot in front of the 

 cruciform basal elevation. Abdomen above ochraceous, with a broad, central, castaneous fascia, which 

 is notched and channelled outwardly ; stigmata also castaneous. Body beneath and legs ochraceous ; 

 apices of the femora, bases and apices of the tibiaj, the tarsi, a spot on apical segment of abdomen, and 

 apes of the rostrum, castaneous. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, with a strong milky-white sufifusion or reflexion. Tegmina with 

 the veins alternately ochraceous and castaneous ; the costal membrane and a small costal spot at base 

 of upper ulnar area ochraceous ; transverse veins at bases of apical areas more or less infuscated, and 

 a marginal row of pale fuscous spots placed on the apices of the veins. Wings with the venation dark 

 castaneous and unspotted. 



Long. excl. tegm. S , 30 millim. Exp. tcgm. 80 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula : Perak (Doherty — coll. Dist.). Malayan Archipelago : Sumatra (Forbes — 

 coll. Dist.). 



The body is long and gi-adually tapering towards apex ; the lateral margins of tlie 

 pronotum are concavely sinuate, not angulated. The face is broad and tumid, the central 

 sulcation small and only distinct on apical half; the transverse ridges prominent. The 

 rostrum extends a little beyond posterior coxae. The opercula are small, only reaching the 

 basal segment of the abdomen ; they are outwardly oblique, broadly convex at apices, and 

 again obliquely directed inwardly and upwardly. 



5. Pomponia picta. (Tab. VII., fig. 11, a, b.) 



Dunduhia picta. Walker, Joum. Linn. Sec, Zool. vol. s. p. 90, n. 17 (18C7). 



" Female. Ferruginous. Head blackish about the eyes ; two irregular green stripes ; a green stripe 

 in front, interrupted on the face, which is pieeous and has transverse tawny streaks along each side. 

 Prothorax with a very broad green stripe, which is contracted in the middle, and contains two black 

 stripes ; these stripes are contracted near the fore border and near the hind border, where they are much 

 dilated ; an obhque irregular green stripe on each side ; postscutellum green. Mesothorax with a blackish 

 dot on each side on the fore border, between two green streaks ; two green patches on the hind border. 

 Abdomen with four pieeous stripes, of which the inner pair are very broad. Ventral opercula green. 

 Legs green ; fore femora and posterior tibiie with pieeous bands ; middle femora striped with pieeous ; 

 posterior tibiae pieeous at each end ; anterior tarsi pieeous. Wings pellucid ; a zigzag oblique dark-brown 

 streak, which includes the first, second, and third transverse veins ; fourth and fifth transverse veins 

 clouded with dark brown, as are also the veins at the base of the sixth marginal areolet ; a dark brown 

 dot on each side of the third discoidal areolet ; an elongated brown dot on each of the marginal veins ; 

 veins black, with pale green bands ; costa pale green." 



" Length of the body 17 lines, of the wings 40 lines." 



Hab.— Malayan Archipelago : Sumatra (Wallace — Brit. Mus. ; Beccaii — Genoa Mus. ; Ludeking — 

 Leyden Mus.). 



