72 ORIENTAL CICADID^. 



6. Pomponia singularis. (Tab. VI., fig. 4, a, h.) 



Dunduhia smjnhins. Walker, List Horn., Suppl. p. 7 (1858) ; Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 225, 

 n. 48 (1885). 



"Male. Testaceous, slender, partly green, very pale beneath. Head black between the ocelli, and 

 with a black dot on each side in front. Prothorax with two black dots by the border, which is narrow 

 behind, but much dilated on the hind part of each side ; the latter is notched in the middle. Mesothorax 

 with an oblique green stripe on each side. Abdomen with four rows of triangular brown spots. Opercula 

 small. Wings vitreous, with testaceous streaks between the transverse marginal veinlets and the border ; 

 veins green or testaceous. Fore wings narrow, with the transverse veins and the forks of the longitudinal 

 veins clouded with testaceous ; a testaceous spot at the tip of each marginal vein communicating with 

 a slight testaceous streak on each marginal areolet ; a testaceous dot on the hind side of the third 

 discoidal areolet, with distinct indications of two transverse veins, the one joining the fifth transverse 

 vein, the other ending on the front areolet near the base of the second discoidal areolet ; a few minute 

 testaceous dots on some of the marginal and discoidal veins ; first transverse vein straight, very 

 oblique, but not in the usual du-ection, parted by much more than its length from the second, which 

 is much curved and almost upright ; third and foiu-tb oblique, slightly curved ; third a little shorter 

 than the fourth." 



" Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 30 lines." 



Hab. — Continental India: Hindostan {sic) (Stevens — Brit. Mus.) ; Darjeeling (Stockh. Mus.). 



7. Pomponia ransonetti. (Tab. VII., tig. 20, a, h.) 



Pomponia runsonetti, Distant, Aim. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. i. p. 372 (1888). 



Head and thorax above ochraceous ; head with two converging black lines in front, and the anterior 

 area of vertex (enclosing ocelli), the hinder margin of eyes, and a small spot at same region, black. 

 Pronotum with a broad, central, double, longitudinal fascia, on each side of which are two curved linear 

 spots and a large oblique, semioval, linear spot on each lateral area, black. Mesonofrum with a central 

 longitudinal fascia broadening at base into a large crescentic spot in front of basal cruciform elevation ; 

 on each side of this fascia, starting from anterior margin, is a short curved fascia followed by a spot and 

 again by a long, broad, and slightly curved fascia and a small oblique spot on each lateral margin black. 

 Anterior angles of basal cruciform elevation black. Abdomen above brownish-ochraceous and pilose, the 

 segmental margins narrowly piceous. Head beneath, sternum, and legs ochraceous ; an oval fascia on 

 face, a transverse spot on each side, posterior margin of head, a transverse spot on mesosternum, apices 

 of the femora, and bases of the tibife, black. Abdomen beneath brownish-ochraceous, its base and 

 apex piceous. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, with a pale creamy bluish reflexion, venation castaneous or 

 fuscous ; tegmina with a small ochraceous costal spot at base of upper ulnar area, transverse veins 

 at bases of second, third, fifth, and seventh apical areas infuscated, and a marginal series of fuscous 

 spots situated on the apices of the longitudinal veins to apical areas. 



The rostrum reaches the posterior cosas ; the opercula are small and widely separated. 



Long. excl. tegm. $ , 22 millim. Exp. tegm. 95 millim. 



Hab. — Ceylon : Colombo (Calc. Mus.). 



8. Pomponia evanescens. (Tab. X., fig. 13, a, h.) 



Dunduhia evanescens, Walker, Ins. Saund., Hom. p. 6 (1858). 



