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" Malr. Pale testaceous, slender. Head with a hlack band, and with the usual black marks in front. 

 Prothorax with two approximate black stripes, and with two black spots on each side, ^^csothorax with 

 nine black stripes, which are more or less abbreviated hindward, where there are two black dots. Abdomen 

 with six stripes of black spots ; the second pair of stripes incomplete. Opercula nearly half the length of 

 the abdomen." 



"Wings quite vitreous; veins pale testaceous. Fore wings with the marginal veins clouded by brown 

 striiies, which successively decrease in length ; first and second transverse veins clouded with brown, 

 very oblique ; first much longer than the second, from which it is parted by much more than twice its 

 length ; third and fourth transverse veinlets oppositely oblique, slightly curved or undulating. Hind wings 

 very slightly clouded with brown along the transverse marginal veinlets." 



"Length of the body 10—11 lines; of the wings 24—26 lines." 



Hab. — Continental India (Brit. Mus.). 



This species is only known to the writer by the typical specimen contained in the 

 collection of the Britisl; Museum. That specimen is here figtired, and Walker's original 

 description is reproduced. The only locality recorded is simply " Hindostan." 



9. Pomponia pumila, u. sp. (Tab. XIII., fig. 8, a, b.) 



3 . Body above brownish-ochraceous. Head with a spot on each side of front, some linear marks at 

 area of ocelli, an inner fascia to eyes, and a marginal spot near base of front, blackish. Pronotum 

 with two central longitudinal fasciie and the incisures blackish. Jlesonotum with a central longitudinal 

 fascia, on each side of which is a short obhque fascia on disk, a submarginal fascia, and a spot in 

 front of the anterior angles of the basal cruciform elevation, blackish. Abdomen with the marginal 

 incisures and the margins of the tympanal coverings blackish. Body beneath ochraceous ; apex of face, 

 margins, and some discal spots to sternum, base and apex of abdomen, and a large spot on outer basal 

 margins of opercula, blackish. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, the venation ochraceous. Tegmina with the transverse veins at 

 the bases of the first, second and third apical areas obscurely infuscated and with a pale, waved, fuscous 

 outer submarginal fascia. 



The abdomen is robust and somewhat compressed above ; the opercula are small, wide apart ; the face 

 is centrally and longitudinally raised and levigate, the lateral transverse striations being very profound. 



Long. excl. tegm. 15 millim. Exp. tegm. 41 millim. 



Hab. — Malayan Archipelago : Borneo ; Elopura (Pryer — coll. Dist.). 



A single specimen of this small species was captured by my friend Mr. "W. B. Pryer in 

 March, 1884, and has thus remained some years undescribed. It is the smallest species of 

 the genus with which I am acquainted. 



aa. Tegmina with the transverse veins at bases of second and third apical areas, and the apex, infuscated. 

 10. Pomponia viridimaculata. (Tab. X., fig. 9, a, h.) 



I'l'iiiimmti liridimarulata, Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. C, vol. iii. p. 421 (1889). 



<? . Body above castaneous ; ocelli, eyes, and posterior margin of pronotum ochraceous ; mesonotum 

 very dark castaneous, with two obscure contiguous obconical spots at anterior margin ; face, anterior 

 margins of head beneath, and legs, blackish ; apices of the femora ochraceous ; posterior tibise castaneous, 

 their bases and apices blackish. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, the venation brownish ochraceous ; tegmina with the costal 

 membrane pale castaneous, the transverse veins at the bases of the second and third apical areas, and the 

 apex of the longitudinal vein defining the upper apical area, broadly and darkly infuscated, and a distinct 



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