76 ORIENTAL CICADID^. 



The face is tumid and transversely striated ; the rostrum extends to the posterior cosse ; the 

 opercula are short, but widely separated , with their posterior margins moderately convex. 

 Long. excl. tegm. <? , 23 millim. Exp. tegm. 01 milHm. 

 Hab. — Continental India : Sikkim (coll. Dist.) ; Darjeeling (Stockh. Mus.). 



This species appears to be confined to Continental India. The typical specimens in the 

 British Museum are unlocalised. 



15. Pomponia translucida, n. sp. (Tab. XIII., fig. 7, a, h.) 



(? . Head, pronotum, and mesonotum ochraceous ; eyes fuscous, ocelli shining ochraceous. Abdomen 

 above pale greenish, the disk infuscated ; beneath talc-like with a very pale greenish tinge, and with the 

 segmental margins fuscous. Head beneath, sternum, and legs ochraceous. Eostrum with the apex black., 



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

 at the bases of the second and third apical areas infuscated. 



The body is moderately robust, the abdomen narrowed and constricted posteriorly. The rostrum 

 extends to the posterior coxae. The opercula are small, well divided, outwardly oblique, and slightly 

 sinuate, their apices moderately convex. 



Long. excl. tegm. <y , 28 millim. Exp. tegm. 70 millim. 



Hab. — Malayan Archipelago : Sulu Islands ; Job (coll. Dist.). 



The colour markings of this species alone render its determination easy. The absence 

 of black markings to the pronotum and mesonotum, the talc-like appearance of the abdomen 

 beneath, and the greenish base of the abdomen above in contrast with the ochraceous anterior 

 portion of the body, apart from structural pecuharities, afford good specific characters. 



16. Pomponia bindusara. (Tab. IX., tig. 11, a, b.) 



Pomponia liindusnrd, Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 642; Ann. Mus. Civ. Genoa, ser. 2a, vol. vi. p. 456 

 (1888) ; Atkins, J. A. S. Beug. vol. liii. p. 228, n. 63 (1885). 



<? . Body above pale ochraceous ; head with lateral margins of front bordered with black striae, and 

 with two contiguous black spots on disk ; two oblique strise on lateral margins of vertex, and area of ocelli 

 black. Pronotum with two central longitudinal fascise, narrowed, joined, and rounded on posterior margin, 

 widely divergent and terminating on anterior margin, a small curved fascia on each side of disk, and 

 oblique striae also black. Mesonotum with a central fascia, a shorter and more oblique one on each side, 

 followed by an elongate spot on anterior margin, and a long, somewhat broken, submarginal fascia, black ; 

 two rounded spots in front of cruciform elevation, and two smaller ones on anterior branches of the same, 

 also black. Abdomen somewhat thickly covered with pale pubescence, with a series of discal segmental 

 markings, two large spots near lateral margins of third and fourth segments, and a lateral segmental row 

 of small spots, black. Underside of body pale ochraceous. Apical disk of abdomen black. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline ; transverse veins at bases of second and third apical areas, slightly 

 infuscated. 



Face convex. Apical two-thirds with a narrow central sulcation, transversely striated, the striae 

 black near centre. Eostrum slightly passing posterior coxae, its apex black. Opercula small ; posterior 

 margins obtusely angulated, and reaching base of first abdominal segment, widened and obtusely angulated, 

 but not meeting inwardly. Posterior tibiie with three inner and two outer marginal spines. Anterior 

 femora with two long and prominent spines. 



Long. excl. tegm. ^ , 30 millim. Exp. tegm. 87 millim. 



Hab.— Burma (Calc. Mus.) ; Teinzo (Pea— Genoa Mus.). Upper Tenasserim (coll. Dist.). 



