78 ORIENTAL CICADID^. 



C. Abdomen short and robust ; tympanal coverings largely developed. 



19. Pomponia kama. (Tab. VI,, fig. 12, a, h.) 



Pomponia kama, Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. G43 ; Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 228, u. 65 (1885). 



<? . Head, pronotum and mesonotum greenish. Head with the lateral sides of the front black ; vertex 

 with two transverse lines on lateral margins, somewhat connected inwardly by a short oblique fascia and 

 area of ocelli, from which proceed two narrow fascia to posterior margin, black. Pronotum with a central 

 black clavate fascia, of which the centre is ochraceous, widest and much angulated at anterior margin, 

 narrowest and somewhat acutely pointed on posterior margin ; an arcuated narrow fascia on each side of 

 disk ; oblique striae pale fuscous ; lateral submarginal strias black, and an oblique fuscous spot on lateral 

 margins; posterior margui narrowly edged with black. Mesonotum with two large obconical spots 

 margined with black, and a large A fascia in front of anterior angles of basal cruciform elevation. 

 Tympanal coverings pale greenish, fuscous anteriorly, and bright cretaceous white near lateral margins. 

 Abdomen castaneous ; lateral margins of basal segment bright cretaceous-white. Body beneath with the 

 head, sternum, and opercula greenish; abdomen castaneous. Legs greenish; apices of tibife and tarsi 

 and the tarsal claws black. 



Tegmina pale fuscous hyaline ; anastomoses and apices of lateral veins at margin broadly infuscated, 

 and a blackish spot near termination of radial vein. Wings pale hyaline. 



Face broad and convex, the centre blackish, and with a central longitudinal impression, and transverse 

 striations. Eostrum with the apex black, and just passing posterior coxae. Opercula very short, not 

 reaching base of first abdominal segment. Abdomen beneath deeply sulcated at lateral margins ; the disk 

 somewhat gibbous. Head, including eyes, narrower than base of pronotum, about equal to base of 

 mesonotum. 



Long. excl. tegm. ^ , 18 millim. Exp. tegm. 66 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India : North Lidia, Darjeeling (coll. Dist. — Calc. Mus.). Malayan Archipelago: 

 Java (coll. Sign.). 



20. Pomponia pallidiventris. (Tab. VI., fig. 14, a, h.) 



P. [Oncotympana) ■pallidiventris, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1870, p. 710, u. 2, Tab. VIII., fig. 21. 



" Pallide olivaceo-flavescens ; regione ocellorum, margine imo laterali verticis ad oculos, clypeo dorso 

 apicem versus, vittis duabus angustis valde appropinquatis mediis vittisque indeterminatis tribus lateralibus 

 disci thoracis, vitta media subpercurrente, maculis duabus oblongo-obtriangularibus anticis et vitta laterali 

 prope illas, posterius abbreviata, scutelli, macula media segmentorum dorsalium duorum basalium 

 segmentisque dorsalibus reliquis abdominis, femoribus anticis basin versus et apice, tibiis omnibus basi, 

 anterioribus etiam apice, articulo ultimo tarsorum anteriorum, spina subbasali femorum anticorum apiceque 

 rostri nigricantibus; tegminibus alisque vitreis, venis tegmiuum ante medium olivaceo-flavescentibus, hie 

 illic nigris, pone medium nigricantibus,. vena apicem areolae basilis terminante nigra." 



" 3- . Segment© primo abdominis segmento secundo vix latiore, lobis tym^mna tegentibus olivaceo- 

 virescentibus ; operculis transversis, distantibus posterius oblique rotundatis." 



" P. expanses, Walk., aflinis, minor, capite angustiore, vertice oculis tantum dimidio latiore, fronte 

 a supero visa latiore, jugis angustioribus, segmento basali abdominis maris utrimque minus inflato, ventre 

 olivaceo-flavescente, pictura capitis et ceteris differt. Caput scutello paullo angustius ; fronte a supero visa 

 antice apice jugorum fere duplo latiore, obtuse rotundata, ab infero visa modice convexa, supra medium 

 rugis transversis medio interruptis instructa. Thorax limbo postico angusto, marginibus lateralibus 

 antrorsum convergentibus, levissime dilatatis, medio sinuatis, ante sinum in dentem parvum prominulis. 

 Tegmina venis ulnaribus basi paullo distantibus, prima fere in medio inter aream basalem et stigma 

 furcata, area ulnari interiore augustiuscula, apice oblique truncata, marginibus lateralibus parallelis ; area 

 apicali octava saltern triplo longiore quam medio latiore, paullo ante medium latissima et hinc anastomosin 



