Reply lo Dr. Bergroth etc. 305 



by st oll (Cigales pl. XXIV, f. 132). I have now both sexes 

 of my D. mixta before me, and althoiigh it proves not to be a 

 true Duv dubia , and will probably fall into some genus allied 

 to Cicado, it is a much larger and darker insect than G. himacuhita 

 (in fact hardly congeneric) and could not possibly be confounded 

 witb it, if compared. 



Pomponia Green! Kirb. 

 Since I wrote my description, tlie rigure of P. Ransonnet f, 

 has been pnblished, and I think the two insects are really iden- 

 tical. But I failed to recognize it from Mr. Distant's descrip- 

 tion, especially as the expanse of the tegmina was misprinted 

 95 millim. instead of 59, in bis Monograph. 



Pomponia elegans Kirb. 

 The type of Terpnosia Psecas Walk. , is a female from 

 Java, wliich differs considerably from P. elegans, of which I 

 have onl}^ seen males. No further light has been thrown on 

 this question by the notice of the species in Di s tan t's Mono- 

 graph. He simply quotes Walker's description of T. Psecas, 

 and figuves an insect from Sikkira as the male. The latter has 

 a comparatively short abdomen, whereas T. elegans like the other 

 Cinghalese species, T. stipata Walk., has an unusually long one, 

 at least in the male. 



Cicada apicalis Kirb. 



Walker's Cicada nuhifurca may be a small pale speci- 

 men of this insect, but I do not think the question can be 

 decided until a larger series of these forms is received from 

 Ceylon. If however my insect proves to be congeneric with 

 G. apicnlis Germ, as Distant makes it, its name will require 

 to be changed. So much for the present as regards Distant's 

 identifications of my Gicadae ! 



I think I have now noticed everything tangible in Berg- 

 roth's "Note". It will be observed that it is simply an unpro- 

 voked personal attack, and consists merely of assertions un- 

 supported by either evidence or argument. As he has chosen 

 to print it in English , I have replied to him in the same 

 language. 



Wiener Entomologisclie Zeitung, XI. .Talirg., 10. Heft (25. December 1892). 



