POMPONIA. Ill 



Genus POMPONIA. 



Pomponica, Sfal, Hem. Afr. iv, p. 6 (1866) ; Bed. ent. Zeit. x, p. 171 

 (1866) ; Bist. Mon. Orient, dead. p. 68 (1890). 



Type, P. fusca., Oliv. 



Distribution. Oriental Region, China and Japan. 



Head (including eyes) about as wide as base of mesonotum, its 

 length about or nearly equal to space between eyes, ocelli much 

 farther apart from eyes than from each other, front anteriorly 

 convex and slightly prominent ; pronotum with the lateral margins 

 moderately ampliate and sinuate, the posterior angles dilated, 

 a little shorter than mesonotum ; mesonotum with the disk 

 moderately convex ; abdomen in male longer than space between 

 apex of head aiid base of cruciform elevation, tympanal coverings 

 complete ; opercula in male short and transverse ; rostrum passing 

 posterior coxae ; anterior femora spined beneath ; tegmina and 

 wings hyaline, the first usually more or less maculate, basal ceil 

 longer than broad, apical areas eight. 



A, Tegmina maculate and marginalhj sj)otted. 



a. Ojpercida transverse, their posterior margins oblique, their 

 inner angles nearly meeting. 



1604. Pomponia fusca, Oliv. (Cicada) Enc. Meth. \, p. 749, t. cxi, 



f. 3 (1790) ; IStm (Pomponia), Berl. ent. Zeit. x, p. 171 (1866) ; 



id. Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1870, p. 710; Dist. Mon. Orient. Cicad. 



p. 70, t. vii, f. 10, a, h (1890). 

 Dinidubia Ihiearis, ciuctimauus, rainifera, urauia, Walk. List 



Horn, i, pp. 48, 53, & 64. 

 Pomponia linearis, Stdl, Berl. ent. Zeit. x. p. 171 (1866) ; Atkins. 



J. A. S. Beru/. liii, p. 228 (1885). 

 Stall, Cig. iig. 36. 



Head, pronotum, and mesonotum greeuish-ochraceous : head 

 with the anterior margin of front, an irregular central fascia to 

 vertex enclosing ocelli, a spot at inner margins of eyes, and the 

 anterior lateral angles of vertex dark olivaceous ; pronotum with a 

 broad central longitudinal fascia, two large oblique spots on each 

 lateral area, and a spot on the lateral margins brownish-olivaceous ; 

 mesonotum with a lanceolate central fascia, on each side of which 

 is a large obconical spot, followed by a small anterior spot, 

 a broad submarginal fascia, two spots in front of cruciform 

 elevation and sometimes the whole frontal area of same, brownish- 

 olivaceous ; abdomen pale castaneous, sparingly greyishly pilose, 

 the segmental margins piceous ; head beneath, sternum, and legs 

 pale greenish ; upper and apical areas of face, a spot between face 

 and eyes, anterior tibiae, apices of intermediate tibiae, a spot near 

 apices of femora, apices of anterior and intermediate tarsi, apex 

 of rostrum, and a spot between intermediate and posterior coxae 

 dark fuscous ; abdomen beneath dark ochraceous ; tegmina and 



