114 CICADID^. 



B. Tegmina almost immaculate, only bases of second and tJiird 

 apical areas infuscate. 



b, Opercula very small, inwardly and outwardly oblique, their 

 ajjices broadly convex. 



1607. Pomponia solitaria, Dist. A. M. N. H. (6) i, p. 295 (1888); 



id. Moil. Orient, dead. p. 74, t. vii, f. 17, a, h (18U1). 



Body above ochraceous ; head with two linear spots at apex 

 and two small spots at base of front, area of the ocelli, a curved 

 line before each eye, and two transverse spots on lateral areas of 

 vertex black ; pronotum Avith two central lines united at base, and 

 a curved lateral marginal line, black ; mesonotum with a central 

 longitudinal line, on each side of which is a much shorter oblique 

 line, followed by a small anterior spot, a sublateral line, and two 

 small spots in front of cruciform elevation, black ; abdomen above 

 with the segmental margins shortly palely pilose ; body beneath 

 and legs pale ochraceous ; centre of face and apex of abdomen 

 ]nore or less piceous ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the first with 

 the costal membrane and venation ochraceous, the transverse 

 veins at bases of second and third apical areas infuscated ; wings 

 with venation mostly ochraceous ; rostrum reaching apices of 

 posterior coxte. 



Length excl. tegm., d" , ^8 ; exp. tegm. 75 millim. 



Hub. Narkondam Isld. {Ind. Mus.). 



b'. Ojjercula ivith outer margins strongly oblique, apiccd margins 

 subtruncate, apices broadly and moderately convex. 



1608. Pomponia thalia. Walk. (Dimdubia) List Horn, i, p. 72 (1850) ; 



Stal (Pomponia), Berl. ent. Zeit. x, p. 171 (1866) ; Dist. Mon. 

 Orient. Clcud. p. 75, t. ix, f. 4, a, h (1891). 



Head, pronotum, and mesonotum greenish-ochraceous : head 

 with anterior transverse striae to front, area of ocelli with a curved 

 linear line on each side, two transverse spots on lateral areas of 

 vertex and inner margins of eyes black ; pronotum A\ith two 

 central fasciae united anteriorly and posteriorly, tlie incisures and 

 a spot at posterior angles black ; mesonotum with a central longi- 

 tudinal fascia, on each side of which is a short inwardly-curved 

 fascia, a sublateral fascia with its base outwardly curved, and two 

 spots in front of cruciform elevation black ; abdomen ochraceous 

 suffused with green, with a central black linear spot on each of 

 the two basal segments, a marginal series of small black spots, 

 and the last two segments more or less broadly maz'gined with 

 black ; sternum and legs pale greenish-ochraceous, abdouien 

 beneath pale ochraceous ; face with a central longitudinal and 

 transverse basal fascia, a transverse spot between base and eyes, 

 spots to coxte, subapical spot to femora, bases and apices of tibiae, 

 and apices of tarsi and rostrum black ; tegmina and wings hyaline, 

 venation ochraceous and fuscous ; tegmina with an ochraceous 



