knowledge of the Family Cicadidie. 671 



front of the basal cruciform elevation ; abdomen above ocliraceous, 

 with transverse more or less broken black fascite ; head beneath, 

 sternum, opercula, and legs greenish-ochraceons ; apices of tarsi 

 black ; abdomen beneath as above. 



Tegmina with about basal third greenish-ochraceous, opaque, 

 mottled with brown and with a transverse brown fascia at its 

 extremity ; remaining area semi-hyaline, the veins and other 

 macular markings fuscous ; wings with about basal half ocliraceous, 

 with a large piceous spot on its outer margin, remaining area 

 semi-hyaline, the veins ochraceous. 



Head including eyes much narrower than anterior margin of 

 mesonotum ; lateral margins of pronotum strongly angularly ampli- 

 ated ; rostrum mutilated ; opercula bruad and short, not passing 

 the posterior margin of the first abdominal segment and a little 

 overlapping at their inner angles. 



Long. excl. tegm. $ . 25 millim. Exp. tegm. 73 millim. 

 Hah. East Africa; Kikuya. 



Cosmopsaltria hhadiga, sp. n. (PI. XXX, fig. 9, «, l.) 



Body somewhat short and Inroad, brownish-ochraceous ; head with 

 transverse fasciate lines to front, and suffusions on disc of vertex,- 

 pronotum with two central longitudinal lines and the incisures, 

 mesonotum with two obconical spots on anterior margin, a large 

 discal lanceolate spot between them, a spot on each side of them on 

 anterior margin, a longitudinal fascia, profoundly notched anteriorly, 

 on each lateral area, and a spot in front of anterior angles of basal 

 cruciform elevation, abdomen with base and central spot to first 

 segment, and central anterior margins of second and third segments, 

 black ; body beneath and legs pale ochraceous, a spot at inner 

 margin of eyes and spots near base of rostrum, black. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, the venation fuscous. 



5 . Opercula long, reaching the apical abdominal segment, their 

 apices angularly rounded, outwardly sinuate near base, inwardly 

 slightly convex; face centrally sulcate, transversely striate; rostrum 

 reaching the posterior coxie. 



Long. excl. tegm. ^. 29 millim. Exp. tegm. 85 millim. 



Hob. Malay Peninsula ; Pahang (Craddoch). 



I have to thank Col. Bingham for the series of speci- 

 mens on which this species is founded. It is allied to 

 C. tripurasiira, Dist. 



Pomponia surya, sp. n. (PI. XXX, fig. 2, a, 5.) 

 Head and mesonotum piceous ; pronotum ochraceous ; head with 

 an apical spot to front, lateral margins of vertex, and the ocelli, 



