C8 I\Ir. W, L. Distant on Ilomoptera. 



continuous to face or very sHglitly sinuate ; pronotum dis- 

 tinctly shorter tiian mesonotum, its lateral margins distinctly 

 and generally acutely toothed before middle ; abdomen con- 

 siderably longer than space between apex of head and base 

 of cruciform elevation ; tympana covered, tympanal flaps 

 about as long as broad ; rostrum reaching the posterior coxaj ; 

 opercula obliquely divergent, sometimes very short; tegmina 

 and wings hyaline. 



Type, M. tripiiraswa, Dist. (Dundubia). 



Genus POMPONIA. 



Pomponia, StSl, Hem. Afr. iv. p. G (186(5) ; Berl. eut. Zeit. x. p. 171 

 (1866). 



Type, P.fusca, Oliv. {Cicada), 



Pomponia merula^ sp. n. 



^. Body dark castaueous ; posterior and lateral margins 

 of pronotum and the sternum more or less dull ochraceous ; 

 striations to front and face, and a central spot to first, area 

 of the ocelli and a spot between them and eyes black ; black 

 markings on pro- and mesonota generally as in P. impera- 

 toria, but posterior margin of pronotum immaculate; a spot 

 between face and eyes, coxaj and femora beneath, tibiae, more 

 or less, and the opercula black ; tegmina and wings pale 

 smoky hyaline, the venation brownish ochraceous; tegmina 

 with the base, costal membrane and area, and spots on trans- 

 verse veins at apices of first, second, third, and fourth ulnar 

 areas, and near the apex of each longitudinal vein to apical 

 areas, fuscous brown ; wings with extreme base and two 

 narrow longitudinal basal streaks fuscous brown. 



Allied to P. iinperatoria, Westw., from which it differs 

 principally by the black, more transverse, and a little shorter 

 opercula, darker colour of the body above and beneath, 

 distinctly narrower and more spotted tegmina, &c. 



Long., excl. tegm., 67-72 mm.; exp. tegm. 188-194 mm. 



JIab. Borneo, 4 c? specs. {Sir II. Brooke, Lowe, Hose, (Sf 

 Everttt, Brit. Mus.). North Borneo : Sandakan {Pryer, Coll. 

 Dist.). 



Pomponia intermedia, sp. n. 



Allied to P. imperatoria, Westw., in colour and markings, 

 but differing by the length of the third apical area to the 

 tegmina, which is shorter than the fourth, while those areas 

 are about equal in length in Westwood's species ; the greatest 



