256 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF CICADID^ FROM 



CEYLON. 



Cji_^ By W. L. Distant. 



^COSMOPSALTRIA GAMAMEDA, Sp. n. 



3" . Head and pronotum greenish ochraceous — possibly pale green 

 in fresh specimens ; head, front with black carinae on each side, leaving 

 a pale spot at base and a smaller spot at apex, vertex with the area of 

 the ocelli connected obliquely with a lateral streak, black, eyes piceous; 

 pronotum with two central discal lines connected at anterior margin, 

 two contiguous converging spots near centre of posterior margin, the 

 margins and incisures black ; mesonotum with a central discal line, 

 on each side of which is a broader curved lineate fascia, followed by 

 two small spots on anterior maigin, a lineate fascia on each lateral 

 area, and a small spot near each anterior angle of the cruciform 

 elevation, black; abdomen brownish ochraceous, the lateral and basal 

 areas paler ochraceous, with a small central black spot on basal 

 segment; sternum, rostrum, and legs pale ochraceous, abdomen 

 beneath brownish ochraceous ; basal margin of face, excluding central 

 spot, striated with black, and a black fascia between face and eyes ; 

 apices of femora and tibiae more or less piceous. Tegmina and wings 

 hyaline, the venation ochraceous, here and there tinged with fuscous. 

 Body robust, oblong, slightly greyishly tomentose ; face not pro- 

 minently gibbous, obliquely transverse and moderately striate ; rostrum 

 reaching apex of posterior coxae, its apex piceous ; opercula short, 

 subtriangular, a little sinuate outwardly, obliquely straight inwardly, 

 apices subacutely rounded and reaching the third abdominal segment. 



? . Abdomen above reddish ochraceous. 



Long. excl. tegm. <? 39, $ 31 millim. ; exp. tegm. <? 110, 

 ? 105 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Pundalu-oya (E. E. Green). 



Allied in markings above tQC. vibrans, Walk., but a larger 

 species, with a broader head and the opercula altogether different. 



Synonymical Note. 



Mr. Matsumura, who has studied Dr. Horvarth's types at 

 Budapest, and who recently passed through London on his 

 return to Japan, informed me that^ Le-ptopsaltria japonica, Horv. 

 = Pomponia japonensis, Dist. ; both descriptions published in 

 1892. He wished to know the date of publications, and I have 

 looked into the question. 



.{\}UPomponia japonensis. 



Pomponia japonensis, Dist., Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 102 

 (Part V. pp. 97-120, May, 1892). 

 ^ Leptopsaltria japonica, Horv. Termesz. Fiizetek, xv. p. 136 

 (October 31st, 1892). 



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