VIAGGIO DI LAMBERTO LORIA 



NELLA PAPUASIA ORIENTALE 



XVII. 



ADDITIONS TO OUR KNOWLEDGE 



OF THE CICADIDAE OF NEW GUINEA 



BY W. L. DISTANT 



Since I completed my Monograph of the " Oriental Cicadidae " 

 in which I included all the then described species from New 

 Guinea, Dr. L. Loria has made many captures on that Island 

 which have been submitted to me for identification by Dr. Gestro. 



These have proved to be almost all undescribed species, show- 

 ing that the Cicadan fauna of New Guinea has a very distinct 

 specific character of its own. I use the word " specific " ad- 

 visedly, for the genera as a rule are found throughout the 

 Malayan region. 



The genera Poecilopsallria and Platy pleura which have a wide 

 distribution eastward as far as the Moluccas, are still unrecorded 

 from New Guinea. One of the greatest novelties in this collection 

 is an exceeding large species of the genus Pomponia. I have 

 also been compelled to found a new genus. 



1. Cosmopsaltria Loriae, n. sp. — Head and thorax above 

 brownish-olivaceous; eyes, area of the ocelli; tw 7 o central fasciae, 

 the incisures, two discal spots, sublateral and posterior margins, 

 and a streak on the anterior lateral margins of pronotum ; two 

 anterior obconical spots, on each side of which are three small 

 lineate spots, and the posterior disk of mesonotum pale casta- 

 neous. Head and thorax beneath and legs olivaceous , the face 

 pale greenish ; apex of the rostrum , anterior and intermediate 



