144 BORNEAN CICADIDAE, 
have named “kriang t pokul anam” or “the six 
o'clock Cicada,” is a giant; one of the specimens we got 
measured nearly 74 inches across the wings. It begins 
at sunset and the noise it makes is not unlike the braying 
of an ass in high treble, and can be heard at a distance’ 
of many hundred yards.” The largest specimen, a male, 
in the Sarawak Museum is just short of 8 inches; and 
Mr. Distant records a female 216 mm., (or 8% inches) 
across, from Perak. 
I have heard it myself in many places in Sarawak, be- 
ginning as a rule a little before 6 p.m., and I can confirm 
_ Dr. Beccari’s description of its song. 
46. Pomponia merula, Dist. 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xv. p. 68 (1905). 
Id. Syn. Cat. Hom. p. 68 (1906). 
Sandakan (W. B. Pryer); Borneo (Brooke-Low, Hose 
and Everett); Lohabau (R. Oberthur—Paris Mus.). 
Java is the only other habitat recorded for this species. 
47. Pomponia diffusa, Bredd. 
Abh. Senckenb. Gen. xxv. p. 179 (1900). 
Dist. Syn. Cat. Hom. p. 68 (1906). 
Island of Banguey (coll. Noualhier—Paris Mus.); 
Lawas, Limbang, Kapit, Kuching and Mt. Penrissen— 
taken in March to June and August (Sar. Mus.). 
This species in confined to Borneo. 
48. Ponponia graecona, Dist. 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) iii. p. 421 (1889). 
Id. Mon. O-‘ent. Cicad. p. 70, t. x. f. 8, a, 6 (1890). 
Ic. Syn. Cat. Hom. p. 68 (1906) 
+ kriang § es is the Sarawak-Malay word fur Cicada. The 
usual] Malay word is bringin Cyas > 
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