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quent as it is generally said to be, for the conditions which appear to 

 favour the occurrence of tubercle seem to be absent in your country. 



You must not be disappointed if the veterinarians pooh-pooh your 

 observations. It is the best proof that you can have that they are really 

 original ; and I think you are doing good service by showing the occur- 

 rence of two parasites belonging to two kingdoms in one and the same 

 animal, and even in one and the same tumour. 



I hope that if you have any material to spare you will send us some 

 over, as now that the British Institute of Preventive Medicine is in work- 

 ing-order I shall be able, to get the pathological anatomy worked out in 

 London. Yours very truly, 



M. Armand Ruffeb. 



Akt. XLII. — Notes on the Cicadidae of Netv Zealand. 



By W. F. KiRBY, F.L.S., F.E.S., Assistant in Zoological 

 Depai*tment, British Museum (Natural History), South 

 Kensington, London. 



Communicated by G. V. Hudson, F.E.S. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 26th February, 



1896.] 



Through the kindness of Mr. G. V. Hudson I have lately re- 

 ceived a very interesting series of specimens, which will enable 

 me to clear up the synonymy of most of the New Zealand 

 species of Cicadidce. 



Very few species are at present known, all of which belong 

 to the genus Mclampsalta, Amyot, which may be recognised 

 by the long narrow basal cell of the tegmina, from the lower 

 and outer angle of which one nervure only, which soon bifur- 

 cates, is emitted, instead of two.''' 



This genus is widely distributed in the Old World, but is 

 particularly numerous in the Australian region, where it is the 

 largest and one of the most characteristic genera of CicadidcB. 



A list of the Cicadidce of New Zealand was published by 

 Captain Hutton in 1873, in which twelve species were enume- 

 rated ; and in 1879 Dr. Buchanan White published a revised 

 list in the Entomologists Monthly Magazine, xv., pp. 213, 214, 

 describing one species, but reducing the total number to nine. 

 Since then Mr. Hudson has discussed the New Zealand species 

 in the "Transactions of the New Zealand Institute," vol. xxiii., 

 and in his " Manual of New Zealand Insects." 



The species now known to me are as follow : — 



* For tegmina of M. cingnlata see figure on pi. ix., Trans, N.Z. Inst,, 

 vol. xxiii. 



