568 MONOGRAPH OF THE AUSTEALIAN CICADIDJE, 



Genus Platypleura, Am. et Serv. 



1843. Hemip. p. 465. 



{Oxypleura^ Am. k, Serv., Hemip. p. 469). 

 1866. Stal, Hemip. Afric. iv. pp. 2 ifc 9. 



Head not or barely the width of scutellum, rarely narrower; 

 ocelli rarely a little more than double the distance from the eyes 

 than from each other, Pronotuni with sides much flattened out 

 horizontally, foliaceous; front angles directed towards the middle 

 of the eyes; front margin sinuate behind eyes; posterior border 

 broad. Tegmina with basal area broad; ulnar veins distant at 

 base; interior ulnar area broadened towards apex. Wings with 

 six apical areas. Opercula medium, transverse, apex rounded, 

 slightly overlapping. Front femora spined below. 



Type, Cicada stridida, Linn. 



*Platypleura tepperi, sp.nov. (Plate xviii., figs. 5-5«). 



Sordid yellow mottled with ferruginous. Head broad, sordid 

 yellow, much narrower than middle of pronotum; short, twice 

 broader than long, anterior border lightly convex; a spot occupied 

 by ocelli, a narrow stripe on each side, two spots on base of front 

 united by a curved line, ferruginous; eyes small, lightly inclined 

 backward; vertex equal in breadth to combined diameter on both 

 eyes, ocelli twice the distance from eyes as from each other; front 

 convex, not prominent, ferruginous, sides of face fuscous, a ferru- 

 ginous band across base; rostrum sordid yellow, tip black, reach- 

 ing apical border of penultimate ventral segment of abdomen. 

 Pronotum sordid yellow; short, broad, deeply furrowed; front 

 border convex; a spot on middle of front, and furrows fuscous- 

 ferruginous; lateral borders entire, broadl}^ flattened out and very 

 convex horizontally ; hind border broad, posterior angles not 

 evident. Mesonotum convex, sordid yellow, irregular obsolete 

 spots in front and at sides of cruciform elevation, fuscous-ferru- 

 ginous. Tegmina opaque, passing tip of abdomen by one-half 

 their length, sordid yellow, marbled with ferruginous, a row of 

 similar coloured spots along front border; interior ulnar area and 



