580 MONOGEAPH OF THE AUSTEALIAN CICADID^E, 



*CiCADA ANGULARis, Germ. 



1834. Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. p. 68. 



1850. Fidicina id., Walk., Lisfc Horn. Brit. Mus. p. 78. 

 1859. Stal, Fr. Eug. Omk. Jord. Zool. iv., Hem. p. 269. 

 1895. Macrouistria id., Frogg., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. p. 529. 

 1903. Jlacroiiistria id., Frogg., Agr. Gaz. N.S.W. p. 418; and 

 Misc. Pub. No. 643, p. 8, pi. 2, fig. 1. 



Head width of base of pronotum, black, a large spot at inner 

 border of eyes, front border, a spot on base of front, and some 

 smaller spots, yellow; front prominent, b]ack; rostrum black, 

 reaching posterior coxae. Pronotuin black, with three yellow 

 spots, the middle one elongated, the posterior border ferruginous. 

 Mesonotum black, with four (sometimes six) yellow spots, the 

 outer pair longer and narrower; crucial elevation and scutellum 

 ferruginous, pilose on each side. Teginina vitreous, venation 

 yellow, basal area fuscous, apical areas margined with fuscous. 

 Wings vitreous, inner border at base, and outer margin of anal 

 area, with median vein of clavus, broadly ferruginous. Abdomen 

 black. Body below dark ferruginous, pilose; apical segment of 

 female emarginate; opercula ferruginous, short, apex broadly 

 rounded, overlapping. Chest variegated with black. Legs ferru- 

 ginous, tibia? and tarsi blackish. Long. corp. ^ 45 mm.; ^50 mm.; 

 exp. teg. 120; $ 140 mm. 



Hah. — Sydney (Stiil); Brisbane, Q. (Illidge, De Vis); Adelaide, 

 S. Aust. (Tepper); Victoria; Sydne}', Newcastle, N.S.W. 



This species is common about the Sydney bush in midsummer, 

 and is known as the " Fiddler," from the fancied resemblance of 

 its call note to the sound of a fiddle. It has a wide range, but 

 its headquarters appear to be in the neighbourhood of Sydney 

 to Newcastle. 



* Cicada sylvan a. List. 



1901. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 591, pi. 16, fig. 1. 



(J. Head pale olivaceous-green; front castaneous, ochraceous at 

 base with a central piceous spot, vertex with central area behind 

 front ochraceous, the ocelli bright castaneous margined with black. 



