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BY F. W. GODING AND W. W. FHOGGATT. 581 



Pronotuin olivaceous-green, with a large ocliraceousdiscal spot on 

 each side. Me><onotum ochraceous, with two large but very 

 obscure central obconical spots at anterior margin, the outer 

 margins of which are intensely black; cruciform basal elevation 

 ochraceous. Tegmina and wings pale hyaline with the venation 

 fuscous; costal membrane, upper half of basal area and a subbasal 

 streak olivaceous-green; a submarginal series of small fuscous spots 

 near apices of longitudinal veins to apical areas; wings with some 

 basal lineate fuscous streaks. Abdomen above more or less piceous 

 and obscurely greyishly pilose, posterior margins of the second, 

 third, and fourth segments and nearly the whole of the fifth and 

 sixth segments, brownish-ochraceous. Body beneath with face 

 castaneous centrally piceous; sternum thickly greyishl}'- pilose 

 with its margins olivaceous-green, abdomen brownish-ochraceous, 

 sparingly grejdshly pilose, in the female a central darker fascia; 

 legs castaneous; coxse, apices of femora and bases of tibise 

 ochraceous, hind tibiae palest. 



^. Opercula ochraceous, about meeting internally, lateral 

 margins obliquely rounded, apices convex. 



Long. (J 42, 9 40; ex. teg. 120 mm. 



Hah. — North Queensland, Cairns [Distant]. 



^'Cicada hiekoglyphica, sp.nov. 



Head broad, short, front border strongly produced, lemon 

 yellow, a fuscous band passing across vertex between eyes, and 

 base of front fuscous; front almost globular, strongly produced, 

 lemon yellow, with lateral fuscous striations which are obsolete 

 except near base, sides of face yellow covered with long white 

 hairs; clypeus fuscous, hairy; rostrum black, base yellow, tip 

 reaching apices of hind coxse. Pronotum lemon yellow, a broad 

 central stripe posteriorly passing into a broad transverse band 

 each end of which is broadened into a large spot on the sides; 

 furrows, spot on each side of central stripe, posterior and lateral 

 edges, fuscous; lateral borders sinuate; the arrangement of the 

 markings reminds one of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Mesonotum 

 fuscous, a large triangular spot on each side of disc posteriorly, 



