584 MONOGEAPH OF THE AUSTRALIAN CICADID^E, 



less symmetrical body, the head and thorax being relatively 

 wider, the unspotted head and thorax, the longer second apical 

 area to the tegmina, etc. [Distant]. 



^Cicada intersecta, Walk. 



1850. Fidicina id.. List Horn. Brit. Mus. p. 97. 



Fidicina internata^ Walk., id. p. 98. 



Fidicina prasina^ Walk., id. p. 100. 

 Body tawny. Head equal in breadth to base of pronotum; a 

 short band on vertex with branches forward and backward, 

 and region of ocelli, black; front very convex, with two broad 

 black stripes, between which frequently is a slender line; rostrum 

 tawny, tip black, reaching middle coxae. Pronotum with two or 

 three black dots near hind border, furrows same colour; more or 

 less tinged with green. Mesonotum with four stripes, outer pair 

 longer and excavated, a curved spot in front of cruciform eleva- 

 tion, black. Teg7nina vitreous, costa pale green, apical part 

 dusk}^; interior vein black, venation otherwise reddish. Wings 

 vitreous, base and exterior vein of anal area fuscous. Abdomen 

 with base of segments black, last segment and anal appendage 

 broadly yellow, a black dot on the latter. Body below yellow, 

 abdomen with a broad piceous band which does not reach apex. 

 Legs yellow, thighs near base, front and middle tibiae and tarsi, 

 ferruginous. Long. corp. 28 mm.; exp. teg. 90 mm. 



Hah. — Port Essington, North Aust. (Walk.) ; Port Denison, 

 Townsville, Q. 



Genus Psaltoda, Stal. 



1866. Hemip. Afric. iv. p. 6. 



Head very broad; front occupying one-third breadth of face; 

 with eyes much broader than front of pronotum. Pronotum with 

 lateral margins attenuated, dilated from base, suddenly rounded 

 in front of middle and obtuse; front angles not produced, usually 

 covered by sides of head. Tegmina with eight apical areas; 

 basal area as long as wide; two ulnar veins distant at base; interior 

 ulnar area dilated towards apex; postcostal space linear. Wings 



