086 MONOGRAPH OF THE AUSTRALIAN CICADID.f:, 



:apex yellow. Tegmina vitreous, venation piceous, basal area 

 vitreous; the three exterior anastomoses and tips of longitudinal 

 veins infuscated. Wings vitreous, venation yellow, basal half of 

 anterior margin darker, tips of longitudinal veins infuscated. 

 Abdomen black above. Body below yellow, base and lateral 

 margins fuscous; chest white pilose, black and yellow variegated. 

 Legs black, streaked with yellow. Long. corp. 36 mm.; exp. teg. 

 115 mm. 



Hah. — Australia (Germar); Adelaide, S.A. (Tepper) ; Mel- 

 bourne, Vic. (McCoy); Brisbane, Q. (Illidgeand De Vis); Sydne}^ 

 Uralla, Orange, &c., N.S.W.; Tasmania. 



The Black Cicada or "Red-eye" is seldom found in our gardens, 

 but frequents the trunks and branches of the smooth-stemmed 

 Eucalypts, often congregating in considerable numbers in sheltered 

 localities. They bury their beaks in the bark, sucking up the 

 sap so freely that they are constantly discharging from the anus 

 a fine stream of liquid which falls in a fine spray below. The 

 note of the male, shrill at first, ends in a series of squeaks, and 

 can be heard at a considerable distance. 



This species is very abundant in the open forest country of 

 Gippsland and Sydney, running out towards Southern Queensland 

 on the north and Adelaide to the west. 



*PSALT0DA AURORA, Dist. 



1881. Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 644. 



(J. ^eao? black; vertex with a spot at anterior lateral margins; 

 two transverse spots on each side of disc, near anterior margins, 

 ocelli and eyes ochraceous. Pronotiim dull, obscure ochraceous, 

 with two central longitudinal black fasciae, more separated, 

 and widest apart at anterior margin, much closer together 

 near posterior margin, where they are joined to a broad 

 basal central fascia of the same colour; an obscure arcuated 

 fascia on each side of disc, and oblique striae also black. Pos- 

 terior and lateral margins bright ochraceous, narrowly edged 

 with black. Mesonotum dark, obscure ochraceous, with two 



