BY F. W. CODING AND W. W. FROGGATT. 587 



central obconical spots, on each side of which is a much longer 

 and more angulated spot, and a large broad spot, elongated 

 and narrowly pointed anteriorly, situated in front of cruciform 

 elevation, black ; cruciform elevation bright ochraceous, with 

 the anterior branchlets black. Scutellum black, Tegmina pale 

 hyaline; veins fuscous, ochraceous towards base; costal membrane 

 bright ochraceous; transverse veins at bases of second and third 

 apical areas infuscated. Wings pale hyaline; veins fuscous and 

 ochraceous. Abdomen orange-yellow; first abdominal segment 

 with centre of basal margin and lateral sides of apical margin 

 black. Body beneath bright ochraceous; face, anterior margins 

 of head, inner margins of ej'^es, anterior and intermediate tibiae 

 and tarsi and base of metasternum black. Femora ochraceous, 

 streaked with black. Rostrum pitchy, ochraceous towards base. 

 The face is long, broad, and very convex, with a narrow central 

 sulcation and strong transverse striations; the rostrum reaches 

 posterior coxae. The opercida are broad, produced, angulated, 

 and slightly overlapping interiorly, subtruncate outwardly, 

 rounded posteriorly, and not reaching anterior margin of tym- 

 pana. Long. corp. 48; exp. teg. 120 mm. 



Hah. — Australia, Rockhampton, Q. (Distant). 



This species differs from P. moerens, Germ., not only by its 

 large size and brighter and different colouration, but also by the 

 broader and more convex face, somewhat shorter rostrum, longer 

 and not apically compressed abdomen, etc. 



*PSALTODA FLAVESCENS, Dist. 



1892. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) x. p. 55. 



(J. Head ochraceous; the base and lateral areas of front, the 

 area of the ocelli, a broad fascia between the eyes, a central basal 

 fascia and a linear spot near anterior angles of vertex black. 

 Pronotiim with the disc castaneous, the lateral and posterior 

 margins and a central fascia ochraceous; inner edge of lateral 

 and posterior margins, a central spot on posterior margin, the 

 furrows, and the margins of the central fascia fuscous black. 

 Mesonotum castaneous, with four obconical black spots, the 



