590 MONOGRAPH OF THE AUSTRALIAN CICADID^^, 



*PSALT0DA ARGENTATA, Germ. 



1834. Cicada id., Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. p. 66. 



1850. Cicada plaga, Walk., List Horn. Brit. Mus. p. 109. 

 Cicada a7'gentata (I), List, etc., p. 110. 



Pale yellow to ferruginous. Head somewhat broader than prono- 

 tum; a broad irregular black band on vertex; front convex, green, 

 or a greenish stripe on middle, sides and streaks black; rostrum 

 tawny, tip black, passing hind coxje; antennae ferruginous. P?'o- 

 notum fuscous-olivaceous or ferruginous, with a yellow stripe 

 bordered with black, furrows and sides black ; hind border 

 greenish or fuscous, sometimes tawny. Mesonotum light ferru- 

 ginous, with four obconical spots, outer pair longer with inner 

 sides excavated with ferruginous; between middle pair a slender 

 black stripe, broadened towards apex, uniting with a curved 

 transverse band in front of cruciform elevation. Tegmina 

 vitreous, green at base, basal half of costa and veins green, there- 

 after piceous. Wings vitreous, venation tawny. Abdomen ob- 

 conical, black above, hind borders of segments ferruginous, that 

 colour sometimes occupying the entire lateral portions; on each 

 side a large patch of silvery tomentum; tip with black marks; 

 below paler, sometimes with three black longitudinal stripes. 

 Legs tawny, femora streaked with black, tips of tibia^, and tarsi 

 piceous. Long. corp. 34-40; exp. teg. 90-100 mm. 



Hah. — Australia (Germar) ; New South Wales (Walker); 

 Brisbane, Q. (Tllidge, Try on). 



^PSALTODA HARRISII, Leacll. 



1814. Tettigonia id., Zool. Misc. i. p, 89, pi. 39, fig. 1. 



1835. Cicada dichroa, Boisd., Voy. Astr. p. 612, pi. 10, fig. 7. 

 1850. Fidicina snbguitata, Walk., List Hom. Brit. Mus. p. 95. 



Head ferruginous, a transverse band extending across vertex, 

 another at base of front, a large spot in region of ocelli, and 

 basal border, black; front ferruginous, base and transverse streaks, 

 black; rostrum reaching bases of hind cox?e. Pronotum ferru- 

 ginous, two central parallel stripes, furrows, front border, and a 

 transverse curved narrow streak in front of hind border, black; 



