592 MONOGRAPH OF THE AUSTRALIAN CICADID^E, 



longer than broad; interior ulnar area distinctly broader toward 

 apex; ulnar veins widely distant at base; eight apical areas. 

 Wings with six apical areas. Abdomen conical. Opercula large, 

 overlapping. Front femora spined below. 

 Type, Cicada nigra, Stoll. 



■^Cryptotympana nigra, Stoll. 



1788. Cicada nigra, Stoll, Cig. p. 84, pi. 22, fig. 118. 



1790. Cicada id., 01., Enc. Meth. v. p. 750. 



1794. Tettigonia pustulata, Fabr., Ent. Syst. iv. p. 20. 



Tettigonia atrata, Fabr., Ent. Syst. iv. p. 24. 

 1849. Cicada atra, Sign., Rev. et Mag. Zool. 



Head black; eyes grey; vertex with a sordid white spot near 

 ocelli. Tegmina and wings vitreous, with basal fourth brown, 

 blackish at base; without spots. Legs brown, variegated with 

 black. Long. corp. 47 mm.; exp. tegm. 133 mm. 



Hah. — China (Oliver); Australia; one example in the National 

 Museum, Melbourne, from Australia. 



Genus TyxMPanoterpes, Stal. 

 1866. Hemip. Afric. iv. p. 7. 



Body oblong. Front convex. Pronotuni with lateral margins 

 flattened out, destitute of lateral denticles. Metasterrtum not or 

 very lightly elevated at middle where it is not produced in front. 

 Tegmina vitreous, sometimes marked with black spots; basal area 

 rarely double longer than wide; ulnar veins distant at base; 

 interior ulnar area distinctly broadened toward apex; postcostal 

 marginal space with apex a little broadened. Wings with six 

 apical areas. Abdomen of female with last ventral segment not 

 or lightly emarginate. Front femora spined below. 



Type, Cicada viarginata, 01. 



Tympanoterpes HiLARis, Germ. 



1834. Cicada id., Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. p. 69. 



1850. Cicada subt'incta, Walk., List Horn. Brit. Mus. p. 147. 



Cicada albijios. Walk., id. p. 148. 

 1858. Cicada tomentosa, Walk., id. Suppl. p. 22. 



