596 MONOGRAPH OF THE AUSTRALIAN CICADID.E, 



12( 13). Wings with six apical areas MELAMPSAiiTA. 



1 3(12). Wings with five apical areas Pauropsalta. 



14(11). Basal area of tegmina emitting two ulnar veins. 



15(20). Abdomen of male inflated. 



16(17). Tegmina with eight apical areas; wings with six 



apical areas; eyes directed obliquely backward ... Kanakia. 



17(16). Tegmina with eleven or more apical areas; eyes 

 normal. 



18(19). Wings with five apical areas Chlokocysta. 



19(18). Wings with six apical areas Glaucopsaltria. 



20(15). Abdomen of male not inflated. 



21(22). Tegmina with eight apical areas; ulnar veins dis- 

 tant at base; front moderately convex; opercula 

 contiguous TiBicEN. 



22(21). Tegmina with nine apical areas; ulnar veins con- 

 tiguous at base, briefly parallel; front very con- 

 vex; opercula small, widely separated Venustria. 



Genus Venustria, gen.nov. 



Head a little broader than apex of pronotum, free from hairs; 

 front border strongly arched forward; obtuse in front; eyes large; 

 ocelli distant from base, equidistant from each other and eyes; 

 front prominent, median sulcus barely marked; apex of clypeus 

 rounded with a tubercle on each side of base; rostrum reaching 

 bases of hind coxte; vertex a little narrower than the combined 

 diameter of eyes. Fronotumnot narrowed forward, sides convex, 

 but dilated; front angles separated from eyes, produced in a tooth 

 behind which is another tooth; posterior angles foliaceous, very 

 prominent. I'egmina vitreous, tinged with golden bronze; basal 

 area narrow, more than twice longer than broad; costa and radial 

 veins separated ; ulnar veins nearly contiguous toward base; 

 interior ulnar area narrowed toward apex; exterior ulnar, and 

 third discoidal areas, broad; postcostal marginal space broadened 

 towards apex; nine apical areas, and three discoidal. Wings 

 vitreous, tinged with golden bronze; six apical areas. Abdomen 

 robust, obconical, a little longer than combined length of head 

 and pronotum; below on each side of middle is a row of prominent 



