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borders sinuous, front angles produced. Mesonotum red, lateral 

 borders and disc darker, with three obsolete pale red lines on disc, 

 the outer pair curved. Tegmina vitreous, costa red on basal half 

 with outer edge pale red; veins reddish, bases of second and third 

 apical areas infuscated, the first area lightly so; basal membranes 

 pale red. Wings with veins pale red, anal area infuscated at base 

 and apex. Abdomeri red, hairy along sides. Body below pale red; 

 opercula broad, reniform, nearly touching, apical borders broadly 

 curved, pale. Abdomen darker red with an irregular median 

 fuscous stripe; covered with whitish tomentum. Long. corp. ^ 

 22 mm., 2 27 mm.; lat. 9 mm.; exp. teg. ^ 60 mm.; 9 80 mm. 



Ilab. — Rockhampton and King's Sound, N.W. A ; described 

 from several examples in the Macleay Museum. 



Like T. curvicosta, this species is densely covered with floury 

 tomentum. 



*TiBiCEN MELANOPYGius, Germ. 



1834. Cicada id., Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. p. 59. 

 186L Stal, Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr. p. 618. 



Head sind front of pronotum equal in width; front subdepressed, 

 obtuse; black, a yellow spot on vertex. Proriotum black, middle 

 line, posterior margin and lateral spots, yellow; lateral margins 

 lightly carinated, parallel, posterior border narrow. Mesonotum 

 black, two stripes on dorsum and two lateral stripes, yellow. 

 Scutellum yellow. Tegmina vitreous, venation fuscous, costa 

 pale; ulnar veins strongly approaching towards base, not con- 

 tiguous; interior ulnar area a little broader at middle, base and 

 apex equally broad. Abdomen yellow, first and last segments 

 black, margined with yellow, the others with a short black stripe 

 on dorsum; anal segment in male below oval; opercula of male 

 reniform, short, pale; middle femora black; appendix of posterior 

 trochanters triangular, apex acute, barel}' longer than width of"^ 

 base. Long. corp. 19 mm.; exp. teg. 50 mm. 



Hab. — Australia (Germar); Queensland. 

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