602 MONOGRAPH OF THE AUSTRALIAN CICADID^E, 



*TlBICEN INTERRUPTUS, Walk. 



1850. Cicada id., List Horn. Brit. Mus. p. 175. 



Head a little broader than pronotum, black, with two tawny 

 spots on hind border near ocelli; front very slightly convex, with 

 a tawnj'- spot and stripe; rostrum tawny, tip black, reaching hind 

 coxae. PronotuTYi rather short, tawny, black spots on each side 

 of furrows; hind border tawny along posterior edge. Mesonotum 

 ferruginous on each side, with one ferruginous and two tawny 

 stripes, the latter straight and longer than former; cruciform 

 elevation tawny. Tegmina vitreous, long, narrow, tawny at base, 

 and along costa; veins yellow, a slender brown band extends from 

 tip, embracing first apical area, over the anastomoses, excepting 

 the vein between the fourth and fifth. Wings vitreous, venation 

 yellow. Abdomen obconical, longer than thorax, black, ferrugi- 

 nous below; apical borders of segments ferruginous; opercula 

 small, piceous, nearly contiguous. Legs piceous, marked with 

 ferruginous and tawny. Long. corp. 17 mm.; exp. teg. 45 mm. 



Hah.—^e^y Holland (Walker). 



*TlBICEN DODDI, Sp.nOV. 



Head triangularly produced in front, ochraceous, with two 

 short stripes, in which are the ocelli, two lateral spots on disc, 

 three stripes on each side united toward disc running to front 

 border, black; front ochraceous, with a narrow stripe on each 

 side of middle, the striations, a stripe on each side of face, black; 

 rostrum ochraceous with a median line and tip black, passing hind 

 coxae, Pronotum much narrower in front than head, broadened 

 posteriori}^ the lateral and posterior borders somewhat dilated; 

 ochraceous, with two narrow median stripes not reachini; hind bor- 

 der, three submarginal spots on each side, and front edge of pos- 

 terior border, black. Mesonotum ochraceous, somewhat pubescent, 

 with four obconical infuscated stripes, inner pair shorter and bor- 

 dered with black, outer pair obsolete, two spots in front of cruci- 

 form elevation, and two short narrow discal stripes, black. Teg- 

 mina vitreous and tinged with bronze, costa, basal area, and veins 

 of basal portion, ochraceous, apical venation, a large spot on apex, 



