BY F. W. CODING AND W. W. FROGGATT. 607 



a median broad stripe black; opercula pale pink, small, wide 

 apart. Legs yellow, front tibiae, and streaks elsewhere, black. 

 Long. Corp. 19-23 mm.; exp. teg. 40-54 mm. 



I Jab. — Tasmania (Walker) ; Melbourne, Vic; Clyde River, 

 Currie Creek, Moruya, N.S.W. 



This handsome little cicada is found in ferntree gullies, and 

 in such localities in Gippsland and Tasmania is common in the 

 summer, having a sharp distinctive call-note. 



*TlBICEN HIRSUTUS, Sp.nOV. 



Black, covered with long black hairs. Head black, a spot on 

 base of vertex and three spots on front border ochraceous, 

 covered with long black hairs; front strongly convex, prominent, 

 a spot at base, and borders ochraceous, covered with long black 

 hairs; rostrum fuscous-ferruginous, hairy, reaching tips of middle 

 coxae; ocelli equidistant from each other and eyes. Pronolum black, 

 covered with long black hairs, narrower in front than head, sides 

 broadly convex, expanded at middle in a large, flat, acuminate 

 tooth on each side; a narrow median stripe and a spot on each 

 side of fore border ochraceous; hind angles very prominent; hind 

 border median. Mesoiiotum black, lateral borders and two small 

 spots on disc ochraceous; covered with black hairs. Tegmina 

 broad, short, anterior ulnar area with apex double the width of 

 base; venation pale ferruginous, lightly marked with fuscous, the 

 two exterior anastomoses infuscated. Wings with veins ochra- 

 ceous, marginal vein black; anal area milky towards base, the 

 apex not infuscated; tegmina and wings have a bluish opalescent 

 tinge. Abdomen stout, as long as head and thorax, covered with 

 short black hairs which create an appearance of velvet, anal 

 borders of segments dark ochraceous and covered with golden 

 hairs. Body below ; chest black, covered with long black hairs 

 and with ochraceous lines; opercula broad, a little distant, hind 

 border broadly rounded, fuscous. Abdomen black, hind borders 

 of segments dark ochraceous. Legs black marked with yellow, 

 hind tibiae yellow. Long. corp. 25 mm. ; lat. 9 mm. ; exp. teg. 

 51 mm. 



