608 MONOGEAPH OF THE AUSTRALIAN CICADID.E, 



Ilah. — South Australia; one male in the Macleay Museum. 



This species, which resembles T. aurata, is much larger, apex 

 of anal appendage not infuscated, and is covered with long black 

 hairs. 



*TlBICEN COLEOPTRATUS, Walk. 



1850. Cicada id., List Hom. Brit. Mus. p. 223. 



Head narrower than apex of pronotum; black, with a short 

 median stripe, and sides of front border, yellow; front black, 

 lateral borders and sides of face ferruginous; rostrum tawny, tip 

 black, reaching apex of middle coxse. Pronotum fuscous, front 

 and lateral borders, and sometimes an obsolete median stripe, 

 with outer portion of posterior border, yellow. Mesonotum fus- 

 cous-black, lateral borders and scutellum yellow; sides and cruci- 

 form elevation with yellow hairs. Teymina vitreous, tinged with 

 golden bronze; short; costa red, venation piceous; postcostal 

 marginal space percurrently broad; bases of first, second and 

 third apical areas and clavus infuscated. Wings vitreous, tinged 

 with brown near base; venation yellow. Abdomen black, hind 

 borders of segments narrowly edged with dark 3'ellow. Bodi/ 

 below yellow; chest variegated with fuscous; abdomen broadly 

 banded with fuscous; opercula short, broad, not touching at 

 inner borders. Leys yellow; femora, tips of tibice, and tarsi, 

 piceous. Long. corp. 15 mm.; exp. teg. 30 mm. 



Hah. — Victoria; S. Australia; several examples in the National 

 Museum, Melbourne, and the Macleay Museum, Sydney. 



■^TlBICEX OCCIDENTALIS, Sp.nOV. 



Head much depressed, yellow, with a fuscous band passing 

 across head between eyes; ocelli much nearer to each other than 

 to the eyes; front very prominent, convex, with a median sulcus 

 not reaching apex, sides of clypeus and a spot on each side at 

 base of face fuscous; rostrum yellow, reaching middle coxae, 

 antenme fuscous. Pronotum yellow, narrower than head, sides 

 parallel, hind angles barely evident, hind border medium; disc 

 with a reddish broad median stripe. Mesonotum yellow, the 

 disc darker, with two obconical fuscous stripes at middle of base, 



