622 MONOGRAPH OF THE AUSTRALIAN CICADID.E, 



costa angulate at middle, pale yellow, darker towards apex; veins 

 dark yellow. Wings with veins yellow. Abdomen black, apical 

 borders of segments j^ellow ; anal appendage fuscous-yellow. 

 Bodi/ below sordid yellow; opercula very small, distant; abdo- 

 men yellow, base of segments and tip fuscous; ovipositor yellow, 

 tip black. Legs yellow, striped with black. Long. corp. 12 mm.; 

 exp. teg. 30 mm. 



Bab. — Ferrishaw and Kewell, Vic; Lucindale, S. A.; two pairs, 

 in the National Museum, Melbourne, and South Australian 

 Museum. 



■^Pauropsalta encaustica. Germ. 



1834. Cicada id., Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. p. 62. 



1850. Cicada arclus, Walk., List Hom. Brit. Mus. p. 184. 



Cicada juvenis, Walk., ibid. p. 188. 



Cicada dolens, Walk., ibid. p. 190. 

 Head black, with a pale occipital line; rostrum black, tawny 

 near base, reaching middle cox8e. Fronotum narrower than head, 

 black, hind border red or yellow, sometimes a red or yellow spot 

 near front border; hind angles produced horizontally. Mesonotum 

 black, pilose, with four stripes and apex, j-ellow; in some examples 

 the borders only are red and yellow, while others have but two 

 red or yellow stripes. Teginina vitreous, costa yellowish, some- 

 times bordered with black; venation testaceous, blackish towards 

 apex. Wings vitreous, venation fuscous, apex of anal area 

 infuscated. Abdomen black, apical margins of segments red or 

 yellow; much longer than chest. Body below j^ellowish, with an 

 obsolete fuscous stripe. Opercula short, widely separated, yellow, 

 disc pale. Leys yellow, marked with black. Long. corp. 15 mm.; 

 exp. teg. 36-50 mm. 



^a6.- -Australia (Germar) ; Port Stephens, New Holland 

 (Walker) ; Mittagong, N.S.W. 



*Pauropsalta mneme. Walk. 

 1850. Cicada id., List Hom. Brit. Mus. p. 181. 

 Cicada antica, Walk., ibid. p. 182. 

 Head and chest clothed with short black hairs; head hardl}^ 

 narrower than pronotum, with a slender interrupted stripe; front 



