BY F. W. GODING AND W. W. FROGGATT. 623- 



slightly convex, not prominent, red on each side ; eyes rather 

 prominent; antennae black, stout; rostrum black, reaching middle 

 coxie. Pronotum a little narrower in front than behind, with a 

 slender red stripe not reaching hind border. Mesonotum with 

 sides, cruciform elevation, and hind border tinged with red. 

 Tegmina vitreous, costa dark red, rather convex; veins black, 

 tawny and marked with black at base. Wings with apical area 

 brown at base, hind border, and tips. Abdomen obconical, a 

 little longer than chest, with whitish shining down; hind borders 

 of segments, tip and below red ; opercula very small, dark red, 

 blackish towards base, wide apart. Legs black, rather hairy; 

 fore femora streaked with red, a tawny band near base of the 

 four hind tibiae; hind tibiae tawny towards base; hind tarsi tawny, 

 tips black. 



9. Abdomen a little longer than ^J, last segment red, except 

 two divergent black stripes; oviduct red. Long. corp. 1 7 mm. ; 

 exp. teg. 50 mm. 



Hah. — Tasmania (Walker); New South Wales; Victoria. 



*Paukopsalta incipiens, Walk. 

 1851. Cicada id.. List Horn. Brit. Mus. p. 189. 



$. Body black, rather short. Head broad as pronotum; front 

 rather prominent, forming very obtuse angle, a tawny mark on 

 each side in front; antennae dark tawny. Fronotum not narrower 

 in front, with or without a slight tawny stripe. Meso7iotum with 

 two wavy, tawny stripes, hind border tawny; posteriorly mostly 

 tawny. Tegmina vitreous, tawn}^ at base; costa ferruginous far as 

 middle; veins black. Abdomen tapering, tawny, much longer than 

 thorax, mostly black above at base, whence three black stripes or 

 spots decrease in size, along back, end before tip. Legs tawny, 

 striped with black, \iith. short tawny hairs. Long. corp. 10 mm.; 

 exp. tegm, 30 mm. 



Zfa6.— Adelaide, S.A. (Walker). 



■^Pauropsalta rubra, sp.nov. 

 Head pale red with irregular black lines; front very convex, 

 triangularly produced, pale red, with a broad black stripe on each 



