BY P. W. CODING AND W. W. FROGGATT. 625 



turn; rostrum reaching middle cox?e; face somewhat compressed, 

 centrally and longitudinally broadly sulcated for half its length, 

 and transversely striate. Long. corp. 10 mm.; exp. teg. 25 mm. 



Hah. — Peak Downs, Queensland (Distant). 



A male of this species in the Macleay Mus., Sydney, is larger, 

 abdomen lightly inflated and yellow, excepting the basal segment 

 and a stripe along the dorsum black. 



■^Pauropsalta multifascia, Walk. 



1850. Cicada id., Walk., List Horn. Brit. Mus. p. 185. 

 Cicada singida, Walk., ibid. p. 186. 

 Cicada obsciirioi', Walk., ibid. p. 187. 



Head breadth of pronotum, black, a red spot on vertex; front 

 •convex, not prominent, sometimes a spot, and sides of face, yellow; 

 rostrum black or dark red, reaching almost to hind coxae. Fro- 

 notum black, sometimes with a median stripe widened in front 

 and behind, and hind border, dark red. Mesonotum black, lateral 

 and hind borders, and sometimes two parallel stripes, dark red. 

 Tegmina vitreous, costa red, venation black. Wings vitreous, 

 venation black, middle vein and near base red or tawny. Abdomen 

 longer than chest, black, apical margins of segments yellov/ or 

 red. Body below yellow or red, with or without three fuscous 

 stripes. Opercula small, widely separated, pale yellow. Legs 

 black and j^ellow, or black and red. Long. corp. 10-12 mm.; exp. 

 teg. 30-32 mm. 



/ra6.— Adelaide, S.A.; New Holland (Walk.). 



*Pauropsalta basalis, sp.nov. 



Head yellow, vertex mostly black; front lightly convex, sides of 

 face and a broad central stripe, black; rostrum black, base yellow, 

 reaching middle coxse. Pronotum a little narrower than head, 

 furrows fuscous. Mesonotum yellow, four broad stripes, the 

 middle pair shorter and confluent, two dots and a spot in front 

 of cruciform elevation, black. Tegmina vitreous, costa white, 

 separated from radial vein; veins black. Wings vitreous, veins 

 black, interior vein of anal area broadly milky. Abdomen orange- 



