626 MONOGEAPH OF THE AUSTRALIAN CICABIDJE, 



red, base of first segment black, apical margins of segments 

 yellow. Body below yellow, opercula small, white; apical half of 

 abdomen bright orange-red. Legs yellow, front coxse and a stripe 

 on front femora fuscous. Long. corp. 18 ram.; exp. teg. 35 mm. 



Hab. — Townsville, Q.; one example collected by Dodd (Coll. 

 G. & F.). 



*Pauropsalta puer. Walk. 



1850. Cicada id., List Hom. Brit. Mus. p. 200. 



$. Body tawny. Head a little broader than pronotum; disc 

 black, a black mark on each side beneath; front convex, with 

 black striations; rostrum tawny, tip black, reaching middle coxse, 

 black spot above near base; antennas tawny, black toward tips. 

 Pronotum not narrower in front, sutures black, hind part narrow, 

 slightly widened and rounded on each side. Disc of mesonotum 

 black, four tawny stripes communicating with hind border. 

 Tegmina vitreous, tinged with brown along the veins near tip of 

 costa, tawny at base and costa; veins piceous, tawny at base. 

 Abdomen swollen, much longer than chest, black above at the 

 base whence a row of black spots proceeds nearly to the tip. 

 Opercula pale tawny. Legs pale brown, clothed with yellow hairs, 

 coxse and knees yellow; yellow ring near base of each tibiae; femora 

 striped with piceous and yellow. Long. corp. 10 mm,; exp. tegm. 

 27 mm. 



Zfa6.— Adelaide, S.A. (Walker). 



■^Pauropsalta EMMA, sp.nov. (Plate xviii., fig. 11). 



Head black, a little broader than front of pronotum; front 

 convex, not prominent, ochraceous, sides of face black, hairy; 

 rostrum reaching apex of middle coxse. Pronotum black, with 

 three ochraceous spots on each side; lateral borders parallel, hind 

 angles a little prominent. Mesonotum black, with two small 

 spots on posterior part of disc and cruciform elevation ochraceous. 

 Tegmina short, broad, postcostal area very broad throughout; 

 veins on basal portion yellow, those of apical portion, hind border 

 of clavus, front and apical borders of basal area, fuscous. Veins 



