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stripes and two black dots. Long. corp. 24 mm. ; exp. teg. 

 70 mm. 



Hah. — Swan River, W.A. (Walker); Ardrossan, Yorke Penin- 

 sula (Tepper), Gawler, S.A. (Macleay Mus.). 



*Melampsalta convergens, Walk. 

 1851. Cicada id., List Horn. Brit. Mus. p. 114. 



Head a little narrower than pronotum; vertex with three red 

 dots; front convex, red, with two black stripes having black 

 bands on each side; rostrum tawny, tip black, reaching middle 

 coxae. Pronotum with a tawn}' stripe at middle, and on each 

 side three broad red stripes, the middle one interrupted; hind 

 border tawny, tinged with black, almost angular at base of teg- 

 mina, excavated on each side. Mesonotum pale red, three very 

 broad, obconical, black stripes, middle one shortest and broader, 

 united at tip to a black spot near cruciform elevation. Tegmina 

 lightl}'' tinged with tawny, costa pale red, piceous towards tips; 

 veins black, first and second anastomoses and longitudinal vein 

 between them, clouded with dark brown. Abdomen obconical, 

 a little longer than pronotum, a black stripe and a little black 

 near base below; oviduct pitchy. Legs tawny, marked with 

 black. Long. corp. 20 mm.; exp. teg. 65 mm. 



Hah. — New Holland (Walker); Queensland. 



■^Melampsalta labeculata, Dist. 

 1892. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) x., p. 66. 



(J. Head and thorax above ochraceous; head with margins of 

 front, a lineate spot near anterior angles of vertex, and a broad 

 fascia between eyes, enclosing ocelli, black. Pronotum. with two 

 central fasciee rounded and joined posteriorly, a spot on each side, 

 and furrows, black; a black spot on posterior margin at lateral 

 angles. Mesonotum with four large obconical spots, the central 

 pair shortest, a central lanceolate fascia, anterior margin of 

 cruciform elevation, a spot on its anterior angles, a small spot in 

 front, and posterior lateral margins, black. Tegmina with 

 venation fuscous, costal membrane ochraceous, and with a 

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