■634 MONOGRAPH OP THE AUSTRALIAN CICADID.E, 



large spot blackish on transverse veins at bases of second and 

 third apical areas; wings with venation ochraceous and fuscous. 

 Abdomen black, moderately pilose, posterior segmental margins 

 narrowly ochraceous; a spot on each side of last dorsal segment, 

 two large lateral spots (basal and apical), and two central lines 

 to anal appendage, ochraceous. Bodi/ beneath and legs ochra- 

 ceous; a broad central fascia to face on each side of sulcation, 

 base and apex of rostrum, sternal spots, longitudinal streaks to 

 femora, anterior tibiae (excluding bases), bases and apices of middle 

 tibae, apices of tarsi, a broad central fascia to abdomen, and 

 anal appendage, black. Long. corp. 9 20; exp. teg. 62 mm. 

 Ilab. — Australia (Distant). 



*Melampsalta interstans, Walk. 

 1858. Cicada id., List Hom. Brit. Mus. Suppl. p. 32. 



Q. Tawny, testaceous beneath. Disc of vertex black, face 

 with four broad black stripes. Profiotum with two black stripes, 

 which are widened in front to enclose a testaceous stripe, three 

 irregular black streaks on each side; hind border narrow, testa- 

 ceous, hardly widened on each side. Mesonotum with four 

 obconical black stripes, two black spots behind inner pair, which 

 are short. Tegmina vitreous, veins tawny, black towards tip. 

 Abdomen reddish-tawny, a black band on fore border of each 

 segment, last segment with black dilated and connected stripes. 

 Legs with black stripes. Long. corp. 14 mm.; exp. tegm. 40 mm. 



Z^a6.— Adelaide, S.A. (Walker). 



^Melampsalta abdominalis, Dist. 

 1892. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) ix., p. 323. 



Body above black. Head with a central spot to front, apical 

 margins of vertex, a central spot near base, ochraceous. Prono- 

 tum with a central discal elongated spot, beneath which are two 

 small transverse spots, ochraceous. A spot on each side of cruci- 

 form elevation and metanotal margin ochraceous. Tegmina and 

 wings pale hyaline, venation blackish; costal membrane and post- 

 costal area of tegmina ochraceous. Abdomen with two oblique 



