636 MONOGRAPH OF THE AUSTRALIAN CICADID^j, 



abdomen purple, a row of spots on each side, last segment and 

 anal appendage bright yellow; sides of sheath of ovipositor 

 purple. Legs black and pale yellow variegated. Long. corp. 

 42 mm.; lat. 9 mm.; exp. teg. 74 mm. 



Hah. — Australia; one female, in the South Australian Museum. 



This is one of the largest members of the genus. 



[Since writing the above we have examined a male, in the 

 Macleay Museum, which agrees with the description of the 

 female, including the slender spine just before the apex, but is 

 only 23 mm. long.]. 



*Melampsalta kershawi, sp.nov. 



Head reddish-fuscous, base of front pale red, also spot on base 

 of vertex and posterior border; front very convex, produced, 

 fuscous-red, borders pale red, sides of face reddish-fuscous; ros- 

 trum with basal half dark red, apical portion tawn}^, reaching 

 middle cox?e. Pronotum width of head, widened posteriorly, 

 front and hind angles prominent; dark red, a central stripe, 

 front and hind borders, and three irregular spots on sides, pale 

 red. Mesonotum red, with four obconical stripes, the outer pair 

 longer, lateral borders, a stripe on disc, and a large spot in front 

 of cruciform elevation, black. Tegmina vitreous, costa and veins 

 pale red, basal membranes bright red. Wings with veins yellow, 

 basal membranes red, posterior border of anal area broadly milky. 

 Abdomen robust, black; anal appendage pale red, a spot on each 

 side of base, and two stripes on disc which unite at apex, black. 

 Body below : chest pale red variegated with yellow and black; 

 abdomen black, a row of small spots on each side and last segment 

 bright red, anal appendage fuscous-red. Legs red, streaked with 

 darker red. Long. corp. 27 mm.; lat. 8 mm.; exp. teg. 76 mm, 



Hab. — Marysville, Vic. (Kershaw); one female, in the National 

 Museum, Melbourne. 



This is the largest species of the genus we have seen. 



*Melampsalta denisoni, Dist. (Plate xviii., figs. 7-7«). 

 1893. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. p. 78. 



Head black, a small pale spot at base of vertex ; front trian- 

 gularly produced, very hairy, a row of reddish spots on lateral 



