638 MONOGEAPH OF THE AUSTEALIAN ClCADlDjE, 



fuscous. Legs castaneous, posterior tibiae and tarsi yellow. 

 Long. Corp. 20 mm.; exp. teg. 48 mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales; one male, in the National Museum, 

 Melbourne, and one female, in the South Australian Museum. 



*Melampsalta rubristrigata, sp.nov. 



Head black, a spot at base of vertex and two spots on front 

 border red; front convex, black, lateral borders red; rostrum 

 black, base red, reaching middle coxse. Pronotiim width of 

 head, not narrower in front, front angles prominent, tooth-like, 

 red; front border at sides, a central stripe, red; hind border 

 rather broad, with a transverse band and a spot on the prominent 

 posterior angles black. Mesonotum red, with three broad stripes, 

 the outer pair irregular towards apices and reaching sides of cruci- 

 form elevation, the median stripe extending from base to front 

 of cruciform elevation, its exterior margins notched at middle. 

 Tegmina vitreous, broad; costa, veins, basal membranes, red; 

 posterior border of clavus black. Wings with veins and basal 

 membranes red; anal area milky near base, apex infuscated. 

 Abdomen strong, black, apical borders of segments and anal 

 appendage red. Body below: chest black streaked with red; 

 opercula medium, reniform, transverse, distant, apical half red; 

 abdomen black, basal segment and all other segments on apical 

 margins broader laterally, and anal appendage, red. Legs red, 

 streaked with black. Long. corp. 23-25mm.; exp. teg. 60-64mm. 



Hah. — Mt. Lofty, S.A.; two males and one female, in the South 

 Australian Museum, Adelaide (collected by Zietz). 



The female is similar to the male in the arrangement of the 

 markings; the abdomen is much prolonged, conical, the ovipositor 

 extending far beyond the apex of the abdomen, its tip black. 



*Melampsalta atrata, sp.nov. 



Wholly black, with the following exceptions : an obsolete 

 narrow middle stripe on pronotum, lateral and posterior borders 

 of mesonotum and front side of tympana red ; below black, 

 chest red-lined; opercula broad, short, broadly rounded, black, 



