BY F. W. GODING AND W. W. FROGGATT. 639' 



the apical border sordid yellow; basal segment of abdomen pale 

 red, disc black, apical borders of succeeding segments pale red; 

 legs marked with red. Tegmina short, costal margin black, 

 separated from radial vein, the space between and postcostal 

 marginal space red; the costa broadly rounded; veins red, interior 

 ulnar vein and those surrounding basal area black; basal mem- 

 branes red. Wings with venation reddish-black; interior vein 

 of anal area broadly reddish-fuscous. Long. corp. 12 mm.; exp. 

 teg. 30 mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales; three males, in Coll. G. & F. 



*Melampsalta varians, Germ. 

 1834. Cicada id., Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. p. 59. 



Head short, transverse, rounded in front, transversely im- 

 pressed, greyish pale yellow, eyes surrounded with black. Pro- 

 notum subnarrower than head, posterior angles a little pro- 

 minent, grey pale yellow, median stripe black-margined and 

 ordinary rugse surrounded with black. Mesonotum grey pale 

 yellow, four abbreviated stripes, the intermediate shorter, black. 

 Tegmina vitreous, immaculate, base of veins pale, at apex fuscous; 

 costa yellowish, apex fuscous. Wings concolorous. Legs pale, 

 middle tibiae ciliated, remotely spined. Opercula short, rounded. 

 Abdomen grey pale yellow, incisures blackish, last segment with 

 two Iplack stripes above, below pale, median stripe obsolete 

 fuscous. Long. corp. 23 mm.; exp. teg. 68 mm. 



Yar. Black colour of body largely extended, abdomen above 

 with a black median stripe, sometimes almost wholly black. 



Hah. — Australia (Germar). 



■^Melampsalta landsboroughi, Dist. 

 1882. P.Z.S.L. p. 131, pi. 7, fig. 14. 



9. Head black, a central longitudinal line to front and three 

 basal spots ochraceous. Rostrum about reaches posterior coxae; 

 the face is broad, deeply and longitudinally sulcated, and 

 transversely strongly striated; the head, including eyes, is consider- 

 ably narrower than base of pronotum. Pronotum dull ochra- 



