642 MONOGRAPH OF THE AUSTRALIAN CICADIDJi, 



tip of abdomen, and ovipositor, fuscous. Long. corp. 20 mm.; 

 exp. teg. 42 mm. 



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

 Adelaide. 



We have seen but one mutilated specimen. 



^'*Melampsalta oldfieldi, Dist. 

 1883. Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 191. 



(J. Head, pronotum, and mesonotum greenish ochraceous, a 

 central longitudinal castaneous fascia extends from base of head 

 to apex of abdomen. Head yvith. four large black spots on vertex, 

 two at area of ocelli, and two in front of eyes. Rostrum just 

 passes middle coxa?, apex castaneous ; face laterally compressed, 

 concave on each side, central sulcation deep. Mesonotum with 

 pale ochraceous margins to the central castaneous fascia; central 

 base of abdominal margins blackish. Body beneath pale greenish 

 ochraceous ; face castaneous, disc black. Tegmina and wings 

 pale hyaline; tegmina with costal membrane and basal venation 

 greenish, remaining venation pale fuscous; claval area and that 

 between postcostal vein and postcostal ulnar ramus ochra- 

 ceous. Wings with base and claval area ochraceous, veins green- 

 ish, becoming fuscous towards outer margin. Anal sheaths 

 enclosing ovipositor fuscous, and projecting beyond apex of 

 abdomen; ovipositor dark castaneous; last abdominal segment 

 triangularly excavated. Long. corp. 21 mm.; exp. teg. 55 mm. 



Hah. — New Holland (Distant) ; Gympie ; Taylor's Range, 

 Brisbane, Q. 



The broad central castaneous fascia on the upper side of the 

 body of this species renders it very distinct from all other 

 Australian species. 



*Melampsalta telxiope. Walk. 



1850. Cicada id.. List Hom. Brit. Mus. p. 194. 

 Cicada duplev, Walk., id. p. 194. 

 Cicada arche, Walk., id. p. 195. 

 Head width of pronotum, pale red or tawny; vertex with a 

 black band crossing ocelli with a branch on each side towards 



