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hind border; front convex, rather prominent, with two black 

 stripes; rostrum tawny, tip black, reaching middle coxee. Pro- 

 notum not narrower in front, posterior angles prominent; pale 

 tawn}^ tinged with green, or pale red. Mesonotum pale tawny, 

 with or without pale ferruginous discal stripes, a black spot on 

 each side of apex. Teymina vitreous, costa and veins ferruginous 

 or tawny. Legs yellow, femora streaked with black. Long. 

 Corp. 16 mm.; exp. teg. 35 mm. 

 Bab.—^ew Holland (Walker). 



■^Melampsalta binotata, sp.nov. 



Head black, a spot at middle of vertex, three spots on front 

 border, yellow; front black, lateral borders yellowish; rostrum 

 fuscous, reaching middle hips. Pronotum black, a little narrower 

 than head; front angles prominent; middle stripe, front and 

 lateral borders, and posterior edge, yellow. Mesonotum black, 

 two large spots on disc, lateral borders, and cruciform elevation, 

 yellow. Tegmina vitreous, costa pale red narrowly margined 

 with dark red, veins of basal half pale red, those of apical portion 

 dark red; first two anastomoses and most of first apical area 

 infuscated. Wings with venation reddish-yellow, inner border 

 of anal area milky. Abdomen black, covered with short golden 

 hairs. Body below yellow; base, a middle row of large spots, 

 black; ovipositor ferruginous. Long. corp. 16mm.; exp. teg. 

 46 mm. 



Hah. — Ardrossan, Yorke Peninsula, S. A.; one example (Tepper), 

 and several collected by Masters (Coll. G. A: F.) 



Allied to M. angusta. 



■^Melampsalta angusta. Walk. 



1850. Cicada id., List Hom. Brit. Mus. p. 174. 



Cicada rosea, Walk., ibid. p. 220. 

 1858. Cicada bilinea, Walk., ibid. KSuppl. p. 34. 

 1862. Melamj^salta rosea, Stal, O. V. Ak. F. p. 484. 

 1890. Cicada muta, Hudson. Tr. N. Z. Inst. p. 51 (in part). 



