BY F. W. CODING AND W. W. FROGGATT. G45 



pale red. Tegmina vitreous, costa fuscous-red and angulate at 

 middle; veins dark red, basal membrane reddish. Wings with 

 veins red, anal area fuscous-red. Abdomen black, a narrow band 

 at base of tympana, which are very broad and approaching to 

 each other; apical margins of segments, excepting the first and 

 last, red; the third segment entirely orange-red with a black dot 

 on middle; anal appendage sordid yellow. Body below black; 

 chest mottled with pale red; opercula medium, reniform, separated, 

 apex broadly rounded, apical half sordid pale red; abdomen with 

 apical border of first and all of the following three segments 

 orange-red, a row of oblique black lines on each side near lateral 

 borders; apex of last segment and anal appendage sordid yellow. 

 Legs black, all marked with pale red; hind tibi?e wholly yellow. 

 Long. Corp. 21 mm.; exp. teg. 50 mm. 



Hah. — West Australia; one example, in National Museum, 

 Melbourne. 



The orange-red band across the middle of the abdomen will 

 distinguish this species from all others. 



Mel AMPS ALTA QUADRICINCTA, Walk. 



1851. Cicada id., List Hom. Brit. Mus. p. 191. 



Body black; head nearly breadth of pronotum; a tawny spot 

 on each side of front, and on hind border, convex, not prominent; 

 rostrum black, reaching middle coxae. Pronotum with two tawny 

 spots, one near each side, ferruginous on hind borders. Meso- 

 notum with two oblique ferruginous stripes on each side, hind 

 border lightly excavated. Tegmina vitreous, costa ferruginous 

 for nearly two-thirds its length, then black for a short space; 

 veins ferruginous, black towards tips. Abdomen piceous, obcon- 

 ical, not longer than thorax, hind borders with ferruginous and 

 green bands, a tawny stripe on each side below; opercula rather 

 large, almost white, longer than one-third of abdomen, separated 

 by a narrow space. Legs tawny, black-striped, tarsi and front 

 tibiae black. Long. corp. 14 mm.; exp. teg. 37 ram. 



Hab.—^^\s Holland (Walker). 



