648 MONOGEAPH OF THE AUSTEALIAN CICADID^^, 



hairs. Scutellum black, the posterior edge pale red on each side 

 of middle. Tegmina vitreous, broad, rather short, the two ulnar 

 veins joined at base; costa pale red, front edge of apical half 

 fuscous; basal membranes red; veins pale red, terminal portion 

 of longitudinal veins, posterior border of clavus, and lateral 

 borders of basal area, fuscous, the two exterior anastomoses and 

 borders of first apical area infuscated. Wings with veins pale 

 red, the marginal veins fuscous; basal membranes red. Abdomen 

 black, hind borders of segments bright orange-red which is 

 almost obsolete narrowly along the middle, the red on the basal 

 segment limited to a narrow short stripe on each side, last seg- 

 ment broadly red; anal appendage black above, the sides pale 

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

 small, distant, oval, sordid tawny with base fuscous, hairy 

 around edges; abdomen pale red, a transverse fuscous band on 

 basal segment which is obsolete on the others, and a row of 

 lateral black spots on each side. Legs black, streaked with red. 

 Long. Corp. 18mm.; exp. teg. 52 mm. 



Hah. — Tasmania ; one male in the National Museum, Mel- 

 bourne, identified by Walker as C. hasijlamma. 



*Melampsalta fulva, sp.nov. 



Entirely fulvous, with the following exceptions : two dots on 

 each side of vertex, a central stripe and lateral and posterior 

 borders of pronotum, sordid yellow; costa greenish-yellow at base, 

 thereafter reddish, veins and basal membranes pale red; veins of 

 wings pale red. Long. corp. 22 mm.; exp. teg. 70 mm. 



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



Melbourne. 



Melampsalta a^de, Walk. 



1851. Cicada id., List Hom. Brit. Mus. p. 181. 



9. Body black; head a little narrower than pronotum; front 

 very convex, a dark red spot on each side, an interrupted tawny 

 stripe on vertex corresponding to a short tawny stripe on pro- 

 notum; rostrum and antennae black. Hind part of pronotum 

 w^rinkled. Mesonotum with a large tawny spot on each side of 



