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the cruciform elevation. Tegmina vitreous, costa black, brown 

 beyond middle which is whitish; veins black, tawny at base. 

 Abdomen obconical, much longer than thorax, with a narrow red 

 band; under side and tip red, the latter with two black stripes; 

 oviduct dark red. Legs black, knees and tip of tibiae tawny; 

 fore femora striped with tawny; hind tibise tawny, tips black; 

 hind tarsi tawny. Long. corp. 18 mm.; exp. teg. 50 mm. 



^a6.— Adelaide, S. A. (Walker). 



Closely allied to M. melete, in structure of chest, but narrower. 



Melampsalta melete, Walk. 

 1851. Cicada id., List Horn. Brit. Mus. p. 179. 



Body black, rather narrow. Head nearly width of pronotum, 

 three red spots along hind border, a red band, a red stripe branch- 

 ing from it to middle ocellus, and three red stripes on the front; 

 front convex, not prominent; rostrum piceous, reaching middle 

 coxae. Pronotum a little narrower in front, bordered with red, 

 the intervening spaces marked with red, near hind angles much 

 excavated on each side. Mesonotum red on each side and behind, 

 two slender red stripes which join the cruciform elevation, that 

 also mostly red. Tegmina vitreous, veins black, ferruginous 

 towards base, brown towards tips. Abdomen obconical, a little 

 longer than thorax, a red band much narrower above than below 

 where it has a row of black dots on each side, and a more slight 

 row in the middle; tip red. Opercula black, small, broadly sepa- 

 rated. Legs red, coxse and femora black, tips red, front ones 

 streaked with red, fore tibite and tarsi and middle tarsi black; 

 middle tibiae black, base red, a black spot at base of each hind 

 tibia. Long. corp. 18 mm.; exp. teg. 50 mm. 



9- Abdomen red beneath, a row of black spots on each side; last 

 segment black, a large red spot on each side; oviduct ferruginous. 



Hab.—^ew Holland; Swan River (Walker). 



*Melampsalta abbreviata. Walk. 

 1862. Cicada id., Journ. Ent. p. 303. 



Black, short, stout ; pronotum with a slender yellow hind 

 border. Pronotum with a yellow stripe on each side. Opercula ...,,-.,„..^^ 



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