652 MONOGEAPH OF THE AUSTEALIAN CICADlDyS, 



segmental fasciae. Body beneath and legs pale ochraceous. Body 

 above sparingly pilose, apex black. Long. corp. 15 mm.; exp. 

 teg. 41 mm. 



/lab. — Peak Downs, Queensland (Distant). 



*Melampsalta mackinlayi, Dist. 



1882. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 130, pi. 7, fig. 13. 



Head mostly black above; face yellow, front mostly black. Pro- 

 notum yellow, two central stripes and furrows black, hind border 

 infuscated; width of head. Mesonotum yellow, with four obconi- 

 cal stripes, middle pair much shorter; black; with two black dots 

 behind; width equal to that of head. Tegmina vitreous, costa 

 pale yellow exteriorly, edged with black ; venation with that of 

 wings, pale yellow. Abdomen black, apical borders of segments 

 yellow, interrupted in middle. Below, yellow, a black central 

 stripe on abdomen. Long. 15 mm.; exp. teg. 38 mm. 



Hab. — Peak Downs (Distant) ; Townsville, Queensland. 



Closely allied to M. varians, Germ., but smaller ; head 

 broader, including eyes equal in width to base of pronotum ; 

 rostrum just passing intermediate coxae; opercula small and pale 

 ochraceous; tegmina much shorter, with the costa more rounded. 



^'Melampsalta graminis. sp.nov. 



Head yellow, with a broad black stripe between eyes; front 

 convex, prominent, with a broad fuscous stripe; rostrum reach- 

 ins: middle coxae. Pronotuni narrower in front than head, sides 

 parallel, hind angles a little prominent; yellow, obsoletely marked 

 with fuscous. Mesonotum yellow, with four irregular obconical 

 stripes, middle pair shorter and followed by two dots and a spot 

 in front of cruciform elevation; scutellum yellow. Tegmina 

 short, broad, veins j^ellow, as are those of wings. Abdomen 

 yellow, irregularly clouded with fuscous, a row of lateral spots 

 and base of anal appendage the same colour. Body below yellow; 

 opercula short, broad, pale yellow, a little distant, apices broadly 

 rounded. Legs yellow, lightly marked with fuscous; abdomen 



