654 MONOGEAPH OF THE AUSTRALIAN CICADIDJE, 



ochraceous. Abdomen ochraceous. Body beneath and legs 

 ochraceous. 



The body is sparingl}^ pilose above; rostrum just passes the 

 middle cox?e; the face is deepl}^ sulcated longitudinally, and 

 strongly transversely striate. Long. 15 mm.; exp. teg. 38 mm. 



Hah. — Peak Downs, Queensland (Distant). 



Melampsalta convicta, Dist. 

 1892. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) ix. p. 322. 



Body above brownish-ochraceous. Head with frontal margins 

 and area of ocelli black. Pronotum with three small obscure 

 black spots near anterior margin, incisures somewhat darker. 

 Meso7iotuni with four obconical black spots, the outermost two 

 long, two rounded spots in front of anterior angles of cruciform 

 elevation, black. Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, venation 

 ochraceous; tegmina with postcostal space infuscated. Abdomen 

 with transverse fascise at anterior segmental margins and a series 

 of lateral marginal spots, black. Body beneath brownish-ochra- 

 ceous; the disc of lateral striations to face, apex of rostrum, 

 and a basal spot to abdomen black; femora pale castaneous. 

 Long. Corp. 19 mm.; exp. teg. 56 mm. 



Hab.—^ovio\k Island (Distant). 



*Melampsalta eyrei, Dist. 

 1882. P.Z.S.L. p. 130, pi. 7, fig. 12. 



(J. Head black, anterior and lateral margins testaceous, a 

 small central basal ochraceous spot; rostrum just passing middle 

 coxae; face broad but compressed, broadly and longitudinally 

 sulcated and distinctly transversel}^ striate. Pronotum ochrace- 

 ous, with two large rectangular oblique black spots, commencing 

 on inner edge of lateral margins, and divided on disc by a central 

 longitudinal fascia, widened anteriorly and posteriorly, and 

 marked at base by a small spot. Mesonotum with two central 

 obconical spots, and two larger ones near lateral margins, black. 

 Tegmina and wings pale hyaline; venation ochraceous, becoming 

 darker towards apex. Abdomen with the disc tinged with reddish, 



