656 MONOGRAPH OF THE AUSTRALIAN CICADID.E, 



Genus K a n a k i a, Dist. 

 1892. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) x. p. 62. 



Head convexly produced in front, about equal in length to 

 space between eyes, including outer margins of eyes about equal 

 in width to base of mesonotum; eyes large, obliquely directed 

 backwardly; ocelli about equally distant from eyes as from each 

 other; a distinct broad central sulcation from between ocelli to 

 base. Pronotum more than twice as broad as long, lateral 

 margins prominently and somewhat acutely angulated, lateral 

 posterior angles moderately ampliated. Mesonotum large, cruci- 

 form elevation well developed, tympana totally exposed and 

 uncovered. Tegmina hyaline, eight apical areas; interior ulnar 

 area with anterior margin convex, base and apex subequally 

 broad; ulnar veins distant; basal area twice as long as broad. 

 Wings hyaline, with six apical areas. Abdomen in male moder- 

 ately inflated, beneath grooved before lateral margins; opercula 

 small; anterior femora armed with four spines, basal and median 

 longest and very prominent, other two small, near apex, apical 

 one minute. Face long, somewhat depressed. 



Type, K. typica, Distant. 



*Kanakia congrua, sp.nov. (Plate xviii., figs. 6, 6«, 66). 



Head, pronotum, and mesonotum pale green; eyes surrounded 

 with yellow; borders of pronotum with a central stripe pale 

 yellow; mesonotum indistinctly striped with yellow. Tegmina 

 with venation red, darker towards apex. Wings with venation 

 red. Abdomen moderately inflated in the male; in the female it 

 is obconical, in both sexes longer than the combined length of 

 head and thorax, the sexual organs at the end, not below; yellow, 

 a median stripe and mottled with green; in some lights the apical 

 borders of the segments yellow. Body below : chest is green 

 clouded with pale red; opercula triangular, distant, reaching 

 almost to posterior border of metasternum, pale reddish, mixed 

 with green; abdomen red, apical borders of segments bright red. 

 Long. Corp. 20 mm.; exp. teg. 52 mm. 



