BY F. W. GODING AND W. W. FROGGATT. 665 



tubercle below, not spined. Bodi/helow: apex of abdomen, sides 

 of mesonotuni and head, clothed with long hairs. 

 Type, T. tomenlosa, White. 



Synopsis of Species. 



1 (2). Pronotum with lateral borders, near middle, produced in 



a sharp tooth on each side; spotted with fuscous tomcntosa^ 



2(1). Pronotum with lateral borders destitute of teeth; without 



spots crinita. 



*Tettigarcta tomentosa. White. (Plate xviii., figs. 2, 2a). 



1845. App. Eyre's Trav. Aust. i. p. 413, pi. 4, fig. 4. 



1846. White, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. p. 330. 



1847. White, Ann Mag. Nat. Hist. p. 223. 

 1851. Walk., List Horn. Brit. Mus. pi. 2, fig. 2. 



1903. Frogg., Agr. Gaz. N.S. W. p. 420; and Misc. Pub. No. 643, 

 p. 10. 

 Of various shades of brown, variegated with fuscous; very 

 hairy. Head small, with vertex black, bordered on each side 

 with tawny hairs, almost wholly occupied with red ocelli; front 

 tawny, base and a central stripe fuscous; front borders, on each 

 side very short, enclosing base of antennae; rostrum ferruginous, 

 excepting base, reaching apices of hind coxae. Pronotum very 

 long and broad, front border sinuous ; lateral borders rather 

 short, diverging almost directly outward, lightly sinuate; hind 

 border very long, broadly convex, joining lateral borders where 

 they form a strong pointed tooth; posteriorly it nearly covers 

 mesonotum; variously striped and banded with fuscous. Meso- 

 notum small, very hairy, produced posteriorly in the middle in a 

 triangular protuberance, on which is the "cruciform elevation" 

 in the form of a narrow ridge which anteriorly broadens in an 

 elevation, black on basal half, apex yellow. 2'eymina semi- 

 opaque, brown, variously streaked and spotted with ferruginous 

 and fuscous; a broken stripe passes along bases of apical areas, 

 and spot on tip of longitudinal veins, black. Wings pellucid, 

 tinged with brown. Abdomen dark ferruginous, apical margins 

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