666 MONOGEAPH OF THE AUSTRALIAN CICADID.E, 



paler; laterally, anal appendage is yellow. Body below light 

 brown, clothed with long white hairs. Opercula obsolete. Legs 

 yellow, hairy; tibiae and tarsi mostly black. Long. corp. ^ 

 38 mm., lat. 15 mm.; 9 42 mm., lat. 18 mm.; exp. teg. (J 80 mm.; 

 9 96 mm. 



Hab. — Tasmania (White), Launceston, Tas. (Simson). 



This insect is also said to come from Gippsland, but it is 

 probable that it has been confounded with the second species 

 described by Distant, as all the specimens we have obtained came 

 from Tasmania. Nothing is known about its habits, but it 

 probably frequents thick forest countr}'. 



*Tettigarcta crinita, Dist. (Plate xviii., figs. 3, 3a). 



1883. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 188, pi. 25, fig. 5. 

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

 p. 10. 



All reddish-brown, without spots. Tegmina opaque reddish- 

 brown. Wings vitreous, veins reddish-brown. Fronotutn with a 

 circular excavation on each side, anteriorly ; lateral borders 

 entire, not toothed. Opercula obsolete. Long. corp. ^ 33 mm., 

 9 36 mm.; lat. ^ 13 mm., 9 15 mm.; exp. teg. ^ 50mm., 9 

 100 mm. 



Hah. — Australia (Distant) ; Melbourne, Kunell East, Gipps- 

 land, Victoria. 



Addendum. 

 Cicada (1) loavei, Etheridge and Olliff. 



1890. Mem. Geol. Sur. N.S.W., Paleontology, No. 7, p. 6, pi. 1, 

 fig.l. 

 ^^Sp. Char. — Elongate, moderately robust, the three divisions 

 of the body — head, thorax, and abdomen — very distinct; head 

 rather large and broad, with a lateral tuft of setse on each side 

 at the base; no antennae, rostrum, eyes, or ocelli visible; thorax 

 longer than broad, truncate both before and behind, the sides 

 rounded; abdomen nearly one-half longer than the head and 



