226 Howard AsJdon: 



tudiiial fasciae. Rostrum reachin<i' posterior coxae. Opercula 

 rectangular, meeting internally, a piceous spot on abdominal 

 segment above outer angle. Head (excluding eyes) twice as 

 broad as long, front not prominent, including eyes broader 

 than base of mesonotum. Pronotum as long as mesonotum 

 (excluding cruciform elevation). Abdomen very short, equal in 

 lengtl) to pro- and mesonotum together, first two segments 

 equal in length to all of the rest. 



Long. — (exel. teg.), 12 mm.; exp. teg., 46 mm. 



Hab. — North Queensland, Cape York. (Mr. H. Elgner.) 



Remarkable for the extreme shortness of the abdomen. 



Melampsalta viridis, sp. uov. 



d Body above green, beneath green, inclining to yellow, 

 eyes pale brownish. Tegmina and wings hyaline, talc-like, 

 venation on basal third green, thence becoming fuscous. The 

 only markings are two small black spots, one on each side 

 of the anal appendage. Pronotum and head deeply centrally 

 sulcata, rostrum reaching intermediate coxae, opercula lunate, 

 much narrower than abdominal orifices, curved inwardly. 



Long. — (excl. teg.), 13 mm. ; exp. teg., 31 mm. 



^«6.— Queensland (?) Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Allied to J/, sulcata, Dist., with the same narrow crescent- 

 shaped opercula, but differing in the shorter tegmina, as well 

 as in colour. M. fjoggaffi, Dist., and J/, capi.sfrata, Ashton, 

 have similar curiousl)^ shaped opercula. 



Melampsalta crucifera, sp. nov. 



$ Body above ochraceous. Head with oblique black fasciae 

 to front, joining Avith fasciae on vertex towards eyes, at inner 

 angles of which the fasciae turn inwardly, the whole series 

 forming a square interrupted by the two posterior ocelli, Froui 

 these two ocelli run two slender fasciae forward through the 

 third ocellus, and continuing on to near base of front, forming 

 a cross of which the anterior ocellus is the centre. Pronotum 

 with two broken central longitudinal fasciae and irregular 

 markings to incisures, anterior border of posterior margin 



