NOTES on AUSTRALIAN CICADID^. 



By Howard Ashton. 



(Plate vii). 



Division THOPHARIA. 



Sub-family Cicadinje. 



Genus Arunt,a, Distant. 



Arunta flava, sp. nov. 



(Plate vii., figs. 1 and 2). 



Head. — Bright yellow, frontal fascia between eyes, four 

 contiguous spots over front, region of ocelli and hind margins of 

 vertex black. Front depressed and invisible from above. 



Pronotum. — Bright yellow, two central fascia? joining at hind 

 and fore borders, and incisures black. 



Mesonotum. — Yellow, two inner short ob conical spots, two 

 outer longer fascia? black margined with light castaneous, two 

 spots before cruciform elevation joining a stout central 

 longitudinal spear-shaped stripe, not reaching anterior margin, 

 black. 



Tegmina. — Transparent, hyaline, immaculate, venation bright 

 ochraceous merging on apices into warm brown. Winys similar, 

 slightly milky on anal area. 



Abdomen £. — Black, margined with light castaneous, tympanal 

 coverings characteristically sac-like and covered with white 

 tomentum. Anal segment also covered similarly. Abdomen 

 below ^ black, bordered with brown, anal plate yellow ; (j> 

 yellow with central thin, transverse, black fascia?. £ abdomen 

 above light castaneous with central transverse black fascia? on 

 first six segments. 



Afeasurements. — Length of body, £ .'50 mm.; £ 29 mm.; 

 expanse of tegmina, 90 nun. 



Obs. — Differs from A. interclusa, Walk., in its lighter colour, 

 smaller size, less produced front to head, powdered white penul- 

 timate segment and unspotted tegmina. 



Ihdi. — Rat Island, Port Curtis, Queensland, and Tweed River, 



New South Wales. 



