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58. M. Telxiope (= Cicada Telxiope, Wlk., C. duplex, "Wlk., G. arche, 



AVlk.). 

 Found also in Australia. 



59. M. cincta (= Cicada cincta, Wlk.). 



Four specimens from Mr. Wakefield may belong to tliis. 



60. M. ? nervosa (= Cicada nervosa, "Wlk.). 



I do not know whether this is a Melampsalta, but the probability 

 is that it, like all the species of the family I have seen, belongs to that 

 genus. 



61. M. angusta (= Cicada angusta, "Wlk., C. rosea, Wlk., O. hilinea, 



Wlk.). 



62. 31. cruentata (= Tettigonia criientata, F.). 



63. M. JSLangti, n. sp. 



Black, with long black and grey [hairs, and finer pale pubescence. Markings 

 red, but many of them often obsolete ; when present, they are — the sides of the frons, 

 the sides of the vertex above the antennae, and a spot at the base of the vertex, a 

 broken line on all the margins of the pronotum and a short central line on its disc, 

 a short line on each side of the disc of the scutellum and a cross-shaped mark at the 

 apex of the same part, the hind margins of the abdominal segments above very nar- 

 rowly, and some more distinct spots on the sides of the last ( (?) or last two (?) 

 segments. These markings are often more or less absent or are (in some specimens) 

 yellow instead of red (faded colour ?). Under-side pale, with a rosy tinge. Legs 

 pale rosy, coxae with large black spots ; trochanters and femora with black streaks ; 

 tibiae with black streaks and rings ; tarsi piceous towards the apex ; front femora with 

 three black spines below. Tegmina and wings vitreous ; costa and veins testaceous, 

 more or less tinged with red, black beyond the middle. 



$ . Opercula small, whitish, transverse, broadly rounded at the apex. 



$ ? . Length, 17—20 ; exp. tegm. 32—40 mm. 



Four sjDecimens from Mr. Wakefield, labelled " On rocks at 

 Porter's Pass, Canterbury, about 3500 feet." 



I have another species much i-esembling M. Mangu, but larger 

 and almost altogether black. 



Fam. CEECOPINA. 

 Suh-Fam. APRROPHOBID^. 



64. Aphrophora jactator, n. sp. 



Ovate-oblong, fuscous-brown, with a faint greyish-green tinge, shining, almost 

 glabrous, coarsely and thickly punctate ; tegmina rather obscurely variegated with 

 darker brown, and with two pale blotches on the front margin, the first of which is 

 somewhat oblong, and the second, and larger, triangular ; between the pale blotches 

 is an irregular brown triangle, whose apex separates them. Legs with obscure 

 fuscous markings. Vertex rounded in front, breadth nearly double the length ; 



