124 Journal New York Entomological Society, ["^'"^i- "^xvin. 



In addition to the type and allotype fifty-nine males and twenty 

 females collected by J. A. Crosby at Trumble Mountain, Mohave Co., 

 Arizona, in the spring or early summer of 1919, have been examined. 

 The following have also been seen: — Stockton, Utah, May 16, 1916, 

 female (Tom Spalding). Beaver Valley, Utah, male; South Creek, 

 Beaver Co., Utah, male; Washington Co., Utah, June, 1917, male (G. 

 P. Engelhardt), collection Museum Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences. 



Bondad, Colorado, June 27, 1919, about 6,100 ft., fifteen males, 

 twenty-two females, collection Am. Museum of Natural History. 

 When these specimens were collected by Dr. F. E. Lutz, he noted that 

 they " sang zip, zip, zip, zip for a long time." 



In the U. S. National Museum there is a male and female labeled 

 Los Angeles Co., Cal., May (Coquillett). These are blue black in 

 color, particularly the head, pronotum and mesonotum ; the mem- 

 branes at the base of fore wings are bright orange ; the uncus in the 

 male is constricted near the extremity, though not as much so as in 

 the examples from Arizona, Utah and Colorado. The notch in the 

 last ventral segment of the female is as wide as in the female allotype 

 from Arizona. In the California Academy of Sciences there are two 

 immature males from Bear Lake, San Bernardino Mountains, Cali- 

 fornia; May 13, 1919 (J. O. Martin), which have the membranes at 

 the base of the fore wings bright orange. 



Genus Melampsalta Kolenati. 



In Mr. Distant's Synonymic Catalogue of Homoptera, Part I, 

 Cicadidae (1906), the type of the genus Melampsalta is given as 

 musiva Germar, of the old world, and other species of the genus are 

 recorded from continental Europe, Africa and Asia, also from Japan, 

 Australia and New Zealand. One species is listed doubtfully from 

 Surinam and Melampsalta parvula Say, from North America. In 

 his Rhynchotal Notes. XXXV, Annals and Magazine of Natural His- 

 tory, series 7, 1905, Mr. Distant considers Melampsalta a "congested 

 genus."' 



In Melampsalta the median and cubitus veins coalesce near the 

 base of the fore wing, whereas in the other genera of Cicadas in 

 America north of Mexico, these veins reach the basal cell or arculus 

 separately. Normally in calliope (parvnla) there are six apical areas 



