326 On some undescribed Cicadide. 
In the ‘Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,’ 
vol. xxiii. p. 49 (1890), Mr. G. V. Hudson has published a 
paper on “ New Zealand Cicada” *. 
Cicada muta, Huds. Ul. c. p. 51.—Mr. Hudson thus refers 
to the well-known Melampsalta muta, Fabr., and describes 
several varieties which apparently belong to two distinct 
species—I/, muta, Fabr., and M. angusta, Walk. These 
varieties have also previously been described by Walker as 
distinct species, while Mr. Hudson again describes under the 
name of Cicada aprilina (l.c. p. 53) another form of the 
Fabrician species. The synonymy is as follows :— 
Melampsalta muta. 
Tettigonia muta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 4, p. 25. n. 85 (1775); Syst. Rhyng. 
p. 45. n. 53 (1803). 
Cicada muta, Oliv. Enc. Méth. v. p. 757. n. 48 (1790). 
Cicada cutora, Walk. List Hom. i. p. 172. n. 116 (1850). 
Cicada ochrina, Walk. List Hom., Suppl. p. 34 (1853). 
Melampsalta muta, Stal, Gifv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1862, p. 484. 
Cicada muta, Huds. (vart.), Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. xxiii. p. 61 (1890), 
Cicada aprilina, Huds. eid, p. 53 (1890). 
Melampsalta angusta. 
Cicada angusta, Walk. List Hom. i. p. 174. n. 121 (1850) ; Stal, CEfv. 
Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1862, p. 482. 
Cicada rosea, Walk. List Hom. i. p. 220. n. 173 (1850). 
Cicada bilinea, Walk. List Hom., Suppl. p. 54 (1858). 
Melampsalta rosea, Stal, Sfv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1862, p. 484. 
Cicada muta, Huds. (part.), Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. xxii, p. 51 (1890). 
Cicada tristis, Huds. 1. ce. p. 52,= Melampsalta scutellaris, 
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Walk. List Hom. i. p. 150. n. 88 
Cicada iolanthe, Huds. l. c. p.53, belongs to the genus 
Melampsalta. In a book entitled ‘An Klementary Manual of 
New Zealand Entomology,’ bearing date 1892, Mr, Hudson 
gives a figure of a Cicada tolanthe, sp. n., without any 
description or reference to his previous description in the 
* This family name should be more correctly spelt “ Cicadidee,” espe- 
cially as Mr. Buckton has even niore erroneously used the term “ Cicadee ” 
for nearly the whole of the British Homoptera (‘Monog. of the British 
Cicadie,” by G. Bowdler Buckton, 1890-91). “ Philosophical entomolo- 
gists” who contemn “systematic entomologists’’ must at least be pro- 
tected by their weaker brethren from forming wrong conclusions on 
careless systematic work, 
