Rhynchota from New Caledonia. 459 



Melampsalta quadricincta. 



Melampsalta quadricincta, Walk. (Cicada) List Horn. i. p. 191 (1850). 



Hah. Plaine des Lacs, Kuakue. 



Also recorded from Australia and New Zealand. 



Melampsalta latorea. 



Melampsalta latorea, Walk. {Cicada) List Horn. i. p. 183 (1850). 



Hub. Plaine des Lacs. 



Widely distributed iu Australia. 



Melampsalta depicta, sp. n. 



Head black, a marginal spot above the insertion of the 

 antennas and a basal spot between the ocelli ochraceous; pro- 

 notum and niesonotuui ochraceous, the first with two lar»e 



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contiguous spois on each lateral area and a small angulated 

 spot between them near base, mesonotum with two fused spots 

 on anterior margin continued as a subcruciform spot towards 

 bast-, and a longer sub lateral spot on each side black ; abdo- 

 men black, the segmental margins ochraceous ; body beneath 

 black ; lateral margins of face, lateral areas of sternum, the 

 opercula, and broad lateral margins to abdomen beneath 

 luteous or ochraceous ; legs luteous, anterior femora beneath 

 black and armed with three strong spines; opercula not quite 

 meeting inwardly and not reaching the base of abdomen, 

 their apices rounded; rostrum just passing the intermediate 

 coxa? ; tegmina and wings hyaline, costal membrane to the 

 first ochraceous, the posteostnl area black. 



Long., excl. tegm., 17 ; exp. tegm. 55 mm. 



llab. Plaine des Lacs, Mt. Koghi, Mt. Mou. 



Melampsalta dumbeatia, sp. n. 



? . Head black, with a green basal spot behind the ocelli; 

 pronotum green, with two small transverse spots at middle of 

 anterior margin, and the whole of the lateral areas enclosing 

 two green spots at base black ; mesonotum green, with a 

 broad elongate spot on each lateral area, and a large central 

 spot — broadest anteriorly and attenuated to base, where it is 

 dilated on each side — black ; all these black spots more or 

 less margined with ochraceous; abdomen above black, the 

 posterior segmental margins green; body beneath black, the 

 lateral margins ochraceous ; legs more or less castaneous, 



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