52 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



the extreme costal margin, the postcostal membrane, the 

 upper margin of basal cell, and basal area of inner margin to 

 clavus black ; wings with the venation darker on apical area; 

 body above and beneath more or less greyishly pilose; oper- 

 cula transverse, well separated internally, posterior margins 

 broadly rounded ; face longer than broad, distinctly centrally 

 longitudinally sulcate, strongly transversely carinate, the 

 lateral areas depressed. 



Long., excl. tegm,, <$ , 18 mm. ; exp. tegm. 50 mm. 



Hab. South Queensland; Stradbroke Island (II. Hacker). 

 Type Brit. Mus. 



Allied to M. labyrinthiea, Walk. 



Melampsalta toowoombai, sp. n. 



$ . Head, pronotum, and mesonotum black, head with the 

 ocelli red, the front brownish ochraceous, a spot at base 

 between the ocelli, and a smaller spot on the lateral margins 

 ochraceous ; face black, the lateral margins and a central spot 

 at base ochraceous; rostrum ochraceous, its apex broadly black; 

 pronotum with a central, discal, longitudinal, ochraceous 

 fascia, the fissures, and anterior and posterior margins dull 

 castaneous ; mesonotum with the basal cruciform elevation 

 ochraceous, centrally black ; abdomen above ochraceous, a 

 broad central longitudinal fascia, margins of the abdominal 

 segments, and the apical area black, the last with a long 

 angulate ochraceous spot ; head beneath and sternum black, 

 abdomen beneath and legs ochraceous; coxas, trochanters, 

 and femora black or blackish, base and apical area of abdo- 

 men beneath black; tegmina and wings hyaline, venation 

 black, costal and postcostal membrane and a basal streak 

 before clavus ochraceous ; wings with the base narrowly 

 ochraceous ; head foveately impressed between and behind 

 the ocelli; face deeply centrally sulcate; the transverse 

 sulcations profound ; wings with six apical areas. 



Long., excl. tegm., ? , 13 mm.; exp. tegm. 42 mm. 



Hab. South Queensland ; Toowoomba (Harnlyn- Harris). 

 Type Brit. Mus. 



A species to be placed near M. murrayensis, Dist. 



Synonymical Notes. 

 In the Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria (n. s.), 1914, pp. 15-18, 

 pi. iii., Mr. Howard Ashton has desciibed " Three new 

 African Cicadas," all of which are unfortunately old and 

 long-before described species. It is a very speculative pro- 

 ceeding to describe in Australia new species from the Ethio- 

 pian Region, especially without the opportunity for comparison 

 with properly identified specimens from that area. 



