64 On some undescrihed Cicadidfe. 



oblique, not passing base of abdomen nor meeting internally, 

 abdominal margins beneath strongly, laminately raised ; 

 wings with five apical areas. 



Long. excl. tegni., ^ , 16 mm. ; exp. tegra. 44 mm. 



Hab. New South Wales; 540 miles west from Sydney; 

 open scrub country {Walter W. Froggatt, Brit, and Sydney 

 Muss.). 



"A scrub Cicada, awav from the river, living on the roots 

 of scrub trees '' {W.W.'F.). 



Pauropsalta mixta, sp. n. 



Head black, ocelli red, at base between the ocelli a small 

 ochraceous spot ; pronotum brownish-ochraceous, the sub- 

 basal margin and two central longitudinal lines black, 

 extreme basal and anterior margins pale ochraceous; meso- 

 notum black, the basal cruciform elevation and a spot in 

 front of each of its anterior angles ochraceous ; abdomen 

 above black, greyishly pilose, the tympanal cavities and 

 posterior margins of the segments ochraceous; body beneath 

 black, greyishly pilose ; lateral margins and a central ante- 

 rior spot to face, coxal margins, longitudinal streaks to 

 femora, apices of femora, bases and apices to tibiae, lateral 

 areas of sternum, opercula — excluding bases — and lateral 

 marginal areas of abdomen beneath, ochraceous or greyish 

 ochraceous ; tegmina and wings hyaline, venation black or 

 fuscous, tegmina Avith the costal membrane pale ochraceous, 

 the postcostal area fuscous; vertex distinctly sulcate between 

 the ocelli ; pronotum about as long as head, the fissures 

 well pronounced ; abdomen attenuated posteriorly ; face 

 centrally broadly sulcate, the sulcation scarcely extending 

 beyond middle, transverse striations distinct; rostrum reach- 

 ing the intermediate coxae ; opercula in (^ small, not passing 

 base of abdomen, inwardly well separated, posteriorly 

 rounded; lateral marginal areas of abdomen beneath lami- 

 nately reflexed; tegmina only a little more than twice as 

 long as broad ; wings with five apica^ areas. 



Long. excl. tegm., J, 10 millim.; exp. tegm. 24 mm. 



Hah. N. S. Wales; Breewarrina District {IV. IF. Frog- 

 gatt, type Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to P. dubia, Godd. & Fi'ogg. 



'* A scrub Cicada, awav from the river, living ou the roots 

 of scrub trees ^' (JV.W.F.). 



Pauropsalta signat^^ sp. n. 

 ^ . Head black, front with a sp'^'i.^at apex, base, and on 



