270 Uv. W. L. Distant on Ilomoptcra. 



up a congested genus, my efforts failed, and the differences 

 became evanescent when a long series of species were 

 examined. 



Melamjysalta Godingi. 



Melampsalta vtnhrimargo, God. & Frogg. Proc. Liau. Soc. N. S. 

 Wales, 1004, p. 632, t. xviii. fig. 12. 



Head black; a central line to front, a spot on each lateral 

 margin, an elongate central basal spot, a small spot near inner 

 margin of each eye, and the posterior margin of vertex 

 ochraceous ; pronotura ochraceous ; two central fascise united 

 posteriorly and ampliated anteriorly, some irreguhir discal 

 markings, inner posterior margin, and lateral and sublateral 

 margins black ; mesonotum black ; the margins of two 

 central obconical spots, the lateral margins, and cruciform 

 elevation ochraceous, tl)e last with a bhick spot on each 

 anterior angular prolongation ; abdomen black, posterior 

 segmental margins ochraceous; sternum very thickly grey- 

 ishly pilose; face black, its lateral margins ochraceous; 

 opercula in male greyishly yellow, bases piceous ; abdomen 

 beneath ochraceous, with a central and lateral segmental 

 series of black spots; tegmina and wings hyaline, venation 

 brownish ochraceous ; tegmina with the costal membrane, 

 apical margin, bases of second, third, fifth, and seventh apical 

 areas, longitudinal veins to fifth, sixth, and seventh apical 

 areas, and spots at apices of longitudinal veins to upper four 

 ulnar areas umber-brown. 



Long., excl. tegm,, $ 18|- mm.; exp. tegm. 56 mm. 



Hub. Australia : Ardrossan, Yorke Peninsula {Tepper) ; 

 Gawler, S.A. (Macleay Mus.). 



A much smaller species than the Cicada umhrimarijo, 

 Walk. ; tegmina much shorter and their apices more rounded; 

 colour and markings also different. 



Mdampsalta cethiopica, sp. n. 



Body above black, sparingly palely ochraceously pilose ; 

 ocelli castaneous ; lateral margins of pronotum, lateral 

 margins of metanotum (narrowly), and posterior angles of 

 cruciform elevation pale ochraceous ; body beneath and 

 opercula pale ochraceous, strong suffusions to femora and 

 anterior and intermediate tibiai, tarsi (more or less), and a 

 broad, central, longitudinal fascia to abdomen piceous or 

 black ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation fuscous ; 

 the tegmina with the costal membrane more or less casta- 

 ncou.s, the upper vein of the lower ulnar area emitted at a 



