272 Mr. W. L. Distant on Horaoptera. 



suffusions at bases of apical areas lacteons ; a black streak in 

 basal cell, costal membrane, and about basal half of venation 

 ochraceous, remaining venation brownish ochraceous, costal 

 edge of postcostal area fuscous, upper vein of lower ulnar 

 area connected with lower vein of radial area for some distance 

 from base ; wings jiyaline, venation ocliraceous, base and 

 anal area lacteous ; opercula in male black, transverse, poste- 

 riorly rounded, not passing base of abdomen. 



Long-., excl. tegra., J* 17 mm.; exp. tegm. 39 ram. 



Uab. Australia: Melbourne (Brit. Mus.). 



Melampsalta issoides. 

 issoides, Walk., MS. 



Head black, with a linear spot to front and a small rounded 

 spot at base of vertex ochraceous ; pronotum dull testaceous, 

 the submargins and two central lines dilated posteriorly, 

 black, the incisures piceous ; mesonotum black, with two 

 very obscure central obconical spots^ the margins of which 

 are dull testaceous, lateral margins, cruciform elevation, and 

 margins of metanotum, pale testaceous; posterior segmental 

 margins obscurely testaceous; body beneath and legs thickly 

 ochraceously pilose ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation 

 fuscous, a somewhat broad (broadest at apex) oblique fuscous 

 fascia crossing tegmina at bases of apical areas, more or less 

 broken posteriorly, the upper vein of lower ulnar area emitted 

 at only a short distance from base of radial area ; opercula in 

 male small, posteriorly rounded, not extending beyond base 

 of abdomen. 



Long., excl. tegm., ^ 12 mm. ; exp. tegm. 27 mm. 



Hah. Australia : New South Wales ; Swan River (Brit. 

 Mus.). West Australia: Perth (//. J, Turner^ Brit. Mus.). 



Genus Pauropsalta. 



Fain-opsalta, God. & Frogs-. Pi'oc- Li^n- Sue. N. S. Wales, 1904, 

 p. G1.5. 



Type, P. mneme, Walk. {Cicada) j = P. leurensis, God. & 

 Frogg. ^ 



Mr. Froggatt has very kindly sent me a number of co-types 

 of the species he described and identified in conjunction with 

 Mr. Goding in their monograph of the ^Australian Cicadidje. 

 I am thus enabled to fix the exact nomenclature of the type 

 of their genus. All further synonymy will appear in my 

 synonymic catalogue. It is scarcely to be expected that 

 YValker's descriptions allow identifications to be made with 



