undescribed Species o/Cicadidte. 489 



men in male longer than space between apex of head and 

 base of cruciform elevation ; tympana entirely exposed ; 

 opercula in male short, transverse, widely separated, not 

 extending beyond basal segment of abdomen ; rostrum 

 reaching the intermediate coxae; tegmina semiopaque, three 

 times longer than greatest breadth, costal margin neither 

 arched nor gibbous, basal cell about twice as long as broad, 

 apical areas eight; wings with six apical areas; anterior 

 femora not prominently spined beneath. 



Allied to Gudanga, Dist., but with the head (including 

 eyes) not narrower than base of mesonotum, mesonotum 

 (including cruciform elevation) as long as head and pronotum 

 together, rostrum only reaching intermediate coxpe, tegmina 

 three times longer than broad, &c. 



Paragudanga broioni, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and mesonotum black ; pronotum with 

 narrow anterior and posterior margins, a narrow central 

 longitudinal line, and two central spots near base olivaceous 

 brown ; mesonotum with the margins of two central ob- 

 conical spots and the basal cruciform elevation olivaceous 

 brown ; abdomen above testaceous, the base, a central 

 longitudinal fascia, and the lateral margins (narrowly) 

 black ; sternum black, palely pilose ; lateral and apical 

 margins of face, discal suffusions, and coxa? ochraceous ; 

 abdomen beneath ochraceous, a central longitudinal fascia 

 and the lateral margins (narrowly) black ; legs black, 

 streaked with ochraceous ; tegmina pale fuscous brown, the 

 veins and costal membrane ochraceous, the veins margined 

 with dark fuscous brown ; wings sanguineous, nearly apical 

 third and posterior margin pale fuscous brown ; vertex 

 distinctly sulcated between the ocelli ; face broadly, centrally, 

 longitudinally silicate, the margins of the sulcation sinuous ; 

 opercula broader than long, their apices roundly truncate; 

 other structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Long., excl. tegm., <$ 20 mm.; exp. tegm. 41 mm. 



Hab. N.W. Australia, Cue (H. W. Brown, type Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Melampsalta cuensis, sp. n. 



Body and legs virescent ; ocelli red ; eyes castaneous : 

 tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation virescent, extreme 

 bases of both tegmina and wings ochraceous ; vertex longer 

 than front, longitudinally incised between the ocelli ; face 

 moderately globose, central longitudinal sulcation narrow, 

 the transverse striations not strongly pronounced ; rostrum 

 reaching the intermediate coxa?; tegmina nearly three times 



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