52 Uv. W. L. Distant on 



tlie extreme costal margin, tlie postcostal membrane, tlie 

 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 greyislily pilose; oper- 

 cuU-x transverse, well separated internally, posterior margins 

 broadlv rounded ; face longer than broad, distinctly centrally 

 longitudinally sulcata, strongly transversely carinate, the 

 lateral areas depressed. 



Long., excl. tegm., S , 18 mm. ; exp. tegm, 50 mm. 



[Jah. South Queensland; Stradbroke Island {IJ. Hacker). 

 Type Brit. Mus. 



Allied to M. lahyrinthica^ Walk. 



Melampsalta tooiooomhoi, sp. n. 



? . Head, pronotum, and mesonotum bhick, head with the 

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

 between tlie 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 

 segn>€nts., and the apical area black, the last with a long 

 angulate ochraceous spot ; head beneath and sternum black, 

 abdomen beneath and legs ochraceous ; coxaj, trochanters, 

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

 men beiieatli black; tegmina and wings hyaline, venation 

 black, costal and postcostal membrane and a basal streak 

 betbre clavus ochraceous ; wings with the base narrowly 

 ochraceous ; head foveat^ly 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 {ITamlyn- Harris). 

 Type Brit. Mus. 



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



SlNONYMICAL NOTES. 



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

 ])1. iii., Mr. tloward Ashton has described " Tliree 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. 



