330 I\Ir. W. L. Distant oti TTomoptera. 



greyislily pilose; tegmina semihyaline, venation fuscous, 

 basal cell, costal membrane, and costal area ocliraceons, 

 transverse veins at apices of first, second, fourth, and fifth 

 ulnar areas more or less piceously infuscated and with a 

 small fuscous spot on each longitudinal vein (excluding 

 uppermost) to apical areas ; wings semihyaline, venation 

 ochraceous, apically fuscous, base narrowly uchraceous. 



Face very globular and prominent ; head (including eyes) 

 wider than anterior margin of pronotum ; rostrum reaching 

 posterior coxa?. 



Long., excl. tegm., $ 32 mm.; exp. tegm. 95 mm. 



Hab. North Queensland. 



Allied to M. intersecta^ Walk., from which it differs by the 

 more prominent face, spotted tegmina, different colour- 

 markings, &c. I have not seen the male. 



Genus Cicada. 



Cicada, Linn. Svst. Nat. i. p. 704 (1766). 



Subgen. Chremistka, St 51, (Efv. Vet.-Akad. FoiL. 1870, p. 714. 



Subgen. Diceroprocta, Stal, loc. cit. 



Type genus Cicada — C. pleheja, Scop. 

 ,, subgen. Chremistica — (J. viridis, Fabr. [Tettigonia). 

 „ „ Diceroprocta — D.transversa,^N2i\k.,{Gicada). 



Cicada Andrewsi, sp. n. 



$ . Body and legs pale ochraceous ; eyes piceous ; ocelli 

 shining testaceous ; pronotum with the lateral areas from 

 inner incisure to edges of margins pale brownish castaneous; 

 tegmina and wings pale hyaline, unspotted, and without any 

 sufiusions, the venation ochraceous. 



Head with the vertex longitudinally incised, face mode- 

 rately globose, with an obscure central longitudinal sulcation, 

 its lateral areas transversely striate ; pronotum with its disk 

 posteriorly, centrally, transversely incised before the poste- 

 rior margin, which is strongly transversely striate ; rostrum 

 reaching the posterior coxa?. 



Long., excl. tegm., $ 30 mm. ; exp. tegm. 92 mm. 



Ilab. Japan: Yesso [Waller Andrews , Brit. Mus.). 



Cicada umbrosa, sp. n. 



(J. Body umber-brown ; the two central oblique incisures 

 to pronotum black ; mesonotum with two central obconical 

 spots extending about halfway between anterior margin and 

 the basal cruciform elevation, obscurely piceous, and on each 



