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striate, medially longitudinally interrupted ; rostrum reaching 

 the intermediate coxse ; body beneath greyishly pilose and 

 the abdominal segments narrowly margined with ochraceous. 



Long., excl. tegm., ? , 36 mm.; exp. tegra. 118 mm. 



Hab. Queensland {F. P. Dodd, Brit. Mus.). 



Macrotristria Hillieri, sp. n. 



Vertex black, the lateral margins, two transverse basal 

 lines near inner margins of eyes, and a central basal point 

 behind ocelli pale ochraceous ; pronotura black, the lateral 

 areas gradually broadening from disk piceous brown, a central 

 longitudinal line, the posterior margin (narrowly) and which 

 is extended upwardly near each posterior angle, and the 

 anterior angle of lateral margins pale ochraceous ; mesonotnm 

 black, two central, obconical, dark castaneous spots, which 

 are narrowly margined with pale ochraceous, the lateral 

 margins greyishly pilose, the cruciform elevation ochraceous ; 

 lateral margins of the metasternum ochraceous; abdomen 

 above black, the abdominal margins (narrowly transversely 

 and broadly laterally) and the apical segment calcareously 

 tomentose, the white lateral margins spotted with black ; 

 body beneath more or less greyishly tomentose ; a small 

 central spot on basal margin of face, a large transverse spot 

 between face and eyes, posterior margins to the sternal and 

 abdominal segments, opercula, coxa^, and apices of the femora, 

 ochraceous ; rostrum black, ochraceous at base ; tegmina and 

 wings pale hyaline, talc-like, tegmina with the venation 

 ochraceous at base, piceous on apical two thirds, costal and 

 postcostal areas black margined with ochraceous ; wings with 

 the veins mostly ochraceous, a few black on basal area ; head 

 above subangularly produced, the front prominent; face 

 globosely compressed, strongly transversely ridged, with a 

 central longitudinal carinate line ; rostrum reaching the 

 posterior coxae ; opercula in the male transverse, well sepa- 

 rated internally, moderately broadly convex posteriorly, not 

 extending beyond the basal segment. 



Long., excl. tegm., S ? , 27-32 mm. ; exp. tegm. 91- 

 102 mm. 



Hah. N. T., S. Australia ; Hermansburg (//. J. llillier^ 

 Brit. Mus.). 



Cicada Knowlest, sp. n. 



Vertex from base to the anterior margins of the eyes black, 

 its lateral niargins, ocelli, and front ochraceous, base of front 

 and a transverse spot at the apex of each lateral margin 



