420 Mr. W. L. Distant on Homoptera. 



bases of both narrowly ocliraceous, venation and the costal 

 area of tegmina ochraceous. 



? . Body very robust ; front somewhat subangularly 

 prominent ; ocelli purplish red ; pronotum with two central 

 longitudinal lines, which broaden outwardly a little ante- 

 riorly and very widely so posteriorly ; between these lines on 

 anterior disk the surface is deepened or sulcate ; face globose, 

 strongly, centrally, longitudinally sulcate, lateral areas 

 robustly transversely striate ; rostrum slightly passing the 

 intermediate coxee ; tegmina with the bases of the upper vein 

 to lower ulnar area and the lower vein to radial area fused 

 for less than the length of basal cell. 



Long., excl. tegm., ? , 17-18 mm.; exp. tegm. 50 mm. 



Ilab. N. T., S. Australia; Hermansburg {H. J. Ilillier, 

 Brit. Mus.). 



Melavipsalta kewelensis, sp. n. 



? . Vertex and front black ; a central longitudinal fascia 

 to front, lateral margins of vertex, and a basal spot between 

 the ocelli pale ochraceous; pronotum brownish ochraceous, 

 mottled with piceous, a broad, central, hourglass-shaped, 

 black fascia, containing a central, elongate, pale ochraceous 

 spot, anterior, posterior, and lateral margins pale ochra- 

 ceous, sublateral and subbasal margins black; mesonotum 

 black, with two central longitudinal fascice, the anterior 

 halves of which are narrow, the posterior halves widened, 

 notched, and continued to basal cruciform elevation, and a 

 large oblong spot on each lateral margin, pale ochraceous ; 

 cruciform elevation pale ochraceous ; abdomen above black, 

 the segmental margins and the apical segment pale ochra- 

 ceous, the latter with three longitudinal black fascise ; head 

 beneath black ; a basal spot and margins to face, a trans- 

 verse basal line between face and eyes, and apex of clypeus, 

 pale ochraceous ; body beneath and legs pale ochraceous ; 

 coxge and legs spotted or streaked with black ; tegmina 

 hyaline, talc-like, the venation dull ochraceous, postcostal 

 nuirgin, u}>per margin of basal cell, and base of posterior 

 claval margin black ; wings hyaline, the venation ochraceous; 

 rostrum reaching the posterior coxfe ; tegmina with the upper 

 vein to lower ulnar area and the lower vein of radial area 

 fused for about the length of basal cell. 



Long., excl. tegm., ? , 17 mm. ; exp. tegm. 40 mm. 



Ilah. Victoria; Kewel {Hill). 



Allied to M. Waterliousei, Dist. 



