1882.] MR. W. L. DISTANT ON UNDESCRIBED CICADID.E. 131 



Melampsalta oxleyi, n. sp. 



5 . Body above ochraceous. Head with the frontal margin, 

 lateral margins of vertex, inner margins of eyes, and area of the 

 ocelli (the last extending to base of head, and connected with inner 

 margins of eyes) very dark castaneous. Pronotum with a pale cen- 

 tral longitudinal fascia, bordered with black on each side, widest 

 anteriorly and narrowed posteriorly ; lateral and posterior margins 

 much paler, inner border of first, and outer third of inner border of 

 the second, narrowly fuscous. Mesonotum with two short central 

 obconical spots and two large sublateral and subtriangular spots 

 dark fuscous, and a small rounded fuscous spot at each anterior 

 angle of basal cruciform elevation. Abdomen with segmental bases 

 very broadly fuscous, and with a large fuscous streak on each side of 

 anal appendage. Body beneath pale ochraceous ; face, rostrum, and 

 two small spots at base of ovipositor more or less fuscous. Tegmina 

 and wings pale hyaline ; tegmina with the venation pale ochraceous, 

 transverse veins at bases of second and third apical areas broadly 

 and darkly infuscated ; upper margin of first apical area, outer mar- 

 gin of first to seventh apical areas, gradually increasing in width, till 

 the whole of the sixth and greater part of the fifth and seventh areas 

 are occupied, and apical external margin dark fuscous. 



The head is broad, and with outer margins of eyes about equals in 

 width the base of pronotum ; the face is moderately convex, with a 

 deep longitudinal sulcation and sti'ong transverse striations. Rostrum 

 reaching the intermediate coxae ; and body sparingly pilose above and 

 more densely so beneath. 



Long. 18 millim. ; exp. tegm. 48 millim. 



Hab. Australia, Peak Downs. (Mus. GodefFroy.) 



The tegminal markings render this species very distinct. I have 

 seen but one specimen (here described), which is a female. 



Melampsalta landsboroughi, n. sp. (Plate VII. figs. 14, 

 14a, 145.) 



$ . Head black, with a central longitudinal line to front and 

 three basal spots ochraceous. Pronotum dull ochraceous, with a 

 central pale fascia bordered with black, a short angulated fascia on 

 disk and oblique striae also black, lateral and posterior margins 

 more or less shaded with black. Mesonotum black, very faintly 

 and obscurely marked with ochraceous, the basal cruciform elevation 

 pale ochraceous. Abdomen ochraceous with a broad central black 

 fascia ; the anal appendage with the lateral sides also broadly black. 

 Body beneath, with the head, black, lateral margins of face ochra- 

 ceous. Sternum much shaded with black. Legs ochraceous, coxae 

 and femora streaked with black and fuscous markings, anal appen- 

 dage black, with a large spot on each lateral margin and extreme 

 apex luteous. Tegmina and wings pale hyahne ; tegmina with the 

 costal membrane greenish-ochraceous, the veins fuscous. 



The rostrum about reaches posterior coxae ; the face is broad, 

 deeply and longitudinally sulcated, and transversely strongly striated ; 



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