1882.] MR. W. L. DISTANT ON UNDESCRIBED CICADID. 131 
MELAMPSALTA OXLEYI, 0. sp. 
Q. 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 aaterior 
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 strong transverse striations. Rostrum 
reaching the intermediate coxze ; 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, 146.) 
2. 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 striz 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, cox 
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 hyaline ; tegmina with the 
costal membrane greenish-ochraceous, the veins fuscous. 
The rostrum about reaches posterior coxe; the face is broad, 
deeply and longitudinally sulcated, and transversely strongly striated ; 
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