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Synonymic Notes on a Recent Catalogue of 

 cicadidae rn the south australian museum. 



By Howard Ashton. 

 (Communicated by A. M. Lea.) 



[Read April 8, 1915.] 



Amongst the species described in my recent Catalogue of 

 the Cicadidae of the South Australian Museum (D are several 

 from Cue, Western Australia, collected by H. W. Brown. In 

 respect to some of these, I find I have been forestalled by Mr. 

 W. L. Distant in the Magazine of Natural History (xii., 

 1913). The following are the synonyms: — 



Abricta noctua, Dist., Mag. Nat. Hist., xii., 1913, 

 p. 487. 



Abricta rufo7iigra, Ashton, Proc. Boy. Soc, S.A., 

 xxxviii., 1914, p. 349, pi. xvii., figs. 6, 6rt, 65. 



KoBONGA FROGGATTi, Dist., Mag. Nat. Hist., xii., 1913^ 

 p. 490. 



Kohonga castanea, Ashton, Proc. Boy. Soc, S.A., 

 xxxviii., 1914, p. 351, p. xvii., figs. 5, ba. 



Melampsalta cuensis, Dist., Mag. Nat. Hist., xii., 

 1913, p. 489. 



Melampsalta hermannshurgensis, Dist., Ashton, Proc. 

 Boy. Soc, S.A., xxxviii., 1914, p. 354 (nee. Dist.). 



Erratum. 



Ashton, Proc. Boy. Soc, S.A., xxxviii., 1914, p. 354, 

 for M. SUBGLUSA read M. subgulosa. 



{DAnte, 1914, pp. 345-358. 



