Australian Gicadidae. 9¥ 



Henicopsaltria interclusia, Stal. Berl. Ent. Zeit., x., p. 171,.. 



1866. 

 Arunta inter clusa., Dist. Syn. Cat. Horn. Cicad., 1906, p. 27. 

 Arunta flava, Asht. Rec. Aust. Mus. Sydney, ix., i., p. 76, 



pi. vii., figs. 1 and 2, 1912. 

 Specimens in Sydney and Adelaide Museums, and Coll H.A.. 

 Hob. — Queensland. 



Arunta intermedia, n. sp. 



Head greenish-yellow, with margins of front, fascia between 

 eyes, including vertical margins and region of ocelli, and narrow 

 fascia on posterior margin, black. Pronotum reddish, a central 

 stripe (narrower posteriorly, and surrounded by a black line),. 

 yellow, posterior margin yellowish testaceous. Mesonoturn, with 

 two small anterior obconical spots (margined with yellow), and 

 a broad fascia on each side, inwardly much broken, deep brown, 

 a black central longitudinal line, and spots before cruciform 

 elevation. 



Abdomen light brown, with a spot of white tomentum on 

 second segment, a few black transverse markings on apical seg- 

 ments. Tympanal sacs testaceous, devoid of tomentum, abdo- 

 men beneath, and sternum also bare of the usual white " flour." 

 Tegmina and wings talc-like, venation from pale to dark fuscous, 

 basal venation of wings whitish, first two anastomoses to teg- 

 minal apical areas palely infuscated. 



Long. — Male, 31 mm.; female, 33 mm. Expanse of tegmina,. 

 male, 103 mm. ; female, 100 mm. 



Hob. — Cape York, N. Queensland. 



One male and two females in Coll. H.A., Coll. by H. Elgner r . 

 1906. 



Synopsis of Species. 



A. pemlata. Body robust, dark chestnut to piceous, anal plate- 

 beneath testaceous with central black line. Much powdered with, 

 white. 



A. intermedia. Body not so robust, brown, anal plate beneath 

 all deep brown. Not powdered with white. 



A. interchisa. Body yellow with black markings, powdereol 

 ivith white, anal plate beneath testaceous. Tegmina unmarked. 



