<)4 Howard Ashton: 



Psaltoda harrisi. Leach. 



Tcttigonia harrisii, Leach. Zool. Miscell., p. 89, pi. xxxix., 



fig. 2, 1814. 

 Cicada dichroa, Boisd. Voy. " Astrolabe," p. 613, pi. x., fig. 



7, 1832. 

 Fidicina subguttata, Walk. List. Horn., i., p. 95, 1850. 

 Psaltoda harrisi, Stal. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 4, i., p. 614, 1861. 



Psaltoda claripennis, n. sp. 



The greenish species named as a variety by Goding and 

 Froggatt, is, I feel sure, worthy of specific rank. I sent one 



■ of these to Mr. Distant some years ago, and he determined it 

 as a variety of P. harrisi. But there are, in all the specimens 

 I have seen, structural differences, which seem to me sufficient 

 grounds for elevating it into specific rank. The abdomen in 

 P. harrisi is very much longer than the head and thorax to- 

 gether; in this species it is about the same length. The head of 

 P. harrisi is relatively narrower. In P. harrisi again, the pos- 

 terior edge of posterior pronotal margin is straight; in this 

 species this edge is excavated very distinctly in the centre. The 

 face of P. harrisi is less globose. The opercula of this lighter 

 species meet in the centre, those of P. harrisi do not. The 

 rostrum of P. harrisi reaches the apices of the hind coxae, that 



■ of this species barely reaches the bases. I therefore propose 

 for this species the name Psaltoda claripennis. The habitat is 

 Queensland. 



Long, male 28 mm., female 24 mm. ; expanse of tegmina, male 

 84 mm., female 84 mm. 



Psaltoda insularis, Ashton. 



Psaltoda insularis, Asht. Proc. Roy. Soc. Vic, 1914, pt. i., p. 



14, pi. ii., fig. 4 a, b. 

 Type in Australian Museum, Sydney. Hab. — -Lord Howe 

 Island. 



Synopsis of Species. 



A. Abdomen black above. 



P. moerens. With hairy spots on sides of abdomen, teg- 

 mina and wings deeply apically infuscated. Thorax black above. 



