100 Howard Ashton : 



Macrotristria sylvara, Distant. 



Cicada sylvara, Dist. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 591, pi. xvi. r 



fig. 1 a, b, 1901. 

 Macrotristria sylvara, Dist. Syn. Cat. Horn. Cicad., 1906, p. 31. 



Cicada sylvana, God. and Frog. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.,. 

 1904, p. 580. 



Macleay and South Australian Museums. Coll. H.A. 'Hab. — 

 Queensland. 



Macrotristria nigronervosa, Distant. 



Macrotristria nigronerrosa, Dist. Ann. Mag. Hist., 7, xiv., p^ 

 329, 1904. 



Head, pronotum and mesonotum ochraceous, head with face 

 castaneous, ornamented with a piceous central fascia, and an 

 oblique ochraceous spot on each side of base; the area of ocelli, 

 inner margins of eyes, and narrow basal margin black. Pronotum 

 with two very small sub-basal central black spots. Mesonotum 

 with two central obconical spots on anterior margins black, each 

 spot with a small ochraceous spot, the anterior margins on each 

 side of these spots also narrowly black. Abdomen above black,, 

 posterior segmental margins narrowly ochraceous, margin of 

 sixth segment, base and apex of anal segment, broadly ochraceous. 

 Body beneath and lees ochraceous, anterior and intermediate 

 tibiae and tarsi castaneous, body more or less greyishly pilose.. 

 Tegmina semihyaline, venation fuscous, basal cell, costal mem- 

 brane and costal area ochraceous, transverse veins at apices of 

 first, second, third and fourth ulnar areas more or less piceously 

 infuscated, and a small fuscous spot on each longitudinal vein 

 (excluding the uppermost) to apical areas. Wings semihyaline, 

 venation ochraceous, apically fuscous, base narrowly ochraceous. 

 Face very globose and prominent, head, including eyes, wider 

 than anterior angles of pronotum, rostrum reaching posterior 

 coxae. Long, female 36 mm., exp. teg. 95 mm. Hab. — North. 

 Queensland. 



Allied to M. intersecta, Walk., from which it differs by the 

 more prominent face, spotted tegmina, different colour, markings,, 

 etc. 



This species is in none of the collections here. The above is. 

 the original description. 



