Australian Cicadidae. 103- 



M. hillicri. Thorax black and castaneous. Abdomen black- 

 front, very convex and prominent. 

 C. Wings not or every faintly marked with fuscous. 



M. hieroglyphic a. Thorax yellow, marked with castaneous. 

 Abdomen castaneous. 



M. godingi. Abdomen with yellow band toward apex. 



M. sylvara. Body mostly green. Abdomen piceous, tegmina 

 faintly marked with fuscous on anastomoses and apical longi- 

 tudinal veins. 



M. cxtrcma. Thorax green or yellow. Abdomen black with 

 segmental margins yellow, robust, tegmina unspotted. 



M. intersecta. Thorax green, more marked with black than 

 M. extreme, segmental abdominal margins yellow. Abdomen, 

 piceous to castaneous. 



M. dorsalis. Thorax and abdomen yellow, black longitudinal 

 dorsal patch on abdomen. Tegmina immaculate. 



M. frenchi. Body chestnut, head yellow, pronotal margins 

 yellow. 



M. nigrosignata. Body and head chestnut. Tegmina with 

 basal cell black. 



M. vulpina. Body piceous to castaneous. Allied to M. kiUieri, 

 but smaller, and tegmina unspotted. 



Genus Cicada, Stal. 



Type C. plcbeja, Scop. (Asia Minor.) 



Cicada graminea, Distant. 



Cicada graminca, Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 7, xiv., p. 

 428, 1904. 



Cicada queenslandica, Kirk. Canad. Ent., 41, p. 391, 1910. 



Female. — Head and thorax grass-green, pronotum inclining to 

 ochraceous (probably through discolouration). Head with basal 

 and lateral areas to face, transverse fascia between eyes, basal 

 margin and area of, ocelli, purplish-brown. Pronotum with two 

 central lines (united anteriorly and posteriorly), and incisures 

 purplish-brown. Mesonotum with two short obconical spots, 

 on each side a longer spot, central lanceolate spot. Spot in front 

 of each anterior angle of cruciform, elevation purplish brown, 

 outwardly margined with greenish ochraceous. Abdomen above 

 somewhat thickly greyishly tomentose. Body beneath and legs 

 more ochraceous than abdomen, the latter with some central discal 



