FAM. CICADID.E 2 3 



shorter than mesonotum including the cruciform elevation, the lateral margins not convexly ampliated 

 but considerably narrowed anteriorly ; mesonotum with its base narrower than head including eyes ; 

 abdomen considerably longer than broad, beneath more or less obliquely depressed from base to apex ; 

 opercula short, not or scarce!}' passing base of abdomen; tympana covered; tegmina about three times 

 as long as broad, basal cell longer than broad, apical areas eight ; wings more than half the length of 

 tegmina, apical areas six. 



Type. — P. mcerens, Germar. 



Geographical distribution of species. — Australia. 



A. Tegmina with the transverse veins at bases of upper apical areas distinctly infuscated. 



a. Abdomen above black or piceous. 



i. P. mcerens. Australia, Tasmania. 



Cicada mrei-£KS,GermarinSilbermann,Rev.Ent.Vol.2, p. 67 (1834); McCoy, 



Prodr. Zool. Vict, decad. v. p. 53, t. I, f. 1-2 (1880). 

 « Black Cicada or Red Even, Froggatt, Agric. Gaz. N. S. Wales, Vol. 14, 

 pp. 340 and 421, f. 2 (1903). 



2. P. argentata. Australia. 



Cicada argentata, Germar in Silbermann, Rev. Ent. Vol. 2, p. 66 (1S34). 

 Cicada piaga, Walker, List Horn. Vol. 1, p. 109 (iS5o). 



3 . P . pirtibasis . , Australia. 



Cicada pictibasis, Walker, List Horn. Suppl. p. 3i (i858). 



b. Abdomen above more or less reddish-achraceous or testaceous. 



4. P. aurora. — PI. 3, Figs. 20a, b, C. Australia. 



Psaltoda aurora, Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (1S81), p. 644. 



5. P. flavescens. Australia. 



Psaltoda flavescens. Distant. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), Vol. 10, p. 55 (1892). 



B. Tegmina with the transverse veins at bases of upper apical areas not, or very slightly, 

 infuscated. 



6. P. harrisi. Australia. 



Tettigonia Harrisii. Leach, Zool. Miscell. Vol. 1, p. 89, t. 3g, f. 2 (1814). 

 Cicada dichroa, Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, p. 6i3, t. 10, f. 7 (i832). 

 Fidicina subguttata, Walker, List Horn. Vol. 1, p. 95 (i85o). 



7. P. phbeia. N. S. Wales. 



Psaltoda plebeia, Goding and Froggatt, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 (1904), p. 58g. 



8. P.pulchra. Queensland. 



Psaltoda pulchra, Ashton, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria (N. S.), Vol. 24, p. 222, 

 pi. 5o, f. 3a. b (1912). 



9. P. fumipennis. Port Darwin. 



Psaltoda iumipennis, Ashton, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria (N. S.), Vol. 24, 

 p. 222, pi. 49, f. 2a. b (1912). 



21. Genus NEOPSALTODA, Distant 



Neopsaltoda. Distant, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1910, p. 415. 



Characters. — Head including eyes much broader than base of mesonotum, medial length 

 about half the breadth between eyes, front prominent, at somewhat right angles with the lateral 

 margins of the vertex which are straightly oblique; eyes somewhat large and prominent, extending 



