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IIOMOl'TKKA 



bevond the anterior angles of the pronotum ; pronotum with the medial length about halt' as long 

 as breadth at base, the anterior margin arcuate thus narrowing towards lateral margins which are 

 rounded, posterior margin subtruncate: mesonotum including cruciform elevation nearly as long is 

 broad; abdomen short and broad, but longer than greatest breadth, second segment very broad, 

 dilated at lateral margins and lobately continued on each side beneath, the true tympanal coverings 

 entire; opercula somewhat short, broader than long, overlapping internally, their apices broadly 

 rounded; rostrum passing the intermediate coxae; tegmina and wings subhyaline; tegmina about 

 two and a half times as long as greatest breadth, apical areas eight; wings about twice as long as 

 broad, 1 apical areas six; abdomen beneath more or less oblique depressed from near base to apex. 



Type. — ■ A", crassa, Distant. 



Geographical distribution of species. — Queensland. 



i. Neopsalioda crassa — PI. 4, Figs. 2 I a, b, C. Queensland. 



Neopsaltoda crassa, Distant, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 11910). p. 416. 



22. Genus henicopsaltria, Stal 



Henicopsaltria. Stal, Hem. Afr. Vol. 4, p. 7 (1866). 



Characters. — Head including eyes about as broad as base of mesonotum and about as long 

 as pronotum and as breadth between eyes; ocelli much closer together than to eyes, on disk of vertex ; 

 face longer than broad, moderately globose; pronotum shorter than mesonotum including the basal 

 cruciform elevation, lateral margins not convexly ampliated but considerably narrowed anteriorly; 

 abdomen about or almost as broad as long, and very slightly longer than space between apex of head 

 and base of cruciform elevation; tympana concealed, the coverings somewhat large; opercula not or 

 very slightly passing base of abdomen; rostrum passing posterior coxae; abdomen beneath more or less 

 obliquely depressed from base to apex; tegmina about three times as long as broad, basal cell longer 

 than broad, apical areas eight; wings about half the length of tegmina, apical areas six. 



Type. — H. eydonxi, Guerin. 



Geographical distribution of species. — Australia. 



A. Abdomen without transverse white fasciae; tegmina usually with some of the veins infuscate 

 but not maculate. 



1. H. eydouxi. Australia. 



Cicada Eydouxii, Guerin, Voy. « Coquille », Zuol. Vol. 2 12), p. 181 (i83o). 

 Psaltoda flavesctns, Froggatt, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales (i8g5), p. 53o. 

 « The Mottled Grey Cicada », Froggatt, Agr. Gaz. X. S. Wales, Vol. 14, 

 p. 420-421, f. 1 I igo3). 



2. H. hehalli. Queensland. 



Henicopsaltria hehalli, Distant, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. (1910), p. 416. 



B. Abdomen more or less transversely spotted or fasciated with white; tegmina distinctly 

 maculate. 



3. H.fullo. — PI. 4, Figs. 22a, b, c. Australia. 



Fidicina fullo, Walker, List Horn. Vol. 1, p. y6 (i85o). 



4. H. pygmcea. Australia. 



Henicopsaltria pygmcea, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), Vol. 14, p. 3o3 

 (1904). 



5. H. nubivcna. Australia. 



Fidicina nubivena, Walker, List Horn. Suppl. p. 17 (18S8). 



