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Show 1882.] MR. W . L. D I S T A N T O N U N D E S C R I B E D CICADID.E. 131 MELAMPSALTA OXLEYI, n. sp. 2 • Body above ochraceous. Head with the frontal margin, lateral margins of vertex, inner margins of eyes, and area of the ocelli (the last extending to base of head, and connected with inner margins of eyes) very dark castaneous. Pronotum with a pale central longitudinal fascia, bordered with black on each side, widest anteriorly and narrowed posteriorly ; lateral and posterior margins much paler, inner border of first, and outer third of inner border of the second, narrowly fuscous. Mesonotum with two short central obconical spots and two large sublateral and subtriangular spots dark fuscous, and a small rounded fuscous spot at each anterior angle of basal cruciform elevation. Abdomen with segmental bases very broadly fuscous, and with a large fuscous streak on each side of anal appendage. Body beneath pale ochraceous ; face, rostrum, and two small spots at base of ovipositor more or less fuscous. Tegmina and wings pale hyaline; tegmina with the venation pale ochraceous, transverse veins at bases of second and third apical areas broadly and darkly infuscated; upper margin of first apical area, outer margin of first to seventh apical areas, gradually increasing in width, till the whole of the sixth and greater part of the fifth and seventh areas are occupied, and apical external margin dark fuscous. The head is broad, and with outer margins of eyes about equals in width the base of pronotum ; the face is moderately convex, with a deep longitudinal sulcation and strong transverse striations. Rostrum reaching the intermediate coxae ; and body sparingly pilose above and more densely so beneath. Long. 18 millim.; exp. tegm. 48 millim. Hab. Australia, Peak Downs. (Mus. Godeffroy.) The tegminal markings render this species very distinct. I have seen but one specimen (here described), which is a female. MELAMPSALTA LANDSBOROUGHI, n. sp. (Plate VII. figs. 14, 14a, 146.) 2 • Head black, with a central longitudinal line to front and three basal spots ochraceous. Pronotum dull ochraceous, with a central pale fascia bordered with black, a short angulated fascia on disk and oblique striae also black, lateral and posterior margins more or less shaded with black. Mesonotum black, very faintly and obscurely marked with ochraceous, the basal cruciform elevation pale ochraceous. Abdomen ochraceous with a broad central black fascia; the anal appendage with the lateral sides also broadly black. Body beneath, with the head, black, lateral margins of face ochraceous. Sternum much shaded with black. Legs ochraceous, coxae and femora streaked with black and fuscous markings, anal appendage black, with a large spot on each lateral margin and extreme apex luteous. Tegmina and wings pale hyaline ; tegmina with the costal membrane greenish-ochraceous, the veins fuscous. The rostrum about reaches posterior coxae; the face is broad, deeply and longitudinally sulcated, and transversely strongly striated |