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Show 1882»] MR. W. L. DISTANT ON UNDESCRIBED CICADID.E. 129 TIBICEN GREGORYI, n. sp. (Plate VII. figs. 7, 7a, 7b.) S • Body above pale ochraceous. Head with the ocelli reddish, the eyes tinged with fuscous, mesonotum with two very obscure central obconical spots, a central discal longitudinal and two sub-lateral fasciae. Abdomen somewhat thickly covered with greyish pilosity. Body beneath and legs pale ochraceous, excepting the abdomen, which is pale fuscous. Tegmina and wings pale hyaline; tegmina with tbe venation ochraceous, excepting apical longitudinal veins and apical margins of apical areas, which are pale fuscous; transverse veins at bases of second and third apical areas broadly infuscated. The head is broad, and, including eyes, as wide as pronotum, of which the anterior and posterior width is subequal. The face is large, elongate, and very convex, with faint transverse striations. The rostrum reaches the posterior coxae. The opercula are small, broad, and rounded posteriorly, and about reach the posterior edge of metasternum. Long. 10 millim.; exp. tegm. 34 millim. Hab. Australia, Peak Downs. (Mus. Godeffroy.) This species is allied to the preceding (T. muelleri, Dist.), from which it differs in the broader and less anteriorly produced head, the shape of the pronotum, and in the different markings of the abdomen, tegmina, &c. MELAMPSALTA WARBURTONI, n. sp. (Plate VII. figs. 9, 9a,|96.) Head with the vertex black, the front ochraceous with a black central longitudinal line. Pronotum ochraceous, with a central longitudinal fascia, lateral and posterior margins dark castaneous. Mesonotum dark castaneous, with two pale irregular fasciae on disk, commencing on anterior margin and terminating at anterior angles of basal cruciform elevation; anterior lateral margins narrowly ochraceous. Abdomen ochraceous. Body beneath and legs ochraceous ; head black, with the face ochraceous, of which the transverse stria? are castaneous. Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, with the venation ochraceous. The body is sparingly pilose above; the anterior femora are armed with three strong spines; the rostrum just passes the intermediate coxae ; the face is narrowly but deeply sulcated longitudinally, and strongly transversely striate, Long. 15 millim.; exp. tegm. 38 millim. Hab. Australia, Peak Downs. (Mus. Godeffroy ; coll. Dist.) MELAMPSALTA FORRESTI. (Plate VII. figs. 10, 10a, 106.) ' cS • Body above ochraceous. Plead with a transverse black fascia between the eyes, partly surrounding ocelli. Pronotum with the frontal portion of the interior edge of lateral margins narrowly black, and the anterior edge of posterior margin broadly of the same colour; two small obscure fuscous spots on anterior margin. Mesonotum with the following fuscous markings:-two central obconical spots, and two of somewhat like shape near lateral PROC ZOOL. SOC-1882, No. IX. 9 |
