. Australian insects. Insects. 351 a. of which were ouce placed in the geuiis Tibiceii; while^'Tettiyia tristiytna in the type of the iiinnis'^Tdinasa. The handsome black and yellow mottled^/acowa muvidatu, common in India and (Jhiua, has been recorded by White from Australia, and (Joding and I had specimens from the Northern Territory of S. Australia, but Distant does not notice this record. The Sub-family Tibicininae have the front edge of the basal abdominal segment straight, not produced forward; and the sound organs are entirely uncovered. ^Tcnustria supcrha is a curious ferru
. Australian insects. Insects. 351 a. of which were ouce placed in the geuiis Tibiceii; while^'Tettiyia tristiytna in the type of the iiinnis'^Tdinasa. The handsome black and yellow mottled^/acowa muvidatu, common in India and (Jhiua, has been recorded by White from Australia, and (Joding and I had specimens from the Northern Territory of S. Australia, but Distant does not notice this record. The Sub-family Tibicininae have the front edge of the basal abdominal segment straight, not produced forward; and the sound organs are entirely uncovered. ^Tcnustria supcrha is a curious ferruginous insect with rich coppery tints upon the tegmina and wings, which comes from North Queensland. Dodd usually collected it in the neighbourhood of termite C3 Fig. \bQ-—liditicopsaltria eijdouxi {Qu(:r\n). The Mottled Cicada. ("Agricultural (Jazette," ) The Genus A&n"c#fi. now includes most of our species pre- viously placed in the Genus'^fi&icew; thirteen are listed from Australia. Ahricta curvicosta, one of the largest, measures about 4 inches across the wings; is reddish brown with a pale stripe down the centre of the prothorax. and three black spots on each of the tegmina. It is one of the common species about Sydney, , in midsummer, and is called the "Floury Miller" on a(;count of the silvery pubescence covering the body which makes it look as if it had been dusted with flour. ^A. aurata ranges from Tasmania and Victoria into the "southern districts of N. S. Wales, and is usually found upon the fern trees; it is a smaller darker coloured cicada with a large, sometimes double, black spot on each tegmina. Distant (Pro. Zool. Soc. 1882) described a number of new species chiefly obtained from North Queensland; and, finding it difficult to give them distinctive specific names that would define their peculiarities, he got over the difficulty by naming them aft(M' Australian explorers.^ .1. icillsl is a small sp
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