The Sub-family GAENINAE contains a number of South American and Asiatic cicadas, among them some with very brightly coloured wings. Two members of the Genus _Tettigia_ are found in North Queensland and North Australia, both of which were once placed in the genus _Tibicen_; while _Tettigia tristigma_ is the type of the Genus _Tamasa_. The handsome black and yellow mottled _Gaeana maculata_, common in India and China, has been recorded by White from Australia, and Goding 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. _Venustria superba_ 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 nests. [Illustration: =Fig. 156.=--_Henicopsaltria eydouxi_ (Guérin). The Mottled Grey Cicada. (“Agricultural Gazette,” N.S.W.)] The Genus _Abricta_ now includes most of our species previously placed in the Genus _Tibicen_; thirteen are listed from Australia. _Abricta 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, N.S.W., in midsummer, and is called the “Floury Miller” on account 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 after Australian explorers. _A. willsi_ is a small species measuring about two inches across the wings, which are marked with two small spots, and it can be easily distinguished from all the others by the curious rugose yellowish patch on the sides of the prothorax. It has a very wide range over N.S. Wales, Queensland, North, and probably W. Australia, both along the coast and in the interior. _Parnkella muelleri_ is only about 1½ inches across the wings which have two spots on each tegmina, and is of a pale yellow tint. It is restricted in its range to North Queensland. The tiny little yellowish green cicada found upon the grassy plains of Southern Victoria and S. Australia, described as _Tibicen infans_, is now placed in the South African Genus _Quintilia_. [Illustration: =Fig. 157.=--_Macrotristria (cicada) angularis_ (Germer). The “Fiddler.”