33o Dr. L. Melichar. 



Corpus elongatum, subcylindricum. Caput thorace nonnihil angustis, ante oculos 

 valde prominens; vertice antice triangulariter producto, oculis duplo latiore; fronte 

 valde reclinata, multo longiore quam latiore, sursum angustata, unicarinata; clypeo 

 tricarinato. Rostrum pedes posticos attingens, articulo ultimo elongato. Articulus 

 secundus antennarum subovalis. Thorax antice angulato-productus, postice profunde 

 subangulato-emarginatus. Scutellum tricarinatum. Tegmina amplissima, parte anteriore 

 clavi excepta tota densissime reticulata, clavi venis duabus ante medium clavi in unam 

 conjunctis. Pedes longiusculi; tibiis anterioribus feraoribus trochanteribusque ad unum 

 multo longioribus, tibiis posticis 5 spinosis. 



I. Laberia palliata Stäl. 



Stäl, Hern. Afr., IV, pag. 234, i (1866). 



Dilute sordide flavo-virescens; tegminibus alisque sordide hyalinis, venis flavo- 

 virescentibus; alis ad aream analem macula parva fusca posteriore notatis. 



§. L. i3, exp. teg. circa 85 mm. 



Vertex aeque longus ac latus, marginibus lateralibus pone medium parallelis, 

 ante medium subito convergentibus. Frons duplo et dimidio longior quam niedio latior, 

 sursum leviter angustata, infra medium paullo ampliata, carina distincta percurrente 

 instructa. Tegmina a basi ad medium sensum rotundato-ampliata, marginibus dein 

 parallelis, densissime irregulariter reticulata, membrana costae lata, a medio basin et 

 apicem versus sensim rotundato-angustata, venis oblique transversis, inter se ana- 

 stomosantibus instructa, costa recta. Pars apicalis tegminum mutilata in exemplo 

 descripto. 



Insula Mauritii (Mus. Holm). 



Im Nachstehenden folgen in alphabetischer Reihenfolge die Originalbeschreibungen 

 jener Ricaniidenarten, welche nicht gedeutet und daher auch nicht eingereiht werden 

 konnten, sowie Arten, welche als Ricaniiden beschrieben worden sind, welche jedoch in 

 andere Homopteren-Gruppen gehören. 



cribrata Walk. 



Ricania cribrata Walk., Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., X, pag. 162, 2o3, Taf. III, Fig. i3 (1870). 



9. Testacea, fronte tricarinata, facie non carinata, prothorace tricarinato antice 

 viridescente, mesothorace quinquecarinato, alis subcinereo-hyalinis, alis anticis venis 

 transversis plurimis fusco nebulosis, venis marginalibus non furcatis, lituris subcostalibus 

 punctoque subapicali fuscis, alis posticis venis marginalibus duabus furcatis. 



5. Testaceous. Vertex extremely short; front very much broader than long, with 

 slightly prominent borders, and with three slight abbreviated keels, of which the keel 

 on each side is curved, and is very remote from the middle one; face not keeled. Pro- 

 thorax short, slightly arched; pale green in front, with three keels. Mesothorax with 

 five keels, the inner pair diverging from the middle one hindward, where they are con- 

 nected with the outer pair. Wings vitreous, slightly cinereous. Fore wings with several 

 irregulär and, in some cases, incomplete lines of transverse veins, which are clouded 

 with brown; one line in the disk more regulär than theothers, and much curved in ward; 



