340 Dr. L. Melichar. 



obliqua Walk. 



Pocha^ia obliqua Walk., List of Hom., II, pag. 429, 9 (1851). 

 Ricania » Stäl, Öfv. Vet. Akad. Förh., pag. 591 (1862). 



y> » Atkin., Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, LV, pag. 59, 83 (1886). 



5. Nigra; frons ferruginea, carinata; prothorax carinatus; mesothorax quinquecari- 

 natus; pedes ferruginei; alae anticae magnae, fuscae, basi ferrugineae, fulvo bifasciatae 

 et unimaculatae; alae posticae subfulvae. 



9. Body black; head very short, as broad as the ehest; crown very short, bordered 

 by a rim, slightly arched, shorter in the middle than on each side; front dark ferrugi- 

 nous, rounded on each side, narrower towards the epistoma, bordered by a rim, slightly 

 concave where it joins the epistoma, with a slight middle ridge, its breadth rather less 

 than twice its length; epistoma triangulär, not ridged; fore-chest arched, with a middle 

 ridge, more than twice the length of the crown; middle-chest with five ridges, the inner 

 pair diverging from the fore border and united near the bind border to the outer pair 

 which are short; abdomen obconical, a little longer than the ehest; legs ferruginous; 

 fore wings ample, nearly triangulär, brown, ferruginous towards the base with the ex- 

 ception of the fore border, adorned with tw^o slightly tawny bands, the outer one of 

 irregulär breadth, the inner one shorter and broader, between them on the foreborder 

 is a slightly tawny nearly triangulär spot; veins varying according to the colour of the 

 wing; longitudinal veins very nunierous; cross-veins few; fore border very slightly 

 convex, along it a row of parallel cross-veins which are more oblique where the longi- 

 tudinal vein appears conforted; bind wings very slightly tinged with tawny, brown 

 along the fore borders, 



Length of the body 3 — 3^2 lines, of the wings 9 — 10 lines. 



Patria ignota. 



Nach Kirby's Mittheilung der episcopiis Walk. {== simulans Walk.) ähnlich, 

 aber kleiner und fehlt der grosse schwarze Punkt im Apicalwinkel vollständig. 



oceanica Montr. 



Ricania oceanica Montr ouz, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, X, pag. 244 (1865). 



D'un brun ferrugineux en dessus, pale en dessous. Elytres transparentes, avec le 

 cote exterieur borde de brun opaque entre les 2." et 3^ nervures, puis d'une tache plus 

 foncee et bordee de brun au contour. Le cote Interieur tache de brun ä l'angle poste- 

 rieur. Alles transparentes. 



Long, avec les elytres 12 mm. 



Kanala. 



Dürfte in die Gattung Sassiila oder Varcia gehören. 



plagiatiis Walk. 



Flatoides plagiatiis Walk,, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., X, pag. 142, i63 (1870). 



Gehört nach der Beschreibung »alis anticis nigricante biguttatis fusco variis rufo 

 tuberculatis« jedenfalls zu den Flatiden. 



poecilopteroides Spin. 



Ricania poecilopteroidcs Spin., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., VIll, pag. 398, 4, Taf. 6, Fig. 6 (1839). 



Ist nach der Beschreibung und Abbildung eine Flatide, da der konisch vorge- 

 streckte Kopf (^tcte proeminente au-delä des yeux, proeminence interoculaire, dirigee 



