Monographie der Ricaniiden (Homoptera). ^45 



Length of the body 5 lines, of the wings 25 lines. 



Morty. 



Ist nach Kirby's Mittheilung insbesondere dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der 

 Apicalrand der Flügeldecken in der Mitte mit einer stumpfen abgerundeten Zacke, ähn- 

 lich wie bei Epitemna, versehen ist, was Walker in seiner Beschreibung nicht erwähnt. 



subrufescens Walk. 



Flatoides subrufescens Walk., Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., X, pag. 141, 161 (1870). 



Gehört mit Rücksicht auf die mit Tuberkeln versehenen Flügeldecken (alis anticis 

 tuberculatis) zu den Flatiden. 



trinotata Walk. 



Ricaniä trinotata Walk., Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., X, pag. 152, 185 (1870). 



9. Testacea, fronte tricarinata nigro quadristrigata, facie unicarinata nigro bivit- 

 tata, mesothorace quinquecarinato, alis lurido-hyalinis venis marginalibus furcatis, alis 

 anticis fascia postmedia e maculis tribus nigricantibus, alis posticis stigmate nigro. 



$. Testaceous, a läppet on each side above the base of the wing. Vertex very 

 Short, slightly dilated on each side; front nearly twice as broad as long, rounded on 

 each side towards the face, where it is excavated, with sHghtly elevated sides, with two 

 black streaks on each side, and with three keels; of these the keel on each side is very 

 remote from the middle one; face rather broad, with two black stripes and with one 

 keel. Prothorax arched, about six times as broad as long. Mesothorax with five keels; 

 the inner pair united with the middle one on the fore border, and diverging from it 

 hindward; the outer pair short. Wings lurid, vitreous. Fore wings rounded at the tips; 

 three blackish spots forming an incomplete postmedial band; a blackish costal stripe 

 extending from the base to the band; a blackish marginal band; transverse veins irregulär, 

 very numerous; marginal veins mostly forked. Hind wings with one irregulär line of 

 transverse veins, with forked marginal veins and with a black costal Stigma. 



Length of the body 4 lines, of the wings 12 lines. 



New Guinea. 



Mit bicincta Walk, verwandt, mit ziemlich engem Adernetz (Kirby). 



triincatus Walk. 



Flatoides truncatus Walk., List of Hom., II, pag. 419, 26 (1851). 



Fulvus; frons carinatus; mesothorax ferrugineus; abdomen luteum; pedes fulvi, 

 alae anticae subfulvae, apice truncatae; alae posticae sublimpidae, apice fuscae. 



Body tawny, darker here and there; head a tittle narrower than the ehest; crown 

 conical, shghtly concave; front much longer than broad, widening from the crown to the 

 epistoma where it is rounded, surrounded by a rim, and having a slight middle ridge; 

 epistoma lanceolate; eyes striped; fore-chest convex in front, slightly concave behmd; 

 its breadth nearly four times its length; middle-chest ferruginous, more than twice the 

 length of the fore-chest; abdomen luteous, obconical, not longer than the ehest; sexual 

 apparatus consisting of two curved appendages whose tips cross each other; the lower 

 one compressed, deep, grooved; the upper one longer and more slender; legs tawny; 

 fore-wings truncate at the tips, pale tawny; veins darker, very numerous towards the 

 tips; a row of very short oblique parallel cross-veins along the fore border; hind wings 

 almost colourless, brown towards the tips; veins brown, tawny at the base. 



