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on the middle line above, and over this is a hirge yellow spot, the 

 transverse carinate lines and grooves distinct, rostrum black, reaching 

 to the middle coxie. Legs greenish, with the base and apex of femora 

 and some lines along their surface, knees, tips, and sometimes the mid- 

 dle of tibi*, base and tip of tarsi, besides the nails, and the three 

 spines of anterior femora, black, the inner spine much longer than the 

 others. Pronotum bordered behind and on the sides with greenish 

 yellow, mesonotum witli a deltoid yellow spot each side of disk, con- 

 necting with a slender line which continues back to Ihe borders of the 

 cross, and from thence on the posterior and lateral carinate borders- 

 AViiig-covers with large and often irregular meshes, the ai)ical series 

 beginning witL a moderately short triangular one, and followed by 

 longer curved ones to the inner bend of the margin, the costal vein 

 greenish yellow, veins dark brown, yellow basally, and including the 

 membranes, wings with brown veins, the inner area striped and margined 

 with smoke brown, the basal membrane reddish, a streak (margined with 

 fuliginous) running out from it, pale plumbeous. The inner ahdet is 

 large, ovate, bounded by a coarse vein, and traversed by numerous long 

 veins. Abdomen long and narrow, with middle of venter striped with 

 a series of black spots. 



Length to tip of abdomen : Male, 20 mm. ; feuuile, 22 mm. Spread of 

 wing-covers, o.j-.jT nmi. 



Type.—^o. 3105, TJ.S.N.M. 



^ine specimens of this interesting form are in the collection. The 

 female has a much longer and more slender spur at apex of the tergum 

 than in the male. In this ;>pecies the two ulnar veins are separated 

 at their origin on the angle of the basal areole, and the inner alulet 

 {.schh(ssfeld) of the wing is broadly rounded and traversed by eight or 

 more very slender veins, forming long areoles. 



Family FULGORID.E. 



SiabfaiTxiljr RICA^^STIIDA. 

 RICANIA EPISCOPALIS, Stal. 



Elcania epiHvopaliii, Stal, Ofv. K. Ver.-Akad. Forb., 1865. p. 162, No. 5. 

 Fifteen specimens of this showy species are in the collection. 



RICANIA ALBOMACULATA, new species. 



Similar to Rieania fuseata, Fabricius, but the wing covers shorter and 

 more bluntly rounded at apex, paler smoke Itrown, with a subtriangu- 

 lar, ragged white spot near the middle of the costal margin. Vertex 

 short, the anterior margin acutely carinate, especially at the angle next 

 the eye; front rusty brown, a little wider than high, flat, carinate on 

 the middle line, with the lower i)art of lateral margin curved and the 

 inferior margin concave, each side near superior margin is an obsolete 



