Schmidt, Zur Kenntnis der Kicaniinae. 155 



and apparently advancing over the crown : middle ehest ferru- 

 ginous with a tawny middle stripe and two black oblique 

 and slightly undulating ridges : abdonien obconical, longer than 

 the ehest , with a blaek stripe above : legs tawny , slender, 

 striped with black : wings nearly colourless ; fore wings ample, 

 pale brown at the tips , with two brown spots near the tips 

 towards the bind border , one on the fore border near the tip, 

 and two by the brand whieh is tawny ; veins black , forming 

 many areolets of various forms in the disk, forked at the tips ; 

 alojig the fore border a row of parallel eross-veins whieh are 

 raost numerous and niost oblique towards the tips ; hindwings 

 edged with brown. 



Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 



a, b. Ceylon. Pesented by Dr. J. Hooker." 



4. Varcia Gveeni Kirby. 



Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., XXIV, p. 158, Taf. V, Fig. 15 

 (1894). Melichar, Monogr. d. Ricaniiden , Ann. Hofmus. Wien, 

 13, p. 320 (1898). 



Originalbeschreibung : 



„Long. corp. 9 millim. ; exp. tegm. 28 millim. 



Head and thorax mostly testaceous above , the latter with 

 two black carinae, diverging behind, the space between these and 

 the central testaceous stripe brown ; a black spot on each side 

 in front ; abdomen yellow at the sides (greenish at the base) and 

 brown in the middle ; marginal carinae and last two segments 

 black ; a white spot at the base of the terminal segment. Face 

 testaceous , with the frontal and lateral carinae very narrowly 

 black ; three testaceous carinae, diverging and disappearing at a 

 level with the lower boundary of the eyes , whieh are black in 

 the middle, bordered with yellowish ; rostrum black at the base 

 and extremity. ünder surface of body pale greenish ; eoxae 

 spotted and bind femora lined beneath with black ; tarsi and 

 spines of bind tibiae blackish; abdomen brownish in the middle, 

 and with the sides of the terminal segments blaek. Tegmina 

 and wings hyaline, with brown nervures ; hind margins bordered 

 with smoky brown; tegmina with a large oblong stigma , en- 

 closing a square vitreous spot on the subeostae space; there is 

 also a brown spot at the tip , and another within it ; another, 

 confluent with the brown border, Stands rather below the middle 

 of the hind margin; and the inner margin is broadly brown, 

 from the point where it forms a rouiided projection near the 

 base to the hinder angle ; the nervures nearest the inner margin 



