422 LIST OF HO.MOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



the cross-veins, black along the fore border ; veins ferruginous; cross- 

 veins ramified in the disk ; longitudinal veins and cross-veins regular 

 and very numerous towards the tips ; fore border convex, along it a 

 row of oblique very short nearly parallel cross-veins: hind-wings 

 pale gray, brown towards the tips; veins black; a few very short 

 cross-veins towards the lip of the fore border. Length of the body 

 3 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



Genus 4. RICANIA. 



Bicania, Germ. Mag. Ent. iii. 221. 

 Flata, Fabr., Germar, Boisduval. 

 Cicada, Fabr., Donovan. 

 Cixius, Gverin (ad partem). 



1. RiCANIA RETICULATA. 



Ricania reticulata, Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 1, 161, 1. Spin. Ann. 



Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. 403, 8. Blanch. Hist. Nat. Ins. iii. 173, 1. 



Hem. pi. 13, f. 4. Aymjot et Serv. Hist. Nat. Hem. 529, 1. 

 Flata reticulata, Fabr. Sijst. Rhyn. 47, 12. StoU, Cic. 29, pi. 4, f. 



19. Germ. Thon, Arch. ii. 2, 49, 40. 



a. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



b. ? 



2, Ricania planipennis. 



Ricania planipennis. Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. 396, 2. 

 Africa. 



3. Ricania hyalinata. 



Ricania hyalinata, Guer. Voy. Belanger, Zool. 466. 



Cicada hyalinata, Donovan. 



Ricania Donovanii, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. 397, 3, 



Offak. 



4. Ricania pcecilopteeoides. 



Ricania pcecilopteroides, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. 398,4, pi. 6, 



f.6. 

 Brazil. 



