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APPENDIX. — FULGOEID.l-:. 



longitudinal ridges ; pronotum centrally ridged ; mesoDotum tri- 

 carinate, the outer cariuations anteriorly bifurcate ; face centrally 



Fig. SI. — Jilcania obligna. 



carinate, a very short anterior longitudinal carinatiou on each side 

 before eyes. 



Length excl. tegm. 6-G| ; exp. tegni. 21-22 millim. 



Hab. [Nepal. 



Walker's type in the British Museum was unlocalized. 



3278. Ricania densa, Walk. Joum. Linn. Soc, Zool. \, p. 151 (1870); 



Melich. Ann. Hofmus. JFien, xiii, p. 335 (1898). 



Vertex, pronotum, and mesonotum deep shining black ; abdomen 

 above piceous brown ; face piceous or black, the lateral margins 

 paler ; sternum black or piceous, legs ochraceous ; abdomen 

 beneath piceous brown ; tegmina more or less glossy black with 

 a somewhat distinct fascia near middle ; wings fuliginous,, the 

 veins darker ; vertex short ; face much broader than long, tri- 

 carinate, the lateral carinations abbreviated posteriorly * ; pro- 

 notum centrally carinate ; mesonotum tricarinate, the lateral 

 carinations forked anteriorly and united to the apex of the central 

 carination ; wings with one transverse vein ; apical angles of 

 tegmina rounded. 



Length excl. tegm. 4; exp. tegm. J'S^ millim. 



Rab. Upper Burma; Tatkon (T. Balnhrigge Fktclier). — Plores 

 ( Wallace). 



Allied to B.fumosa, Walk, (vol. iii, p. 382). 



On sugar-cane. 



3279. Ricania tisiplione, sp. n. 



Vertex, pronotum, and mesonotum black ; abdomen piceous 

 brown, subapically and broadly annulated with black ; face black 

 or piceous brown, the lateral margins paler ; clypeus piceous 

 brown, its apex more or less ochraceous ; abdomen beneath a little 

 paler than above ; sternum suffused with jjiceous ; legs ochraceous ; 

 tegmina piceous, finely mottled with dark ochraceous ; the costal 

 and apical areas more black, the first with its extreme margin 



* Walker wrote '• t'ace piceous, not keeled," which is iucorrect. 



