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extremely narrowly impressed, so that the margin of the face 

 appears somewhat raised ; face dirty green to brownish to above 

 the protuberance, beneath pale green, both the zones sharply 

 defined ; antennae yellow ish-bi'own ; eyes brown ; tegmina finely 

 wrinkled and punctured, provided with an indistinct pale transverse 

 band situate a little beyond middle, and margined with a reddish 

 line on each side, a rather paler spot with red speckles near base : 

 wiugs smoky brown, traversed by dark veins ; abdomen olive- 

 green ; legs greenish-yellow or dirty brownish-yellow, apices of 

 spines to posterior tibia) rusty-brown."' (Melichcn'.) 



" Length 5 ; breadth of tegm. 2^ millim." 



Ifab. Ceylon ; Peradeniya (fide Melichar). 



I have not seen this species. 



Subfamily X. RICANIINiE. 



Ricaniida, StcV, Hem. Afr. iv, pp. 131 & 219 (1866). 



Eicaniina, Stal, Ofi: Tef.-AJc. Fdrh. 1870, p. 764; Atkins. J. A. S. 



Benff. Iv, p. 49 (1886). 

 Ricaniidas, Melich. Monoqr. Ann. Hofinus. Wien, xiii, p. 197 (1898) : 



■id Horn. Fmm. Ceylon, p. 83 (1903). 



Head broad or very broad, sometimes a little narrower than the 

 pronotum ; lateral margins of clypeus frequently not ridged ; 

 prouotum posteriorly roundly sinuate, either ^\■ithout carinations 

 or with only a central one ; mesonotum very large and long ; 

 tegmina flat, more or less ample, costal area dilated, costal mem- 

 brane transversely veined or reticulated ; posterior tibise spinose, 

 basal joint of posterior tarsi somewhat short. 



Dr. Melichar has monographed the liicaniince, and has thus 

 considerably aided our study of the subfamily ; he, however, had 

 not examined Walker's types, and has surcharged his synonymy 

 with many distinct species described by that writer. Stal in 1SG2 

 examined Walker's tj^pes and published an excellent ci'iticism on 

 them, which was by,, some regarded as extreme; Melichar, how- 

 ever, without the opportunity of seeing those types, has gone 

 farther, and in many cases too far. 



Division BICANIINARIA. 

 Ricanini, Melich. Ann. Ilofmus. Wien, xiii, p. 204 (1898). 



Face broader than long, or as broad as long ; sides of clypeus 

 not ridged. 



Synopsis of Genera. 



A. Longitudinal venation to tegmina somewhat 

 dense, the veins placed close together, 

 a. Apical margin of tegmina longer than inner 



margin Pochazia,ji. 370. 



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