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FULGORID.^. 



A. Teijmina prominently palely maculate. 



1956. Ricania feuestvata, J^air. (Cercopis) Syst. Ent. \t. Q>^S (1775); 



id. Hem. Fahr. ii, p. 105 (1869) ; Melich. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, 



xiii, p. 222, t. ix, f. 13 (1898); id. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 84 



(1903). 

 Cicada hvalina, Fabr. Syst. Ent. App. p. 832 (1775) ; id. (Flata) 



Syst. Myng. p. 51 (1803) ; Stdl (Eicauia), Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 



18(32, p. 489 : Atkins. (Ricania) J. A. S. Beny. Iv, p. 51 (1886). 

 Flatoides orientis, IVulk. List Horn, ii, p. 417 (1851). 

 Stoll, Ciy. fig. 102. 



Head (including face), pronotum, mesouotum, and sternum 

 piceous-black ; abdomen testaceous ; coxae, legs, and a transverse 

 linear spot at apex of face pale testaceous ; tegmina piceous-brown 

 or piceous-black, with a large upper central discal spot united to 

 the costal margin by a smaller spot (these spots sometimes distinctly 



Fig. 104. — Blcaiiia fcncdratu. 



separated) and two large elongate spots on apical margin very pale 

 flavescent or greyish-white ; wings a little paler than tegmina, 

 with a pale subcostal central streak : face with a distinct almost 

 percurrent central carination. 



Length excl. tegm. 7 ; exp. tegm. 21 millim. 



Hah. Trivandrum (Coll. Dist.). Ceylon; Kandy, Peradeniya 

 (Green). Frequents Aristolochia (E. E. Green). 



The darkest specimens I have seen are from Ceylon. 



1957. Ricania marginalis, Walk. (Flatoides) List Ham. ii. p. 409 

 (1851). 

 Eicania speculum, MelicJi. (part.) Ann. Hofmns. Wien, xiii, p. 223 



(1898). 



Head (including face), pronotum, mesouotum, and sternum 

 piceous-black ; abdomen testaceous ; coxae, legs, and usually a 

 transverse spot at apex of face pale testaceous ; tegmina piceous- 

 black, with a small central upper discal spot, a large siibtriangular 

 spot on costal margin beyond middle, two large elongate spots on 

 apical margin (the lowermost marked with piceous), between these 

 spots about three minute marginal spots, and a similar one near 



