37S rt'LGortiu.E. 



irregular whitisli apical margin, uot reaching apex and broken at 

 about one-third from outer angle of posterior margin ; wings 

 fuliginous with the venation darker ; the tegmina are convexly 

 arched from base to beyond middle, and thpu slightly sinuate 

 before apex ; face indescribable, owing to mutilated head in type- 

 specimen. 



Length excl. tegm. 7?; exp. tegui. 26 millim. 



Hah. Mergui {CoU. Dist.). 



B. Tegmina ivWi pale transverse fascia', and often palehj 

 maculate. 



19(>0. Ricania simulans. ]]'alk. (Pochazia) Lid Horn, ii, p. 431 

 (18ol); >Stdl (Kieania), Ofr. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 18G2, p. 491: 

 Atldris. J. A. 8. Benq. Iv, p. ."56 (1886); Melicli. (excl. syii.) 

 Ann. Hofnms. Wien', xin,^. 224, t. ix, f. 21 (1898). 



Head, pronotiim, abdomen, and body beneath pale testaceous- 

 bro\A-n ; legs ochraceous ; margins of vertex of head, lateral 

 margins of face, clypeus, posterior margin of mesonotum, and 

 base of abdomen and anal appendage ochraceous ; tegmina pale 



Fig. 195. — Uicania Mmulans. 



dull castaneous ; base of costal margin, a basal patch, and greater 

 part of claval area ochraceous ; a triangular costal spot beyond 

 middle, a transverse discal fascia before middle, and a broken 

 irregular transverse fascia on apical area very pale flavescent, the 

 veins on apical area prominent and the interspaces between them 

 a little paler ; wings pale fuliginous, apical areas broadly a little 

 darker. 



Length excl. tegm. 4| ; exp. tegm. 13| milliin. 



Hah. "North In^ia'^ {Warwicl, Brit.~Mus.\ 



Dr. Melichar has included in the synonymy of this species 

 Flatoides episcopus, Walk. (China and Japan), and Ricania episco- 

 pcdis, Stal (China and Formosa), a course I cannot follow. 



1961. Eicania bicolorata, sp. n. 



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

 piceous-black ; abdomen and legs testaceous ; tegmina piceous- 

 brown with a very broad transverse fascia, which is suddenly 

 narrowed on costal margin, convex inwardly, and angulated 



