^^S'2 fllgorid.t:. 



1968. Ricania spoliata, Mdicli. Ann. Ilofntus. ll'ieu, 1898, p. :.'o4, 



t. X, f. iM ; id. (llicania (Recanula)) Hon}. Faun. Veylon, p. 84 

 (1903). 



" Body black, face and clypeus yellowisli-brown, frontal keel 

 distinct, lateral keels semicircular ; pronotuin and niesonotum 

 black, the latter with the usual carinations : tegmina brown with 

 two yellowish transverse fascioe, between which is a black yellowish- 

 margined spot, the first fascia before middle has a sharp zigzag 

 border and is sprinkled with ci'etaceous scales, which, moreover, 

 form a transverse line, towards the outer side this fascia is 

 evanescent, the second fascia beyond middle consists of two 

 large irregular spots, a \A"hite oblique streak at end of radial area, 

 angular yellow spots on costal margin at end of transverse veins, 

 on apical margin the yellow spots are minute and rounded ; wings 

 very pale fuliginous, darker at posterior margin ; legs yellowish- 

 brown." {Melicliar.) 



" Length excl. tegm. 5 ; exp. tegm. 18 millim." 



Hah. Ceylon {fide Meliclmr). 



1969. Eicania fumosa, IValh. (Flatoides) Li>^t Horn, n, p. 414 (1851) ; 



Stal (Kicania), Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1862, p. 491 ; Atkins. 

 J. A. S. Bcng. lv,"p. 55 (1886); Melich. Ann. Hofmns. Wien, 

 xiii, p. 230 (1898). 

 Ricania proxima, Melich. Ann. Hofmns. Trie?/, xiii, p. 226. t. xi, 

 f. 22 (1898). 



Body ferruginous ; mesonotum piceous ; legs ])ale testaceous : 

 tegmina uniformh^ piceous-brown, the venation a little darker and 

 prominent ; wings a little paler than tegmina ; tegmina short and 

 broad, their greatest breadth only a little shorter than their length, 

 costal margin distinctly sinuate beyond middle, apex broadly 

 rounded ; face tricai'inate, a central and two sublateral carinations 

 which do not extend beyond middle. 



Length excl. tegm. 34 ; exp. tegm. \2^ millim. 



Bab. Assam ; Margherita {Atlcinson Coll., Brit. Mus.). — .Siam. 

 South Sumatra {Coll. Dist.). Java, Celebes. 



This small species was only known to Walker by an unlocalized 

 type in the British Museum. Atkinson appears to have correctly 

 identified an Assamese specimen as representing it. 



Genus RICANOPTERA. 



Ricanoptera, Melich. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xiii, p. 253 (1898). 



Type, R. inculta, Melich. 



Distribution. Ethiopian, Oriental, Malayan, and Australasian 

 Regions. 



Head, pronotum, and mesonotum generally as in the two 

 preceding genera; tegmina more elliptical, apical longer than 

 the inner margin, first and second longitudinal veins emitted 

 from a common stalk at upper end of basal cell, third strongly 



