RICANOPTERA. 



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forked at a .short distance from base, an inwardly curved line 

 crossing disk before middle and formed by transverse veins, two 

 transverse lines on apical areas also formed by transverse veins, 

 numerous transverse veins in clavus ; posterior tibiae with two 

 spines. 



1970. Ricanoptera inculta, Melich. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xiii, p. '2M, 

 t. xiii, f. 1 (1898). 



" Body reddish or rusty-brown, surface of thorax sometimes 

 yellowish-brown ; face nan-owed towaixls clypeus, carinations very 

 indistinct ; pronotum centrally carinnte ; mesonotum with three 

 longitudinal carinations bifurcate anteriorly, the inner bifurcation 

 not connected with the inner carination ; tegmina and wings 

 liyaline, transparent, slightly discoloured with vinous-yellow and 

 with brown speckles, longitudinal veins placed wide apart, the 

 transverse veins between them on disk few and irregularly placed, 

 forming two ti'ansverse lines before apical margin, the outer one 

 parallel to margin, the inner one waved, on disk an angulated line 

 formed of transverse veins with the apex turned towards base ; 

 abdomen yellow, brownish above ; legs pale yellow ; tips of the 

 spines black." (Melichar.) 



Length excl. tegm. 8 to 9 ; exp. tegm. 24 to 28 millim. 



Hab. Assam ; Margherita (Doherty). (Ireat Nicobar {fide 

 Melicliar). 



1971. Eicanoptera mellerborgi, StSl (Ricauia), Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 



1854, p. 247; Atkins. J. A. S. Ben,/. Iv, p. 52 (1886); Melich. 



Ann. Hofmm. Wien, xiii, p. 255, t. x, f. 15 (1898). 

 Flata fenestrata, Fabr. Si/st. Rhijncj. p. 51 (1803) ; Atkins. (Ricania) 



J. A. S. Beng. Iv, p. 51 (1886). 

 Flatoides discalis. Walk. J. Linn. Soc, Zool. i, p. 89 (1857). 

 Ricauia fabricii, Stal, Hem. Fabr. ii, p. 104 (1869). 



Body and legs testaceous-brown, darker above than beneath ; 



tegmina hyaline, the whole basal and marginal areas fuscous- 

 brown, extreme edges of 

 costal and apical margins 

 with minute flavescent 

 spots, two hyaline spots 

 on costal margin beyond 

 middle, and usually three, 

 sometimes only two, on 

 apical margin ; wings hya- 

 line, the venation piceous- 

 brown and the outer 

 margins broadly fuscous. 

 (This is the form described 



by Walker as discalis and which is here figured.) 



Tegmina hyaline, minute flavescent marginal spots as in form 



Fig. 196. — Itieanoptera meUerhorc/i. 



