Mr. W. L. Distant on ITomoptcra. 323 



Tltih. New CJuinca. 



Other tyi)(\s of species described by Walker as belonginj^ 

 to the Ricaiiiiiiai cannot bo found at presfMit in the National 

 ('ol lection, but mention must be made of the above, as it i-j 

 included by Melicliar in the genus Pochazia&B a valid species. 

 Dr. Melichar, however, had not seen it and only reproduces 

 AValker'd description. 



Genus RiCAMA. 

 liicania, Germ. Mag. Ent. iii. p. 221 (1818). 

 Type, E./enestrata, Fabr. 



liicania stigma. 



Flatoides stigrna, Walk. List Horn. ii. p. 410 (1851). 

 Ricania subfu^ca, Melich. Mon. liicaniid. p. 230 (1898). 



Hah. Brit. India; Tenasserira ; Nicobar Islands ; Borneo; 

 Celebes ; Japan. 



Eicanla trimaculata. 



Ricania trimaniJata, Gii^r. Voy. Coq., Ins. p. 190(1830) ; Melich. Mon. 



Kicauiid. p. 238, Taf. xi. fig. 19 (1898). 

 Ricania alhcmgnata, StSl, Ufv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 18Go, p. 101. 

 Ricania atomaria, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. x. p. 147 



(1868) ; Melicb. Mon. Ricaniid. p. 240 (1898). 



Hah. New Guinea ; Aru ; Batchian ; Waigiou. 



Ricania caliginosa. 



Ricania calit/inosa, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. x. p 144 



(18«J8); Melich. Mon. Kicaniid. p. 332 (1898). 

 Ricania simplex, Walk. .Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. x. p 144 



(18C8) ; Mehch. Mon. Ricaniid. p. 342 (1898). 



Ilab. Aru ; Waigiou. 



Ricania consanguinea, sp. n. 



Head and pronotum brownish ochraceou? ; mesonotum 

 piceous ; abdomen above piceous, the base and apex more or 

 less ochraceons ; face, clypeus, body beneath, and legs pale 

 ochraceous ; tcgmina black with two oblique white fascix', 

 the innermost extending from a little beneath claval suture 

 to near the lower apex of the radial area, the outermost 

 between the first and the apical margin, broadly inwardly 

 notched above middle, and attenuated near costal margin, on 

 costal membrane above innermost fascia is a white spot with 



