324 Mr. W. L. Distant on Ilomoptera. 



a much smaller one near its outer apex; base of clavus, part 

 of basal cell, and extreme base of costal membrane more or 

 less ochraceous ; wings pale fuscous, the outer and inner 

 margins darker fuscous and the basal area whitish ; face 

 obscurely centrally and sublaterally carinate; pronotura 

 centrally longitudinally carinate ; mesonotum tricarinate, the 

 central carination straight and continuous, the lateral cari- 

 nations angularly anteriorly narrowed inwardly and near 

 their middle connected by a straight carinate line with the 

 anterior margin. 



Var. — Head and pronotum paler and more greyish ; ground- 

 colour of tegmina greyish brown, not black. 



Long., excl. tegm., 7 mm. ; exp. tegm. 21 to 22 mm. 



Hob. Queensland {F. P. Dodd, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to R. episcopus, Walk., from China and Japan. 



Ricania ruhrifascia, sp. n. 

 ruhrifascia, Walk. MS. 



Vertex, face, pronotum, and mesonotum black, more or 

 less greyishly tomentose ; anterior area of pronotum dull 

 castaneous ; abdomen above black, its base pale ochraceous ; 

 legs pale brownish, the femora darker ; tegmina castaneous, 

 greyishly tomentose, with two prominent straightly transverse 

 castaneous fasciae which are not greyishly tomentose, the 

 first near base, the second a little beyond middle, before apical 

 margin a broken maculate fascia of the same colour, two 

 oblique greyish-white spots on costal membrane, the first 

 near middle, the second near apex, another greyish- white spot a 

 little below middle of apical margin; wings fuscous brown, 

 two small contiguous greyish-white spots near apex of costal 

 margin; face with the carinations snbobsolete, the central 

 most distinct but neither quite reaching base nor apex ; 

 carinations to the mesonotum distinctly prominent ; tegmina 

 somewhat short and broad, the apical about as long as inner 

 margin. 



Long., excl. tegm., 6^ mm.; exp. tegm. 18 mm. 



Hab. Ceram (Wallace, Brit. Mus.). 



I can find no trace of a description by Walker of this 

 beautiful species. 



Ricania protea, sp. n. 



Vertex piceous brown or black ; pronotum and mesonotum 

 dull black, the carinations more or less piceous brown ; 

 abdomen above black, somewhat shining, narrowly greyish at 



