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to nenr apex, which is dull ochraceous ; coriuni with a small 

 irregular spot, or sometimes minute spots, with another 

 short straight line, situate near apical margin, ocliraceous ; 

 hcatl beneath and sternum metallic purplish black, area of the 

 odoriferous apertures black, opaque; abdomen ))eneath 

 centrally testaceous, outwardly broadly margined with pale 

 ochraceous, followed by a black submarginal fascia including 

 the stigmata, the extreme lateral margin ochraceous; poste- 

 rior margin of apical segment and the genitalia black ; legs 

 black, bases of femora more or less ochraceous; head very 

 coarsely punctate, with the apex of the central lobe promi- 

 nent : antenna? with the first joint shorter than head, but 

 I'jassing its aj)ex, first and second subequal, third and fourth 

 long and subequal (filth mutilated in typical specimen) ; 

 pronotum thickly, coarsely, reticulately punctate, the anterior 

 lateral margins crenulate, the lateral angles moderately 

 angularly but not spinously produced ; scutellum coarsely 

 ])unctate, more sparingly so on the ochraceous area, the 

 apex nearly inipunctate; corium thickly finely punctate; 

 membrane passing abdominal apex ; rostrum reaching the 

 fourth abdominal segment, second and third joints subequal 

 in length ; angles of the apical abdominal segment strongly 

 spinously produced ; connexivum distinctly spinous at the 

 lateral apices of the segments. 



Long., (^ IS mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 9 mm. 



Genus Ricania. 

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

 Type, R. fenestrata, Fabr. 



Ricania lutescens, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and mesonotum pale castaneous ; abdo- 

 men, body leneath, and legs ochraceous; tegmina dull 

 ochraceous, opaque, much mottled with fuscous brown, two 

 narrow transverse macular fascial before apical margin, the 

 inner one much sinuate ; on costal area are two blackish 

 spots before middle, followed by two larger angulate pale 

 ochraceous spots before apex, a small black subapical spot, 

 the claval area distinctly paler ; wings pale fuliginous, sub- 

 hyaline, the veins darker ; pronotum with a central lon^-i- 

 tudinal carination ; mesonotum with a central lono-itudinal 

 carination, on each side of this a roundly oblique lonoitudinal 

 carinate line outwardly connected with the anterior margin 

 by a short almost straight carination ; face obscurely cen- 

 trally and subniarginally carinate. 



