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" 19. RiCANIA HEMEROBII, MaS Ct Fcm. 



Fulra ; frnns tricarinatun, fuaco maculatus ; epistoma carinatum ; 

 mesothorax ferrugineus, fulvo inttatus, niyro bicarinatus ; ab- 

 domen nigro vitiatitm ; pedes fulvi, nigra viltati ; alee mblim- 

 pidcB ; alee anticte latce, apicefuscte, fusco quinquemaculatcB ; 

 alee posticcB fusco marginatce. 



Body tawny : head narrower than the chest ; crown very con- 

 cave on the hind border, hardly convex in front, surrounded by a 

 rim, iis length in the middle about half of that on each side ; front 

 prominent, formino^ a rioht ani^le on each side, rounded and slightly 

 widened towards the epistoma, straight wheie it joins the epistoma, 

 dotted with brown, bordered by a black-edged rim which is deepest 

 towards (he epistoma, having three ridges ; the side pair converging, 

 extending beyond the middle one, and united on the fore border ; its 

 length about twice its breadth ; epistoma lanceolate, with a black 

 border and a black middle ridge : fore-chest long on the middle, 

 very short on each side, very slightly concave on the hind border, 

 conical in front and apparently advancino^ over the crown : middle 

 chest ferruginous with a tawny middle stripe and two black oblique 

 and slightly undulating ridges : abdomen obconical, longer than the 

 chest, with a black stripe above: legs tawny, slender, striped with 

 black : wdngs nearly colourless ; fore-wings ample, pale brown at the 

 tips, with two brown spots near the tips towards the hind border, one 

 on the fore border near the tip, and two by the brand which is tawny ; 

 veins black, forming many aretdels of various forms in the disk, 

 forked at the tips ; along the fore border a row of parallel cross-veins 

 which are most numerous and most oblique towards the tips : hind- 

 wing-s edged with brown. 



Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 



fl, b. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. J. Hooker 



^ Genus 5. POCHAZIA. 



Pochazia, Amyot et Serv. Hist. Nat. Hem. 528, 4 19. 

 Cicada, Fabr. 

 <^Flata, Fabr. 

 ORicania, Guenn^ Spinola. 

 C Poeciloptera, Westwood. 



