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brown, with a few transverse veins and with two forked marginal 

 veins. Length of the body 4 lines, of the wings 12 lines. 

 Hab. Waigiou. 



This species is more nearly allied to B. limitaris {Flaloides, Cat, 

 Horn. V. 99) ; but the front is dark, the disk of the fore wiugs 

 is wholly dark, the costa is more rounded towards the base, and 

 the white costal spot is much smaller. 



169. RiCANiA RUFiFRONS. Mas. Nigra, verticis thoracisque lateri- 

 bus, fronte nisi apud apicem facieque rufis, mesothorace tricarinato, 

 abdominis segmentis ventralibus albido marginatis, pedibus fulvis, 

 alis anticis nigricanti-fuscis albo trimaculatis chalybeo bifasciatis, 

 venis transversis plurimis, alis posticis fuscis subhyalinis, 



Male. Black. Head with slightly prominent borders, vertex short, 

 red on each side; front red, much broader than long, rounded on 

 each side, black near the face, which is red. Thorax red on each 

 side. Prothorax arched, hiding part of the vertex. Mesothorax 

 long, with three keels ; the keel on each side oblique, much shorter 

 than the middle keel, with which it is connected on the fore border. 

 Abdominal segments beneath with whitish hind borders. Legs 

 tawny. Fore w ings blackish brown, with three white spots ; first and 

 second spots costal ; first at a little beyond the middle ; second near 

 . the tip, elongated, oblique, much notched in the middle ; third on the 

 exterior border ; two chalybeous black bands ; veins very numerous ; 

 transverse veins forming four transverse lines, of which the fourth is 

 submarginal and more regular than the others ; costal transverse veins 

 very numerous, mostly parallel ; marginal veins not forked. Hind 

 wings dark brown, slightly hyaline. Length of the body 4 lines, of 

 the wings 13 lines. 



Hab. Waigiou. 



The red front and the single white spot on the exterior border 

 of the fore wings distinguish it from B. tenebrosa (Flafoides, Cat. 

 Hom. ii. 406). 



1/0. RiCANiA sPECULARis. Mfls. Nigra, frontc plana unicarinata fcr- 

 rugineo marginata, facie unicarinata; mesothorace tricarinato, pe- 

 dibus testaceis femoribus piceis, alis anticis macula magna costali, 

 macula media maculisque tribus marginalibus pellucidis, margine 

 exteriore subrecto, alis posticis nigricantibus. 



Male. Black. Vertex extremely short ; front flat, very much broader 

 than long, much decreasing in breadth towards the base, with very 

 minute longitudinal striae, with a middle keel, and with slightly ele- 

 vated ferruginous sides ; face elongate triangular, with a middle 

 keel. Prothorax arched, more than four times as broad as long. 

 Mesothorax with three keels, of which two (Hverge from the middle. 



