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carination ; mesonotum tricarinate, the central carination straight, the lateral ones 

 oblique, united before anterior margin and commencing a little before middle of lateral 

 margin ; tegmina with the costal membrane moderately broad, the transverse veins 

 prominent and well separated, two transverse series of small veins on apical area which 

 form two very fine transverse subapical lines ; clypeus centrally carinate. 



Long., excl. tegm., $ , 9 mm. Exp. tegm. 27 mm, 



Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft. 



62. RiCANiA suBGiiAUCA, sp. n. (PI. XXXIV. figs. 4, 4 ffl.) 



Vertex, face, clypeus, pronotum, rostrum, legs and abdomen beneath, brownish 

 ochraceous ; mesonotum and abdomen above black, obscurely bluishly tomentose, 

 abdominal segmental margins above and beneath pale ochraceous ; tegmina brownish, 

 bluishly tomentose but less so at apical marginal areas, a spot on disk of basal area, 

 and an elongate spot at apex of clavus, ochraceous ; wings blackish with the venation 

 dark indigo-blue ; vertex broad, centrally carinate, the lateral margins slightly concave ; 

 pronotum obscurely tricarinate ; mesonotum tricarinate, the central carination 

 straight and percurrent, the lateral ones meeting a little before anterior margin, and 

 again outwardly connected with the anterior margin ; face tricarinate, the central 

 carination straight, the two other carinations a little curved and submarginal ; clypeus 

 centrally carinate. 



Long., excl. tegm., 7^ mm. Exp. tegm. 22 mm. 



Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft. 



63. RiCANIA NIGRA. 



Ricania nigra Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. x. p. 150 (1870). 

 Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft. 



Originally described from Morty, and since received from Ternate and from German 

 New Guinea [Cotton and Webster). 



Genus Eueicania. 

 Euricania Melich. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xiii. p. 258 (1898). 

 This genus is found in the East Palsearctic, Oriental, Malayan, and Australasian 



64, EUEICANIA STELLATA, sp. n. (PL XXXIV. figs. 5, 5 a.) 



Body black; abdomen, clypeus, rostrum, tibiae, and tarsi brownish ochraceous, 

 abdominal segmental margins pale ochraceous ; tegmina glossy, shining black ; with a 

 central cretaceous spot and an elongate greyish spot on costal membrane above the 



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