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and reacliiiig as far as the hinder trochanters ; antennae black. 

 Pronotum testaceous, entirely so behind ; a dumb-bell shaped black 

 mark in front of this, extending to the front edge, and the central 

 sutures blackish ; sides not greatly- expanded, with irregular black 

 markings, and dotted with grey hair ; mesonotum black, with two 

 short, thick, tawny stripes on each side, not reaching the front 

 edge, and a spear-headed, tawny mark, filled with black in the 

 middle, directed forwards ; scutellum with the hinder half and 

 lateral ridges testaceous. Abdomen black, sutures narrowly edged 

 with testaceous, especiallj' on the sides ; segment 7 with two 

 testaceous dots in the middle, and a larger spot on each side. 

 Sternum mostly black, clothed with greyish hair ; legs testaceous ; 

 coxae, four fi'ont femora, and tarsi streaked with black above ; 

 opercula testaceous, extending nearly to the end of the first 

 segment of the abdomen. Abdomen beneath testaceous ; basal 

 segTuent entirely black, the following segments triangularly 

 blackish on each side at the base, the last two lateral lobes spotted 

 with black. Tegulae and wings hyaline, with brown nervures ; 

 costal nervures and inner marginal nervure testaceous. 



"Allied to 0. hufo and 0. polita^ Walk., but drffierently marked. 



" An extremely hairy pupa, marked 'Dug up, earth, October 8,' 

 accompanied the specimen, besides an empty pupa -skin, both 

 probably belonging to the same species." 



Three males, one from the west coast, October, 1897, and another 

 from riying Fish Cove, August, 1897. Also three pupaa, one 

 darker than the others, found in April, 1898. 



Besides these, there is a female specimen from the east coast, 

 October, 1897. It differs little from the male, except in the paler 

 colour of the light markings. 



Family EICANIIDJE. 



2. Ricania flavifrontalis, sp.n. (PI. XY, Fig. 5.) 



Long. Corp. 3-25 mm. ; exp. al. 11-13 mm. 



Head brown above ; pronotum blackish on the back ; abdomen 

 blackish in the middle, otherwise rufo-testaceous ; face and under- 

 surface dull yellow, clypeus slightly broader than long, nearly 

 square, but with the lower angles slightly rounded off ; a slight 

 vertical carina. Tegmina brown, costa with a white or yellowish- 

 white basal stripe, sometimes extending to two-fifths of the length 

 of the tegmen. Beyond this the costa is marked with pale spots 

 as far as a large white band on the costa at about two-thirds of 

 its length ; this band is subinterrupted below, and then turns 

 obliquely outwards. This lower part extends for about half the 

 length of the upper, and is much narrower, and rather j)ointed 

 at the end. "Within this is a broad white band, outwardly con- 

 cave on its upper portion, and extending to the inner margin. 



