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1932 Ricania flabellum Esaki, Iconographia Insectorum Japonicorum 
1932: [1803]; 1 fig. [Described, illustrated] 9 
1933 Ricania flabellum Kato, Three Colour Illustrated Insects of 
Japan 4: PI. 7, Fig. 3 [Illustrated] 9 
1935 Ricanoides flabellum Zia, Sinensia 6: 539; Fig. 6 [Described, 
catalogued, illustrated] 1, 2 - 3 ' 4 - 6 "Equals Ricania flabellum Xoualh. 
Localities: Cambodia. 2 Java. 3 Burma. 4 Assam. 5 India. 6 Tonkin. 
7 Formosa. 8 Sunda Islands. * Japan. 
Genus Mesoricania Melichar 
Orthotype Mesoricania pulchella 1923 Melichar, Gen. Insect. 182: 135 
Mesoricania 1923 Melichar, Gen. Insect. 182: 135 [gen. n.] :121 
[Key] 
1940 Xeave, Xomenclator Zoologicus 3: 121 [Cat- 
alogued] 
ordinata Melichar 
1898 Ricanoptera ordinata Melichar, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien. 48: 
393 (9) [n. sp.] 1, 2 
1898 Ricanoptera ordinata Melichar, Ann. Xat. Hofmus. Wien 13: 
258; PI. XI, Fig. 5 [n. sp., illustrated] 1, 2 :254 [Key] 1 
1899 Ricanoptera ordinata Haglund, Ofv. Svenska Vet. Akad. Forh. 
56: 69 [Listed] 2 
1916 [Ricanoptera] ordinata Jacobi, Deutsche Ent. Zeit. 1915: 305 
[Xote, listed] 3 
1923 Mesoricania ordinata Melichar, Gen. Insect. 182: 135 [Cat- 
alogued] 2 Equals Ricanoptera [ ordinata Mel.] 
Localities: 1 Africa. 2 Cameroons. 3 Sierra Leone. 
pulchella Melichar 
1898 Ricanoptera pulchella Melichar, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien 
48: 392 (9) [n. sp.] 1, 2 
1898 Ricanoptera pulchella Melichar, Ann. Xat. Hofmus. Wien 13: 
257; PI. XI, Fig. 9 [n. sp., illustrated] 2, 3 :254 [Key] 1 :258 [Com- 
parative note] 
1899 Ricanoptera pulchella Haglund, Ofv. Svenska Vet. Akad. Forh. 
56: 69 [Listed] 2 
1905 Ricanoptera pidchella Schmidt, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 66: 181, 194 
[Listed] 2 
1916 [ Ricanoptera ] pulchella Jacobi, Deutsche Ent. Zeit. 1915: 305 
[Xote] 
1923 Mesoricania pulchella Melichar, Gen. Insect. 182: 135 [Cat- 
alogued] 2, 4 Equals Ricanoptera [pulchella Mel.] 
Localities: 1 Africa . 1 Cameroons . 3 Calabar . 4 Xigeria. 
