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Family BENDIDiE. 



Wings robust, often broad, alike in colour and markings : forewing acute at 

 the ajDex : hindwing angular. Body moderately stout, palpi ascending, apex generally 

 long and linear ; antennce slender, rarely pubescent. (Guenee.) 



Larva cylindrical, half-looped; with sixteen legs, the first middle pair being 

 imperfect ; two dorsal pointed tubercles on twelfth segment. 



Genus HULODES. 



Ilulodes, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 207 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1334. 

 Bendis (part), Hiibuer, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 269. 



Wings moderately large, broad : forewing triangular, much arched towards the 

 end ; apex acute, exterior margin oblique, slightly scalloped, posterior angle convex ; 

 cell extending to one-third the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end 

 of the cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, third at one-sixth from base of second, and 

 fourth at three-fifths from base of third, fifth from end of the cell and joined by a 

 short spur to third near its base ; discocellular inwardly oblique, deeply concave in 

 the middle, radials from upper end and near lower end ; middle median from angle 

 close to end of the cell, lower at about one-half before the end ; submedian almost 

 angular near the base and with a slender vein extending from below the base to the 

 angle: hindwing short, broad; exterior margin sinuous, slightly angular in the 

 middle ; cell extending to one-third the length ; two subcostals on a short footstalk 

 beyond end of the cell ; discocellular deeply concave, radial from near lower end ; 

 two upper medians from end of the cell, lower about one-third; submedian and 

 internal vein straight. Body stout, thorax densely clothed, abdomen pointed at the 

 tip ; palpi ascending, second joint stout, curved, laxly squamose, reaching level 

 of the eyes, third joint in male very short, conical, in female slender, one-third 

 length of second ; antennae simple, slender ; legs stout, most densely clothed with 

 woolly tufts, base of fore and middle tarsi tufted above, and hind tarsi tufted to 

 tip in male, naked in female, spurs long. 



Ty^ye, H. Caranea. 



HULODES CARANEA (Plate 166, Fig. 3, 3a,(J ? ; 167, Fig. 6, larva). 



PhalcBna Noctua Caranea, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 140, pi. 269, fig. e, f (1782), ^ . 



Bendis Caranea, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 269. 



Hulodes Caranea, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 208; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1335. 



Pale umber-brown, sparsely speckled with minute dark brown scales : forewing 

 with indistinct traces of a blackish-speckled zigzag lunular transverse subbasal line, 

 and a similar medial line ; a constricted ochreous-yellow reniform mark, and a 

 blackish orbicular punctiform spot. Male. Both wings with a pale brownish-grey 



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