HULODES. ll 



Hylodes, Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, ii. p. 462 (1894), 

 nom. prceocc. 



This genus includes the largest species of the family. They 

 are dull-coloured moths, with shaggy hair, the costa of the 

 fore-wings arched before the tip, and the hind margins more 

 or less denticulated or excavated. 



The larva has sixteen legs, with the first pair of pro-legs 

 rudimentary. 



HULODES CARANEA. 

 (Plate CXL. t Fig. 2.) 



Noctua caranea, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 269, figs. E, F 



(1780). 

 Hulodes caranea., Guene'e, Spec. Ge'n. Le'pid. Noct. iii. p. 208 



(1852); Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 1335, 



no i (1858); Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, iii. p. 155, pi. 166, 



figs. 3, 3 a ; pi. 167, fig. 6(1885). 

 Hylodes caranea, Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, ii. p. 462, 



fig. 260 (1894). 



This species is found throughout India, Ceylon, and the 

 Indo-Malayan Islands generally. It expands from two inches 

 and three-quarters to three inches and a quarter. 



It is light umber-brown, with sparsely scattered dark brown 

 scales. The wings have a pale grey marginal border, in the 

 male extending from the apex of the fore-wings to the anal 

 angle of the hind-wings, with a straight, well-defined edge, 2nd 

 bordered by a slender brownish line. The female has two 

 dark brown sub-marginal lines, the inner one being very broaxL 



According to Thwaites and Moore the larva feeds on 

 Acanthads. It is olive-green above, paler beneath, with greyish- 

 white blotches, and a band of confluent blackish speckles on 

 the back and sides. 



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