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NOCTUIDJS. 



Purplish fuscous. Fore wing with the whorl-shaped stigma as 

 in hieroglyphica. Underside with curved series of white spots, 

 which show slightly on upperside, the two at costa of hind wing 

 being prominent. 



A variety has an irregular postraedial white line and the cilia 

 white. 



Hab. KW. Himalayas ; Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 84-108 inillim. 



Genus HYLODES. 

 Hulodes, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 207 (1852). 



Type, H. caranea, Cram. 



Range. Formosa; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; 

 Malacca; Java. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd minute 

 in male, of moderate length in female ; antennae simple ; thorax 

 and abdomen clothed with coarse hair ; tibiae not spined ; male 

 with the tibiae, the 1st tarsal joint of rnid legs, and all the joints of 

 hind legs fringed with long hair. Fore wing with the costa arched 

 towards apex, which is somewhat falcate. Hind wing with the cell 

 short ; vein 5 from close to lower angle. 



Larvae with four pairs of abdominal prolegs, the first rudi- 

 mentary. 



SECT. I. Hind wing with the outer margin crenulate and 

 produced to a point at vein 4. 



2409. Hylodes caranea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii, pi. 269 E, F ; Moore, 

 Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 166, tigs. 3, 3 a, & pi. 167, fig. 6 (larva) ; C. $ S. 

 no. 2575. 



<5 . Fuscous brown. Wings suffused with purplish as far as 



Fig. 260. Hylodes caranea, 



the curved submarginal line which runs from the apex to inner 

 margin of hind wing, the area beyond it ochreous brown with a 



