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and slightly irrorated with white ; fore wing with traces of waved 

 antemedial and medial lines ; the disk and outer area suffused with 

 fuscous. Abdomen and hind wing fuscous, the latter with the cilia 

 white ; underside with the outer area fuscous. 

 Hah. Ceylon. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus H0M0DES. 

 Homodes, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 280 (1852). 



Type, H. crocea, Guen. 



Range. Bombay; Ceylon; Andamans ; Java. 



Palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head, the 3rd joint very 

 minute ; antennae ciliated ; thorax smoothly scaled. Abdomen 

 with dorsal tufts on proximal segments ; tibiae nearly smooth ; 

 fore legs of male with a tuft of long hair from base of coxae. Eore 

 wing with the apex rounded. Hind wing with vein 5 from near 

 centre of discocellulars. 



2192. Homodes crocea, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 280, pi. xi, fig. 2 ; C. ty S. 

 no. 2189 (part). 



S . Orange-scarlet. Eore wing with subbasal and antemedial 

 waved lines with silvery scales on them ; a boss of black and 

 silvery scales in cell and two at end of it; an oblique medial 

 fuscous band with silvery scales on it ; an irregularly waved post- 

 medial line, with indistinct line beyond it ; a crimson submarginal 



Fig. 198. — Homodes crocea, rf . \. 



line, followed by a fuscous and silvery line ; a marginal series of 

 dark striae. Hind wing with oblique fuscous and silvery medial 

 band ; irregularly waved postmediai line, followed by an indistinct 

 line ; a crimson submarginal line, with a fuscous and silvery one 

 beyond it ; a marginal series of dark striae. 

 Hob. Andamans ; Java. Exp. 38 millim. 



2193. Homodes vivida, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 280 ; Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, 

 pi. 163, fig. 17; C.Sf S. no. 2189 (part.). 



J . Differs from crocea in the fore wing being without the 

 bosses of scales at middle and end of cell ; the postmediai line of 

 both wings with a series of small raised bosses. 



Hob. Bombay; Ceylon. Exp. 32 millim. 



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