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NOCTUID.E. 
Genus HULODES. 
Hulodes, Gnen. Noet. iii. p. 207 (1852) 
Type. 
caranea, Cram. 
Hulodes solomonensis, n. sp. 
<$. Head and tegulae rufous tinged with grey-brown ; thorax 
pale rufous with some black scales across middle of patagia ; 
palpi grey with the tuft of scales in front of 2nd joint rufous 
and the 3rd joint whitish ; fore tibiae greyish ; abdomen 
grey- brown with a purplish gloss, the base and ventral surface 
rufous. Fore wing rufous, the area between the antemedial 
and subterminal lines irrorated with dark brown, the costa 
and a postmedial patch from costa to vein 6 ochreous tinged 
with rufous, the disc with a purplish gloss ; a small black 
subbasal spot below the costa and striga below the cell, with 
a blackish point in the cell nearer the base and some blackish 
towards inner margin ; a blackish antemedial line, somewhat 
dentate towards costa, bent inwards in the cell, excurved 
below the cell, then oblique and sinuous ; a black point in 
middle of cell ; reniform whitish tinged with rufous and its 
centre defined by red-brown, narrow and oblique, an oblique 
blackish bar to it from costa ; postmedial line blackish, 
oblique and sinuous to vein 6, angled outwards at veins G 
and 4, then very oblique and slightly incurved ; a double 
oblique dark brown subterminal line filled in with ochreous 
from below apex to inner margin ; the termen rather paler 
with a series of black points before the dark brown terminal 
line. Hind -wing red-brown with the base rufous, the post- 
medial area except towards costa and the terminal area to- 
wards apex with a purple gloss ; a diffused dark antemedial 
line ; a very indistinct double slightly waved postmedial line 
with a pale shade on its outer edge, oblique below vein 4 ; 
a double oblique dark brown subterminal line filled in with 
ochreous and with a whitish shade beyond it ; a series of black 
points before termen and a fine pale line at base of cilia. 
Underside red-brown ; fore wing with oblique black discoidal 
striga and oblique shade from it to inner margin, a waved 
dark postmedial line excurved to vein 4 then oblique, a 
maculate dark subterminal line arising below the costa and 
diffused towards inner margin : hind wing with small black 
discoidal spot, diffused antemedial line, curved crenulate 
postmedial line ending at submedian fold, and maculate 
subterminal line. 
Hab. Solomons, Rendova I. {Meek), 1 £ type. Exp. 90 
millim. 
