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NOCTUIDJE. 
it ; a subterminal series of dark brown and silvery spots ; 
a series of black striae before termen and fine black terminal 
line ; the underside pale red. 
Hab. D’Entrecasteaux Is., Fergusson I. {Meek), 1 
2 $ ; Solomon Is., Guadalcanal [Meek), 2 $, Isabel I. 
{Meek), 1 <$, Choiseul {Meek), 2 $ type. Exp. 26-30 millim. 
Homodes perilitha, n. sp. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish red, the ventral 
surface of abdomen brownish white. Fore wing red suffused 
with brown, the costal edge darker brown with some silvery 
scales below it towards base ; indistinct sinuous brown 
antemedial and medial lines with some silvery scales on them ; 
a postmedial series of small tufts of black and silvery scales, 
excurved to vein 4, then incurved, with traces of a brownish 
line beyond it ; a subterminal series of small blackish and 
silvery spots, strongly excurved below costa and with traces 
of a series of dark spots beyond it and reddish line before it ; 
a series of small black spots before termen from below apex 
to vein 3, then black stri* to vein 1 ; a fine black terminal 
line. Hind wing red suffused with brown ; traces of a 
brownish antemedial line ; a curved postmedial series of 
spots formed by tufts of black and silvery scales with a larger 
tuft above inner margin ; a rather maculate subterminal 
blackish and silvery line with a red line before it ; a waved 
black line before termen and a fine terminal line ; the under- 
side brownish red. 
Hab. Pulo Laut {Doherty), 1 $ type. Exp. 26 millim. 
Genas H0M0DINA, nov. 
Type, H. argentifera. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head and broadly and smoothly rounded 
with scales in front, and slightly fringed with hair behind 
towards extremity, the 3rd short with small triangular tuft 
in front ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male 
almost simple ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales 
and without crests ; tibiae slightly' - fringed with hair ; abdomen 
smoothly scaled and without crests ; wings short and broad. 
Fore wing with the apex rather produced and acute, the 
termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; vein 3 from 
well before angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from 
upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 
areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one- 
third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed 
from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 
with the cell near base only. 
