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(li). Labial palpi moderately long, straight, porrected, triangularly 

 scaled, terminal joint moderately long, in male exposed, in female 

 concealed. Maxillary palpi moderate, filiform. Posterior tibise 

 with outer' spurs half inner. Abdomen moderate, in male with 

 short slender apical tuft ; valves retracted. Fore wings with vein 

 11 moderately long and oblique. Hind wings as broad as fore 

 wings ; 4 and 5 approximated towards base, 3 tolerably approxi- 

 mated at base, 7 out of 6 near origin, anastomosing with 8 to 

 beyond one-third. 



Closely allied to Sameodes, of which it possesses the 

 peculiar antennal sinuation of the male, but not the 

 costal fold of the fore wings, nor are the terminal spurs 

 of the posterior tibige absent. 



Pessocosma iolealis, Walk. 



Lepyrodes iolealis, Walk., 466. 



^ , 2 , 10 — 18 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous-fiiscous, 

 mixed with ochreous-whitish. Antennae light grey. Abdomen 

 ochreous-fuscous, segmental margins white. Legs ochreous- 

 fuscoiTS, iiTorated with white. Fore wings rather elongate- 

 triangular, narrow at base, costa slightly sinuate, gently arched 

 towards apex, apex tolerably rounded, hind margin waved, oblique, 

 somewhat sinuate above, bowed in middle ; ochreous-brown, mixed 

 with whitish ochreous, and irregularly suffused with dark fuscous ; 

 markings white, semitransparent, laterally suffusedly edged with 

 dark fuscous, consisting of several small subquadrate spots ; two 

 transversely j)laced at one-fourth, lower on inner margin, upper 

 touching lower of two others transversely placed in disc imme- 

 diately beyond them ; two larger spots above and below middle of 

 disc ; an irregular obscure dark fuscous line from four-fifths of 

 costa to two-thirds of inner margin, forming an angulated curve 

 outwards on middle third, and followed on upper and lower 

 portions by several small white lunate marks, on central portion by 

 three small spots ; two or three moderate spots transversely placed 

 before upper part of this line ; cilia white, with a fuscous line at 

 one-third, terminal two-thirds sharply baiTed with fuscous. Hind 

 wings markedly sinuate below apex ; ground colour and markings 

 much as in fore wings, but central spots attenuated and fascia-like, 

 antemedian spots reduced to a suffu,' '^d subbasal band ; cilia as in 

 fore wings. 



Superficially much resembling Samea and Sameodes ; 

 smaller and darker than S. pipleidalis, with the mark- 

 ings differently placed. 



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