SAMEODES. 375 



between veins 2 and 7 being reduced to a small spot above the base 

 of vein 2 and a pair of spots between veins 5 and 7 ; tbe series 

 beyond the postmedial line complete but small ; cilia of both wings 

 white at base, then with a black line through them, the tips 

 chequered white and black. 



Hal. Punjab ; Mlgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 16 millim. 



B. (Sameodes). Male with a swelling on the outer side of hind tibice 

 before the medial spurs, of which the outer is minute, the terminal 

 spurs replaced by a small tuft of scales, the tibice being bent beyond 

 tfie middle ; fore wing ivith a large medial costal lobe on upper- 

 side ; hind wing ivith the costa excised before the middle as well 

 as after. 



5082. Sameodes cancellalis, Zell. K. Vet.-Ak. Handl 1852, p. 34. 

 Stenia pipleisalis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 420 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. 



pi. 181, tig. 14 ; C.Sf S. no. 4238. 



Lepyrodes lepidalis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 465 ; C. $ S. no. 4371. 

 Saoiea sidealis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 937. 

 Hyinenia meridionalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1314. 

 Sameodes trithyralis, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii, p. 218, & xxvi. 



p. 134, pi. 8, fig. 4. 

 Samea vespertinalis, Saalm. Ber. Senck, Ges. 1880, p. 301. 



Fulvous, abdpmen tinged with white; male with protrusible 



black anal tuft. Fore wing 

 with the costal lobe of 

 male edged by curled black 

 scales ; a quadrate hyaline 

 spot in cell and larger spots 

 below middle and in end 

 of cell; a series of large 

 Fig. 202. Sameodes cancellalis, tf. \. hyaline spots in the inter- 

 spaces between veins 1 and 



7, retracted below vein 1 and bisected by the sinuous postmedial 

 line which is retracted along vein 2 ; four black marks on the costa 

 towards apex. Hind wing hyaline, with dark speck in and another 

 below cell ; a discocellular dark-edged fulvous band narrowing below 

 the cell ; a waved postmedial line bent outwards between veins 5 

 and 2, where it is conjoined to the marginal fuscous-suffused fulvous 

 band, and with a series of hyaline spots beyond it from costa to 

 vein 2 ; both wings with marginal black line and the cilia black and 

 white. 



Hab. Throughout Africa, India, Ceylon, and Burma; Java; 

 Australia ; Fiji. Exp. 22 millim. 



SECT. II. Antennae of male filiform and minutely ciliated ; neither 

 wing with the apex produced ; hind wing of male with the 

 cell very short, its upper part filled by a large hyaline fovea. 



5083. Sameodes miltochristalis, n. sp. 



Yellow or fiery orange ; patagia with a fuscous spot. Fore wing 



