174 SIB G. F. HAMPSOK—BEVISION OF MOTHS [Peb. 21, 



and below cell and near the medial and postmedial brown lines, 

 the former from below costa, excurved at median nervules and 

 recurved at vein 1, the latter straight from costa to vein 5, then 

 excurved to termen ; an apical brown patch and line through the 

 cilia. Underside of fore wing pale chestnut, with whitish patch 

 below cell ; irregular streaks and patches of black scales in and 

 below cell and patches of opalescent scales on median nervure and 

 in and beyond end of cell ; some pink suffusion below end of cell ; 

 two irregular bro\^n-edged postmedial patches of opalescent scales ; 

 a similar curved line across apical area ending on termen at vein 

 2 ; a white patch on termen below apex ; hind wing strongly 

 irrorated and suffused with pink. 



Eah. Niger, Warri {Roth). Exp. 18 mm. Type in Coll. 

 Eothschild. 



Genus 90. Sameodes. 



Sameodes Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. 1880, p. 217. 



Pessocosma Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 301. 



Mimorista Warr. A. M. Is". H. (6) vi. p. 476 (1890). 



Palpi rostriform, extending about the length of head, the 3rd 

 joint prominent and downcm-ved ; maxillary palpi filiform ; frons 

 rounded. Eore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, £ 

 from angle ; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9. Hind wing 

 with the costa slightly excised beyond middle ; veins 4, 5 approxi- 

 mated for a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing 

 with 8. 



90. 



Sameodes cancellalis, S ■ \- (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) 



Sect I. Antennae of male with long cilia and sinuous at middle ; 

 both wings with the apex somewhat produced. 



A. {Sameodes). Male with a swelling on outer side of mid 

 tibia before the medial spurs, of which the outer is 

 minute, the terminal spurs replaced by a small tuft of 

 scales ; the tibia bent beyond middle. Eore wing \^ith 

 a large medial costal lobe on upperside ; hind wing with 

 the costa excised before the middle as well as after. 



Type. (1) Sameodes cajs-cellalfs Zell. Lep. Caffr. p. 34. Africa ; 



India, Ceylon, & Burma; Java; Australia. 



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



pi. 181. f. 14. 

 fLepyrodes hpidalis Wlk. xvii, 465. 



