Sameodes cancellalis Zeller, 1852

Identification Marks: Palpi rostriform, extending about the length of head and down curved at extremity, 3rd joint prominent. Head, thorax, abdomen & wings are fulvous, abdomen 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 hyaline spots in the interspaces 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. (W.S. ♂ 20 mm).