Euclasta defamatalis Walker, 1859

Identification Marks: Palpi white from below, with 2nd joint upturned and broadly scaled in front, the 3rd porrect and lying on the hair of 2nd joint, maxillary palpi dilated with scales, frons flat and oblique with lateral white lines; antennae are longer and ciliated. Head and thorax is pale fulvous; abdomen pale fuscous ringed with white. Fore wing pale fuscous; the costal area brownish to end of cell and with a black speck in cell and discocellular spot; a white fascia through lower part of cell; the outer area whitish, the veins streaked with brown and two subapical black streaks; a white line from costa before apex excurved to vein 4, then curving round and running to near base of inner margin, with some black on its inner edge and slightly dentate at each vein; a marginal white line. Hind wing semi-hyaline; the apical area slightly suffused with fuscous. (W.S. 30 mm).