Type. 
196 Sir George IF. Hampson on the 
Genus TAToportys. 
Tatobotys, Butl., P. Z. S., 1880, p. 686. 
Decticogaster, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent., 1880, p. 230, 
Cometura, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, 
p- 226. 
Palpi upturned and not reaching vertex of head, the 2nd joint 
moderately fringed in front, the 3rd short and blunt ; maxillary 
palpi extremely minute; frons rounded; antenne rather longer 
than the forewing and somewhat thickened; legs long and slender, 
the outer spurs about half the length of inner; abdomen ex- 
Tatobotys janapalis, ¢, + (from Moths Ind., vol. iv.). 
tremely long. Forewing with the costa arched towards apex; the 
outer margin very oblique; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; 
7 straight and well separated from 8, 9,10. Hindwing with the 
cell about half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle; 6, 7 
from upper angle. 
Sect. I. (Tatobotys.) Abdomen of male with extremely 
long pointed anal segment. 
(1). Taroporys JANAPALIS, WIk., xvili., 676 . Formosa, Cey- 
Botys lirisalis, W1k., xix., 1003. lon, Burma, 
Botys bistrigulalis, W1k., xxxiv., 1415. Solomons. 
Botys cunealis, W\k., xxxiv., 1420. 
} Tatobotys argillacea, Butl., P. Z. 8., 1880, 
p. 686. 
+Hedylepta gemella, Moore, Lep. Atk., 
p. 208. 
Lonchodes ceramochra, Meyr., Trans. Ent. 
Soc. Lond., 1887, p. 217. 
(2). *TaTroBoTys VARANESALIS, W1k., xviil., 719. Burma, 
Decticogaster zonulalis, Snell., Tijd. v. Ent., Borneo. 
Xx. p. 251, and xxvu., pls, fig. 11. 
Sec. II. (Cometura.) Abdomen of male with the anal 
segment short. 
