224 PYRALIDJE. 



halfway to apex. Hind wing with the cell about one-fourth length 

 of wing ; vein 3 from angle ; 4, 5 approximated for some distance ; 

 6, 7 stalked. 



4706. Hymenoptychis sordida, Zell. K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1852, p. 65 ; 



Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 426, pi. 16, fig. 2. 

 Syrbatis tipuliformis, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 120. 

 Botys pterophoralis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1413. 



Dull red-brown. Fore wing with slight semihyaline streaks in 

 the interspaces and traces of dark dentate ante- and postmedial 

 lines. 



Fig. 130. Hymenoptychis sordida, $ . j. 



Hab. S.Africa; Calcutta; Ceylon; Eangoon; Malacca; Borneo > 

 Marshall and Ellice Islands. Exp., $ 28, $ 30 millim. 



Genus TATOBOTYS. 



Tatobotys, Butl. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 686. 



Uecticogaster, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii, p. 230 (1880). 



Cometura, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 226. 



Type, T. janapalis, Wlk. 



Ranye. Oriental region and eastwards to the Solomons. 



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; antennae rather longer 

 than fore wing and somewhat thickened ; legs long and slender, 

 the outer spurs about half the length of inner ; abdomen extremely 

 long in male, with very long anal tuft. Fore wing 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. 

 Hind wing with the cell nearly halt' the length of wing ; veins 3, 

 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



4707. Tatobotys janapalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 676 ; C.$S. no. 4096. 

 Botys lirisalis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 1003. 

 Botys cunealis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1420. 

 Tatobotys argillacea, Butl. P. Z. IS. 1880, p. 686. 

 Hedylepta gemella, Moore, Lep. Aik. p. 208 ; C. fy S. no. 4344. 



Rufous-brown slightly suffused with fuscous. Fore wing with 

 the basal costal area fuscous ; an obscure minutely dentate ante- 

 medial black line ; a spot in cell ; both wings with a black line on 



