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each side of the discocellulars ; a highly dentate postmedial line 

 slightly bent outwards between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to 

 angle of cell ; a marginal line, and line through the cilia. 



Fig. 131. — Tatobotys janapalis, <$. \. 



Hah. Formosa; Ceylon; Rangoon; Solomons. Exp. 16-20 

 millirn. 



4708. Tatobotys varanesalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 719. 



Decticogaster zonulalis, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii, p. 231, and xxvii, 

 p. 40, pi. 3, fig. 11. 



S . Fiery orange ; head and thorax slightly marked with fuscous ; 

 abdomen with black dorsal bands on first two segments and silvery 

 bands on the others, the anal segment white, striped with black. 

 Fore wing with two oblique black subbasal bands ; two spots in 

 the cell ; a Y-shaped medial band not reaching inner margin ; an 

 obliquely curved postmedial band diffused along costa and joining 

 the broad black outer area. Hind wing with two black lines from 

 near base of cell to near anal angle ; a v-shaped medial band from 

 costa to vein 2 ; a triangular patch from apical part of costa with 

 its apex on vein 2 ; a marginal black line. 



Hob. Rangoon; Borneo. Exp. 18 millhn. 



Genus ALMONIA. 



Almonia, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1495 (1865). 

 Dodanga, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 331 (1886). 



Type, A. truncatalis, Wlk. 



Range. S. India; Ceylon; Java; Celebes. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly and roundly scaled in 

 front, the 3rd minute and naked ; maxillary palpi filiform ; frons 

 rounded ; antennse annulated with rings at the joints ; abdomen of 

 male with the terminal segments flattened, the last segment long 

 and the anal tuft large ; tibiae with the outer spurs considerably 

 less than half the length of inner. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 

 from angle of cell ; 6 from well below upper angle ; 7 well sepa- 

 rated from 8, 9, 10. Hind wing with the outer margin excised at 

 middle, and the anal area produced into a large lobe ; veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell and approximated for a short distance ; 5 from 

 above the angle ; 6, 7 stalked ; male with a tuft of long hair from 

 base of inner margin. 



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