GLOTTULIDjE. 1.3 



Genus POLYTELA. 

 Pohjtela, Guenee, Noct. i. p. 113 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lop. Ilet. B. M. ix. p. 138. 



Male. Forewing elongated, narrow, costa straight, apex rounded, exterior 

 margin oblique ; cell narrow, extending two-thirds the wing ; first subcostal emitted 

 at two-fifths before end of the cell, second at one-eighth, trifid ; fifth from end of 

 the cell and touching third near its base ; discocellular concave, radials from upper 

 end and near lower end ; middle median from angle close to end of the cell, lower at 

 about one-third before the end ; submedian recurved : hindwing short, apex convex, 

 exterior margin undulated ; costal and subcostal joined at the base, two subcostals 

 on a footstalk at one-fourth beyond the cell ; discocellular slender, obliquely concave, 

 radial from below the middle ; ceil broad, extending to half the wing ; two upper 

 medians from end of the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian and 

 internal straight. Body moderately stout, abdomen extending a little beyond the 

 hindwings; palpi short, stout, compactly pilose, third joint short, thick; antennsB 

 minutely ciliated ; legs stout, middle and hind tibiae spurred. 



Type, P. gloriosa. 



POLYTELA GLOKIOS^ (Plate 145, Fig. 1, q, \a, larva). 

 Bomhyx gloriosa;, Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 205 (1781) ; Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 484. 

 Polytela gloriono', Guenee, Noct. i. p. 113, pi. 4, fig. 2 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het.B. M. ix.p. 138. 



Forewing purplish greyish-black ; with a golden-yellow streaked black transverse 

 subbasal band, an antemedial angulated duplex band, and a recurved discal sinuous 

 band, the antemedial band with a black outer lobe beneath the cell ; a purple-red 

 bordered black spot across the submedian vein between the two inner bands ; outer 

 discal area with a transverse series of longitudinal purple-red bordered black spots 

 terminating in a yellowish-white patch at the apex and posterior angle, and with an 

 intervening connecting yellow sinuous line traversing the black spots; a small 

 orbicular whitish spot with black centre and outer ring; reniform spot large, 

 whitish, with black and purple-red central streak ; a small yellow spot at base of 

 the wing, and yellow spots along the costal edge ; cilia with inner row of alternate 

 black and yellow spots: hindwing purplish cinereous-brown; cilia yellow. Body 

 purplish-black ; head and thorax above spotted with yellow, anal segment also 

 yellow ; palpi and legs banded with yellow. 



Expanse, S 1-S-, ? Ia inch. 



Larva elongated, smooth, purple-black ; with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral rows 

 of pure white spots, and a purplish Ijlotch on sides of second, third, fourth, eleventh, 

 and twelfth segments ; head, a dorsal spot on second segment, and legs, red. Pupa 

 red. 



"Feeds on Amaryllis." {I)r. Thu:aites.) 



