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curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; fi from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola; 11 from cell. Hind vs^ing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of disoo- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



1800. Polytelodes florifera. 



Polytelaflonfera, Wlk. xv. 1666 (1858). 



Head and thorax blue-black ; palpi orange, with black bands on 

 Ist and 2nd joints ; lower part of frons, patches round base of 



Fig. l-19. — l'u/i/fe/odcsforife)-a, c?. 1- 



antennie and on back of head, edges of tegulie and patagia, and 

 paired spots on pro-, meso-, and metathorax orange ; tibiie and 

 tarsi ringed with orange ; abdomen black, with orange dorsal 

 segmental bands except on first segment. Fore wing black suffused 

 with leaden grey; an orange point at base; subbasal line rejire- 

 sented by black spots with orange on their outer edges below costa 

 and cell, with an orange spot beyond it below submedian fold and 

 some scales above inner margin ; antemedial line black defined by 

 orange on inner side, waved, interrupted ; claviform defined by 

 black and orange ; orbicular and reniform with orange anuuli 

 defined by black, the former round, the latter with pale pink 

 centre open below and with the pink postmedial patch extending 

 into it ; postmedial line black, defined by orange on outer side, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 5, then strongly 

 incurved to near origin of vein 2, and interrupted by tlie pink 

 patch which extends to termen from below vein 4 to inner margin, 

 and connected with spots above and below vein 5 with the apical 

 pink patch ; some white points on costa towards apex ; subterminal 

 line represented by a series of rather ill-defined black spots, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved below vein 3 : a terminal 

 series of small black lunules with some black marks on their inner 

 sides between veins G and 2 ; cilia chequered black and orange. 

 Hind wing fuscous, with white patch in, below, and beyond lower 

 part of cell ; a small discoidal spot ; cilia orange. 



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