456 . NocruiD-ic. 



Genus POLYTELA. 



Type. 



Polyiela, Guen. Noct. i. p. 113 (1852) gloriosm. 



Proboscis rather slight, non-functional ; palpi short, porrect, thickly clothed 

 with hair ; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it ; 

 eyes large, rounded ; antennaj of male ciliated ; bead and thorax clothed with 

 hair only and without distinct crests ; abdomen with some rough hair at base, 

 but without crests. Fore wing witli the apex rounded, tlie ternien obliquely 

 curved ; veins 3 and 5 fi'om near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 i'rom angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

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

 base only. 



K. Fore wing pale pink orlentalis. 



B. Fore wing blue-black. 



a. Fore wing with apical yellow patch. 



a^. Hind wing with the cilia yellow gloriosm. 



b^. Hind wing with the cilia black florigera. 



b. Fore wing without apical yellow patch chrgsospila. 



1801. Polytela orientalis. (Plate XCI. fig. 8.) 



Glottula orientalis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 168 (1894). 



S . Head and thorax black ; palpi below at base, basal joint of 

 antenuoe, patagia in front, and paired spots on pro-, meso-, and 

 metathorax orange ; tibioB and tarsi banded with orange ; abdomen 

 fuscous black. Pore wing pale pink ; a black patch with orange 

 point on it at base ; subbasal line represented by black strijie from 

 costa and cell ; antemedial line oblique, waved, interrupted at 

 veins, some black before it on costa ; claviform absent ; orbicular 

 a black point ; reniform black, with ciimson centre and black patch 

 just before it on costa ; postmcdial line repre^euted by a point on 

 costa and an incurved waved portion from vein 3 to inner margin ; 

 subterminal line black, waved, more or less interrupted, expanding 

 into a patch at costa with a yellow point on it, exourved from 

 costa to vein 4, then incurved, more or less connected with some 

 black spots on termen ; a black terminal line ; cilia chequered 

 black and orange. Hind wing pinkish white ; the underside with 

 discoidal point. 



$ . Fore wing with some black on base of inner margin and a 

 larger antemedial patch on costa ; orbicular absent ; traces of tbe 

 medial part of postmedial line, the black on terminal area more 

 extensive ; cilia with less orange ; hind wing fuscous, with a 

 whitish patch in, below, and beyond lower part of cell ; cilia 

 chequered fuscous and yellowish. 



Hub. Aden (Terbury), 2 J; ? Nilgiris (Swlnhoe), 1 $ type. 

 Exp. 38 millim. 



Larva. On Pancratium tortuosum. 



