roLVTELA. 457 



1 802. Polytela gloriosae. 



Bo)nhi/x gluriogce, F;ihr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 205 (1781); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. 

 p. 13, pi. 145. ff. 1, la ; Hiiipsn. Moths Iiid. ii. p. 168. 



Head and thorax blue -black ; palpi at base, basal joint of 

 antennae and a ])atch behind them, and paired spots on meso- and 

 mctatliorax orange ; tibiae and tarsi banded with orange ; abdomen 

 black, with the terminal segment orange. Fore wing black suffused 

 with leaden grej^ ; an orange point at base ; subbasal line double, 

 black filled in with orar.ge, waved, from costa to vein 1, an orange 

 point bej'ond it in cell ; black spots surrounded with crimson above 

 and below vein 1 before the anteuiedial line, which is double, filled in 

 with orange, waved ; claviform more or less developed, black ; orbi- 

 cular small, round, yellowish defined by black, sometimes with dark 

 centre ; a waved medial line oblique from costa to below cell, where 

 it is angled; renit'orm with crimson centre and yellowish annulus 

 defined by black, open below and with the ground-colour extending 



Fig. \2>(i.~Polijtela gloriu^e, ^ . \. (From Motlis Incl. vol. ii.) 



into it ; postmedial line double, black more or less filled in with 

 yellowish and with orange at costa, waved, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some orange points bej'ond 

 it on costa ; an orange and yellowish apical patch, the sub- 

 terminal line arising from it, consisting of yellowish lunulate marks 

 on black patches defined on inner side by ci'imson semicircular 

 marks, somewhat dentate at veins 4 and 3 and ex] anding into 

 a yellowish patch at tornus ; a terminal series of small black spots 

 often with yellowish marks on their inner side ; cilia chequered 

 black and orange. Hind wing fuscous ; the cilia orange ; the 

 underside rather paler, with traces of discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. PuNJ.UJ (I/orsJlehl, Home), 4 c?, o 5, Manpuri, 2 $, 

 Jubbulpur (ButJer), 1 5 ; (janjam, 1 $ ; Eojibay (Leith), 1 c? ; 

 Caxara (Ward), 2 $; Madras, Belgaum (Watson), 1 c? , Calicut 

 (Frlloirs- Wilson), 1 $ ; Ceylon (TeynpUton, Orecn), 2 d" , 3 $ , 

 Trincomali (Yerbvrii), 1 $ . Exp. 28-42 millim. 



Larva. Purplish ])rown irrorated with silvery blue ; head orango- 

 red ; a dorsal orange patch on 1st somite and subdorsal patches on 

 2nd and ;3rd, 10th, 11th, 12th, with black spots on them ; a dorsal 

 series of yellow spots on posterior part of somites except 1, somites 

 8 to 10 with smaller anterior spots ; a subdorsal series of orange 



