458 xocTuiD.i:. 



spots ; a lateral seiies of yellow spots anterior and posterior except 

 on thoracic somites, where they are posterior only. Food-plants: 

 Gloriosa superha and Aiuai'f/llls. 



1803. Polytela florigera. (Plate XCI. fig. U.) 



Tolytela florigera, Guen. Noct. i. p. 114 (1852); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 169. 

 Polytela inclyta, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 27 (1869). 



Head and thorax blue-black ; metathorax with pair of orange 

 spots ; abdomen black, the terminal segment orange. Fore wing 

 black suffused with leaden purple ; subbasal line double, black 

 filled in with ochreous, waved, from costa to vein 1, black patches 

 defined by reddish beyond it above and below vein 1 ; antemedial 

 line double, black filled in with ochreous, oblique, waved ; claviform 

 a small black patch ; orbicular and reniforra with reddish centres 

 and ochreous annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter 

 tigure-of-8 shaped ; a waved black medial line oblique from costa to 

 median nervure ; postmedial line double, black filled in with 

 ochreous, waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, some yellow points beyond it on costa ; a yellow 

 apical patch, the subterminal line arising from it consisting of 

 ochreous lunules on dentate black marks defined on inner side 

 by reddish sutt'tision ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia 

 black, with a series of orange points at base. Hind wing fuscous 

 black. 



[fah. BoMUAY, Canara ( Ward), 5 $ , type indi/ta ; Madras 

 (Elliot), 1 J, Belgaum (Watson), 1 $ , Bangalore (Watson), 3 $ . 

 E.rj). 28-32 millim. 



1804. Polytela chrysospila. 



Polytela chryso^pila, Wlk. xxxii. 635 (1865) ; Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 101. 

 f. 15; Hiiipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 169. 



Head and thorax blue-black ; mesothorax with orange patch ; 

 abdomen black, the terminal segment orange. Fore wing black 

 suffused with leaden blue, leaving the lines black and ill-defined ; 

 the subbasal and antemedial lines connected by streaks on costa, 

 below cell, and on inner margin ; reniform a lunulate or somewhat 

 quadrate yellow spot ; postmedial lino excurved from costa to 

 vein 4, then incurved. Hind wing fuscous black. 



Hah. Burma, Karen Hills, Thayetmyo ( Watson), 1 $ ; Java 

 (Horsjielcl), 2 <S , type. Bay. 30 millim. 



Genus XANTHOPASTIS. 



Type. 



Xanthopasti^. Hiibn . Verz. p. 2 11 (1 827 "i timais. 



Philochrysa, Grote, Proc. Eut. Soc. Pliil. ii. p. 3o8 (1863) timais. 



Proboscis aborted, miinite; palpi slioi-t, poi-rect, clothed with long hair; 

 frons smooth; eye.s hirge, roiindeci ; antenna' of male pubescent du under 

 surface; head and ihornx (.clothed Willi \cr_v long ruuj;h liair and scales; tibn» 



