POLYTI:; LODES. 



455 



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

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

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

 cellulai-s ; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



1800. Polytelodes florifera. 



Polytela florifera, Wlk. xv. 1666 (1858). 



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

 1st and 2nd joints ; lower part of frons, patches round base of 



Fig. 1-9. — Vvlytdodes fliirifera, (^ . 



antennas and on back of head, edges of tegulae and patagia, and 

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

 tarsi ringed with orange ; abdomen black, Avith orange dorsal 

 segmental bands except on first segment. Fore wing black stiffused 

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

 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 annuli 

 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 outAvards below costa, excurved ^to vein 5, then strongly 

 incurved to near origin of vein 2, and interrupted by the 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 6 and 2 ; cilia chequered black and orange. 

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

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



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