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Genus POLYTELA. ^ 



Type. 

 Polytcia, Guen. Nocf. i. p. 113 (1852) gloriosT,. 



Proboscis ratlicr slight, non-functional ; palpi short, porrect, thickly clotlied 

 witli liair ; frons witli rounded prominence witli corneous plate below it; 

 eyes large, rt>iuuled ; antenna; of male ciliated ; liead and thorax clothed with 

 liair only and without distinct crests ; abdomen with some roucjh liair at base, 

 but without crests. Foi-e winj; with the apex rounded, the ternien obliquely 

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

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

 reins 3,4 from 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. 



A. Fore wing pale pink orientalis. 



B. Fore wing blue-black. 



a. Fore wing with apical yellow patch. 



a}. Hind wing with the cilia yellow gloriosas. 



b^. Hir.d wing with the cilia black Jlorigera. 



6. Fore wing without aj)ical yellow patch chrysospila. 



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



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



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

 antenna?, patagia in front, and paired spols on pro-, mcso-, and 

 metathorax orange ; tibia) and tarsi banded Avith orange; abdomen 

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

 point on it at base ; subbasal line represented b}' black strife 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 crimson centre and black patch 

 just before it on costa ; postmedial line represented by a point on 

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

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

 into a j)atch at costa with a yellow point on it, excurved 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 the 

 medial part of postmedial line, tJ-.e 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. 



Hah. Aden (Yerbury), 2 J ; ? Nilgiris (Swinhoe), 1 2 type. 

 ExD. 38 millim. 



Larva. On Pancratium tortuosum. 



