20 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY 



of August, and leaves the empty pupa-case suspended in the 

 gallery in the reed-mace. 



SUB-FAMILY IV. GLOTTULIN^. 



This is an exotic group of moderate-sized moths, with the 

 antennae, palpi, proboscis, and legs all rather short, the thorax 

 pubescent, and the abdomen smooth and silky. The fore- 

 wings are blackish, or varied with bright spots and lines, and 

 the hind-wings are \\hite or brown. One species, Brithys 

 pancratii, (Cyrilli), which inhabits South Europe, has dark 

 smoky brown fore-wings and white hind-wings. The larva 

 feeds on the leaves, stalks, and bulbs of Pancratium maritimum. 

 I have figured two handsome Indian species. 



GENUS POLYTELA. 

 Polytela, Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. i. p. 113 (1852). 



This genus contains some pretty East Indian moths, with 

 short, pilose palpi, setose antennae, and a moderately stout 

 abdomen, obtuse at the extremity, and extending a little 

 beyond the hind-wings. 



POLYTELA 

 (Plate CXXVIL, Fig. 3.) 



Bombyx gloriosa, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 587, no. 107 (1775). 

 Polytela glorioscs^ Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. i. p. 113, 



pi. 4, fig. 2 (1852) ; Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 



ix. p. 138, no. i (1856); Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, iii. p. 13, 



pi. 145, figs, i, la (1884); Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind. 



Moths, ii. p. 168, fig. 108 (1894). 



