168 NOCTUID.E. 



Larva. Thick and warty ; black, spotted with bluish white ; the 

 head, a dorsal patch on 1st somite and two terminal somites red 

 with black spots ; legs red and black. 



Fig. \Q7.-Glottula dominica, rf. \. 



IJab. S. Africa : Mauritius ; throughout Continental India, 

 Ceylon, and Burma ; Java. Exp. 36-38 millim. 



1587. Glottula orientalis, n. sp. 



cf . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown ; the basal joint of 

 antennae yellow ; some yellow on tegulae. Fore wing pale pink ; 

 some irregular black marks on base of costa and inner margin ; a 

 broken antemedial waved band ; the reniform orange with black 

 outline, and a black patch on the costa above it ; a lunulate post- 

 medial line excurved and obsolescent from the costa to vein 3, well 

 marked towards inner margin ; the outer area black, with an irre- 

 gular series of pink striae. Hind wing dark fuscous, the discal 

 area suffused with white, and with a lunule at end of cell ; cilia of 

 both wings orange and black ; underside whitish with a cell-spot, 

 traces of a postmedial line, and broad marginal band. 



Ilab. Nilgiris. Exp. 38 millim. Type in coll. Moore. 



Genus POLYTELA. 

 Polytela, Guen. Noct. i, p. 113 (1852). 



Type, P. gloriosce, Fabr. 



Range. Throughout India and Ceylon ; Java. 



Eyes hairy ; proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect and roughly 

 scaled, the 3rd joint short ; antennae almost simple. Thorax and 

 abdomen without tufts ; tibiae without spines. 



1588. Polytela gloriosse, Fair. Sp. Ins. ii, p. 205, no. 150; Moore, 

 Lep. Ceyl. iii ; p. 145, figs. 1, 1 a (larva) ; C. $ S. no. 1786. 



Head and thorax blue-black ; the basal joint of palpi and an- 

 tennae orange; three orange specks on metathorax ; abdomen 

 black, the terminal segments orange. Fore wing blue-black ; an 



