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orange speck at base ; the subbasal and antemedial waved lines 

 filled in with orange, with an orange speck between them in cell, 



and two pink and black lunules 

 towards inner margin ; the orbicu- 

 lar a yellow ring-mark; the reni- 

 form yellow, with the upper po.rt 

 centred with pink, the lower with 

 fuscous ; some orange specks on 

 costa towards apex ; the curved 

 lunulate double postmedial line 

 Fig. 108. Polytela glorias 3 , f filled in with yellow, and with n 



series of pink and black lunules 



beyond it ; large orange blotches at apex and outer angle ; cilia 

 black and orange. Hind wing fuscous, with traces of an angled 

 postmedial line ; the cilia orange. 



Larva smooth ; purple-black, with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral 

 series of white spots ; purplish lateral blotches on thoracic and two 

 terminal somites ; head, legs, and a dorsal spot on 1st somite red. 

 Food-plant Amaryllis. 



Hab. Throughout India and Ceylon. Exp. 28-42 millim. 



1589. Polytela florigera, Gum. Noct. i, p. 114; C. # S. no. 1785. 

 Polytela inclyta, Wlk. Char, undescr. Het. p. 27. 



Differs from gloriosa in the basal joints of the palpi and antennae 

 being black ; the orange spots on inetathorax often absent ; cilia 

 of hind wing black. 



Hab. Madras ; Canara. Exp. 28 millirn. 



1590. Polytela chrysospila, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. G35. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black, the last with the extremity 

 orange. Fore wing with the basal two-thirds black, with blue- 

 black patches on it ; a large yellow patch at end of cell ; the outer 

 area blue-black. Hind wing black. 



JJab. Karen Hills ; Java. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus RABILA. 

 Eabila, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 507 (1865). 



Type, R.frontalis, Wlk. 



Range. Ceylon. 



Eves naked without lashes; proboscis obsolete; palpi porrect 

 and evenly scaled, the 3rd joint long ; frons with a rounded cor- 

 neous projection ; antennre of male with short branches. Thorax 

 and abdomen without, tufts ; tibia) without spines. Neuration 

 normal ; fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and rounded, 

 the outer angle slightly hooked. 



