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2. POLYTELA FLORIGERA. 



Cyaneo-nigra ; proboscis testacea ; thorax croceo biguttatus ; ab- 

 domen apice croceum ; alee anticce basi croceo uniguttatce, fas- 

 ciis denticulatis atris lineisque transversis undulatis albido- 

 ferrugineis, macula apicali albida croceo marginata ; posticce 

 nigro-cinerece. 



Polytela florigera, Guen. Noct. i. 114, 180. 



Hindostau. 



Genus 2. GLOTTULA. 



Corpus validum. Proboscis brevis. Palpi breves, pilosi, 

 caput perpaullo superantes ; articulus 3us brevissiraus. Antenna? 

 breves, simplices, submoniliformes. Abdomen alas posticas triente 

 superans. Pedes sat validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor par- 

 vis. Alae mediocriter latae ; anticae apud costam rectae, apice rotun- 

 datae, margine exteriore mediocriter obliquo. 



Glottula, Guenee, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. 359; Noct. i. 114. Dup. 



Cat. 

 Cocytia, Treits. 

 Noctua et Hadena, Boisd. 

 Brithys, p., Hilbn. 

 Brithya, Meig. ; Boisd. Ind. Metk. 



Body stout. Proboscis short. Palpi pilose, short, extending 

 very little beyond the head ; third joint very short. Antennae short, 

 simple, submoniliform. Abdomen extending for one-third of its 

 length beyond the hind wings. Legs rather stout; hind tibiae with 

 four short spurs. Wings moderately broad. Fore wings straight in 

 front, rounded at the tips, moderately oblique along the exterior 

 border; first, second and third inferior veins approximate at the 

 base ; fourth not very remote from the third. 



Europe. 



1. Glottula Pancratii. 



Nigro-fusca ; antennce fuscce ; abdomen albidum ; aim aritica 

 fuscce, albo conspersa?, lineis duabus transversis denticulatis 

 guttisque marginalibus nigricantibus, litura dis calif asciaque 

 vix determinata exteriore testaceis ; posticce albce, margine ex 

 parte fuscescente. 



