clicns. 
gloriosae. 
florigera. 
chryso&pila. 
albiceps. 
86 POLYTELA; CERAPTERYX. By W. Warren. 
25. Genus: I*olytela Guen. 
Tongue slight; frons with rounded prominence and corneous plate below it; palpi short, porrect, 
thickly haired; antennae of <$ ciliated; thorax and abdomen smooth, without crests; forewing elongate; 
the apex blunt; the termen obliquely curved; the markings bright coloured. Type P. gloriosae F. A 
small Indian genus. 
P. cUensFldr. (= orientalis limps.) (11 a). $ Forewing pale pink; a black patch at base with orange 
dot upon it; lines black; inner line oblique, waved, interrupted at the veins; a black spot before it oil costa; 
outer line interrupted, marked on costa by a black spot and below vein 3 by an incurved wavy mark; 
subterminal black, waved, more or less interrupted, forming a black patch on costa with yellow dot on it; ex- 
curved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, and partly connected with black spots on termen; terminal line 
black; fringe black and orange; no claviform stigma; orbicular a black dot; reniform black, with crimson 
centre, preceded by black patch on costa; hindwing pinkish white. $ Forewing with black on base of inner 
margin and a larger patch on costa before middle; orbicular absent; outer line marked at middle; the black 
at termen more extensive; fringe blacker; hindwing fuscous, with a whitish patch in below and beyond 
lower part of cell; fringe chequered, fuscous and yellowish. Larva on Pancratium tortuosum. 
The type of orientalis, a $, queried from the Nilgiri bills, Madras; also recorded from Aden. 
P. gloriosae W. (11 a, b). Forewing black glossed with leaden grey; an orange dot at base; lines double, 
black, filled in with orange; inner line waved, preceded above and below vein 1 by black spots surrounded 
with crimson; outer line filled in with yellowish and at costa with orange; subterminal line formed of 
yellowish lunulate marks on black patches edged internally by semicircular crimson marks, ending at apex 
and tornus in a rounded patch of yellow and orange; a series of terminal black spots, often inter¬ 
nally edged with yellowish; fringe black and orange; claviform stigma black; orbicular small, round, yellowish 
edged with black, and sometimes with a black centre; reniform crimson at centre with yellowish an¬ 
nulus defined by black; hindwing fuscous; the fringe orange. Larva purplish brown, irrorated with silvery 
blue; head orange red; on second segment an orange dorsal patch; on third and fourth and last 3 segments 
subdorsal orange patches with black spots on them; a dorsal row of yellow spots on hinder part of 
segments, the last three with smaller spots on the front of each segment; a subdorsal row of orange 
spots; a lateral series of yellow spots on both margins; feeding on Gloriosa and Amaryllis. This seems 
to be exclusively an Indian species, occurring at Manpuri and Jubbulpur in the Punjab, at Ganjam, 
Bombay, Canara, Madras, and Ceylon. 
P. florigera Guen. (= inclyta Walk.) (11 b). Forewing black suffused with leaden purple; lines black 
filled in with ochreous; inner oblique and waved, preceded above and below vein 1 by black patches 
defined by reddish; outer waved, bent at vein 4; subterminal line formed of ochreous lunules and black dentate 
marks with reddish suffusion on their inside, rising from a yellow apical spot; black terminal lunules; fringe 
black with orange dots at base; claviform stigma small, black; orbicular and reniform with reddish centres 
and ochreous annuli edged with black, the former round, the latter 8-shaped; a waved black median line; 
hindwing fuscous black. A south Indian species only, recorded from Canara, Bombay, and from Belgaum 
and Bangalore, Madras. 
P. chrysospila Walk. (11 b). Forewing black suffused with leaden blue, leaving the lines black and 
ill-defined: subbasal and inner lines connected by streaks on costa, below cell, and on inner margin; 
reniform a lunulate or quadrate yellow spot; outer line excurved above, incurved below vein 4; hindwing 
fuscous black. The type from Java; also recorded from the Karen Hills, Burma. 
26. Genus: Cerapteryx Curt. 
Tongue well developed; frons smooth; palpi short, porrect, hairy below; antennae of G bipec- 
tinate to apex; thorax and abdomen without crests; pectus and venter hairy, the abdomen with lateral tufts; 
$ always larger and generally paler than G- Larva (of the European species)'feeding in spring and summer 
on the roots of grasses, sometimes causing great damage. Type C. graminis L. from Europe. 
C. albiceps Hmps. (11 b). Forewing white with a few black scales sprinkled over it, more thickly 
sprinkled towards termen; a dark patch above base of inner margin; inner line oblique and straight from costa 
to median vein, its extremity booked on outer side, continued as a curved band from submedian fold to inner 
margin; connected by a curved streak above vein 1 with outer line, which is represented by a black costal 
spot, a lunule beyond the cell, and a line from vein 2 to inner margin; orbicular and reniform stigmata indic¬ 
ated by a few black scales and a striga on discocellular; a triangular patch on costa before apex with some 
white dots on it; a small wedge shaped patch on inner margin before tornus; fringe white and fuscous; 
hindwing fuscous, the fringe white. Described from a single $ from Sikkim, N. India. Scarcely a Cerapteryx ; 
