. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. roLVTELA. 457 1802. Polytela gloriosae. Bo)nhi/x gluriogce, F;ihr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 205 (1781); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 13, pi. 145. ff. 1, la ; Hiiipsn. Moths Iiid. ii. p. 168. Head and thorax blue-black; palpi at base, basal joint of antennae and a ])atch behind them, and paired spots on meso- and mctatliorax orange; tibiae and tarsi banded with orange ; abdomen black, with the terminal segment orange. Fore wing black suffused with leaden grej^ ; an orange point at base ; subbasal line double, black filled in with ,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. roLVTELA. 457 1802. Polytela gloriosae. Bo)nhi/x gluriogce, F;ihr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 205 (1781); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 13, pi. 145. ff. 1, la ; Hiiipsn. Moths Iiid. ii. p. 168. Head and thorax blue-black; palpi at base, basal joint of antennae and a ])atch behind them, and paired spots on meso- and mctatliorax orange; tibiae and tarsi banded with orange ; abdomen black, with the terminal segment orange. Fore wing black suffused with leaden grej^ ; an orange point at base ; subbasal line double, black filled in with , waved, from costa to vein 1, an orange point bej'ond it in cell; black spots surrounded with crimson above and below vein 1 before the anteuiedial line, which is double, filled in with orange, waved ; claviform more or less developed, black ; orbi- cular small, round, yellowish defined by black, sometimes with dark centre ; a waved medial line oblique from costa to below cell, where it is angled; renit'orm with crimson centre and yellowish annulus defined by black, open below and with the ground-colour extending. Fig. \2>(i.~Polijtela gloriu^e, ^. \. (From Motlis Incl. vol. ii.) into it; postmedial line double, black more or less filled in with yellowish and with orange at costa, waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some orange points bej'ond it on costa; an orange and yellowish apical patch, the sub- terminal line arising from it, consisting of yellowish lunulate marks on black patches defined on inner side by ci'imson semicircular marks, somewhat dentate at veins 4 and 3 and ex] anding into a yellowish patch at tornus; a terminal series of small black spots often with yellowish marks on their inner side ; cilia chequered black and orange. Hind wing fuscous; the cilia orange; the underside rather paler, with traces of discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hah. (I/orsJlehl, Home), 4 c?, o 5, Manpuri, 2 $, Jubbulpur (ButJer), 1
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