. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. POLYTELA. 457 1802. Poly tela gloriosas. Bombi/x glorioscB, Fabr. Sp. Iii^. ii. p. 205 (1781); Moore, Lep. Cevl. iii. p. is, pi. 145. ff. 1, la; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 168. Head and thorax blue-black: palpi at base, basal joint of anteiinfB and a ])atch behind them, and paired sjiots on meso- and metathoras orange; tibi* and tarsi banded with orange ; abdomen black, with the terminal segment orange. Fore wing black suffused with leaden grey ; an orange point at base ; subbasal line double, black filled in with ora
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. POLYTELA. 457 1802. Poly tela gloriosas. Bombi/x glorioscB, Fabr. Sp. Iii^. ii. p. 205 (1781); Moore, Lep. Cevl. iii. p. is, pi. 145. ff. 1, la; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 168. Head and thorax blue-black: palpi at base, basal joint of anteiinfB and a ])atch behind them, and paired sjiots on meso- and metathoras orange; tibi* and tarsi banded with orange ; abdomen black, with the terminal segment orange. Fore wing black suffused with leaden grey ; an orange point at base ; subbasal line double, black filled in with orange, waved, from costa to vein 1, an orange point beyond it in cell; black spots surrounded with crimson above and below vein 1 before the antcmedial 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; reniform with crimson centre and yellowish annulus defined by black, open below and with the ground-colour extending. Fig. 130.—Poli/tela gloriosce, (S. \. (From Moths 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, exciu'ved to vein 4, then incurved,'Bome orange points beyond 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 crimson 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. Punjab {Horsfield, Home), 4 c?, 5 2 , Manpuri, 2 $ , Jubbulpur (Bntler), 1 $ ; G
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