266 LEPIDOPTERA FEOM EAST AFRICAN ISLANDS— HOLLAND, vol. xviii. 



Genus EUPLCEA, Fabricius. 

 EUPLCEA MITRA, Moore. 

 (Plate VIII, fig. 6.) 

 Euphra mitra, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C, I, p. 127. 



There are two speciraeus from Malie, both females, whicli agree in 

 the main very well with Moore's description. The habitat of the species 

 is not given by^Ioore, bnt Kirbyinliis Synonymic Catalogne refers the 

 insect with doubt to the Seychelle.'*. If my identification is correct, as 

 I believe it to be, all doubt as to tlie locality disappears. 



Siibfainiiy y^^j^'l'^'RllV^E;, liates. 



Genus MELANITIS, Fabricius. 

 MELANITIS LEDA, Linnaeus, var. FULVESCENS, Guenee. 



Papilio leda, Lixx.Kts, Syst. Nat., I, 2, \>. 773, Xo. 1.51. — Clkrck. Icones, pi. .59, 



fig- 1- 

 Melanitis fulvesccns, Guknee, Maill. Reun., II. Lep., p. 15. — GitAXDnjiEK, Mada- 

 gascar, XVIII, p. 12, pi. II, figs. 5-7. 



All the examples are from the Seychelles — four from Mahe and one 

 from Platte Island. 



Family NYMPHALIX.E, Bates. 



Genus ATELLA, Doubleday. 

 ATELLA PHALANTA (Drury). 

 raj)iHo phahniia, Drvky, 111. Ex. Ent., I, pi. xxi, tigs. 1, 2. 



I cannot separate the specimens before me from examples from India, 

 Ceylon, Burmali, and the ]\Ialay Peninsula, from which localities there 

 are long suites in my collection. They all agree in lacking the middle 

 row of sj)ots on the median interspaces, which is found in most speci- 

 mens from the Indian region. Indian specimens have a row of spots 

 ntercalated between the row of spots near the origin of the median 

 nervules and the inner submarginal row. But some Indian si)ecimens 

 lack this row of intercalated spots, and thus agree exactly with the 

 specimens collected by Br. Abbott. The collection contains three 

 specimens from Aldabra, one from Gloriosa, and one from Mahe. 



ATELLA SEYCHELLARUM, new species. 

 (Plate VIII, fig. 11.) 



Male. — Allied to A. alcippe, Cramer, and A. madagascariensis, H. G-. 

 Smith. 



The primaries are more pointed and relatively narrower and the 

 secondaries more sharply produced at the extremity of the third 

 median nervule, than in the allied species. The distance from the anal 

 angle to the end of the third median nervule is relatively less than in 

 the other species. The ground color of the upper side of both wings is 



