RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 17S 



black ; the outer margin also is broadly black, preceded l)y a contiguous waved fascia, which is dellectiid 

 to costa at the lower discoidal nervule, thus enclosing two ochraceous spots ; between these and end of 

 cell the wing is crossed by a waved series of small spots placed between the ncrvules ; the cell is crossed 

 by three pairs of linear fascia3, and is followed by a broader oblicpie fascia terminating at first median 

 nervule, aud beneath cell are four linear markings, two near base, the third longest and broken, the fourth 

 smallest between the first and second median nervules. Posterior wings with a liroad outer black margin, 

 preceded by a narrower waved and sinuated submarginal fascia; outer discal spots as in A. phalanta, 

 but the upper one very minute ; on inner side of these and extending from about the extremities of the 

 submarginal fascia is a narrow linear and somewhat broken fascia ; other basal markings as in the 

 preceding species, but more distinct. Wings beneath marked generally as above, but with corresponding 

 differences as in A. phalanta. 



Exp. wings, S' 44 to 46 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India; Sylhet (coll. Moore). — Andaman Islands; Port Blair (Wood-Mas. & de 

 Nic.) — Nicobar Islands ; Katschall (Wood-Mas. & de Nic.) — Burma ; Tavoy (coll. Moore). — Malay Peninsula ; 

 Penang (coll. Gosse) ; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.^ 



I am indebted to Mr. P. H. Gosse for the first iutimatiou of this species occurring in our 

 fauna, and his Penang specimen is here figured. I have since received it from Province 



Wellesley. 



aa. Outer manjin of posterior wings prdtu'uieiiihi cdtnlatc. 

 3. Atella sinha. (Tab. X., fig. 8 <? .) 



Teiiiius Si'iilid, KoUar, Hug. Kaschm. iv. 2, p. 438 (1848). 



Atellu Sinlia, Butl. Traus. Lnm. Soc. sor. 2, Zuol. vul. i. p. 544, ii. 2 (1877); Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, 

 p. 828. 



Male. Anterior wings above ochraceous ; a dark waved fascia commencing at costa beyond end 

 of cell, concavely extending to first median nervule, and then obliquely detlexed beneath cell to near inner 

 margin ; within the fascia the colour is brownish, the cell being crossed by four narrow black fasciie ; the 

 apex more or less suffused with blackish, either totally and enclosing some ochraceous spots, as in the 

 specimen figured, or exhibiting two moderately well-detined oblique fasciae ; outer margin broadly blackish, 

 preceded by a narrow submarginal line of the same colour, aud with four small blackish spots, of which 

 three — always visible — are placed two above and one beneath the second median nervule, and the fourth — 

 sometimes fused in the apical coloration as in the specimen figured — situate between the discoidal nervules. 

 Posterior wings of the same hue as the anterior, but with the outer third brownish, inwardly marked by a 

 series of small dark spots placed between the nervules, and with broad marginal and submarginal dark 

 fasciae, between which the colour is narrowly pale ochraceous. Anterior wings beneath with the basal 

 dark coloration more violaceous, the cell pale, but dark between the narrow black fascite, all the dark 

 markings much paler, being brownish or violaceous, and with a series of distinct pale lunulate spots 

 crossing the wing before the dark spots. Posterior wings beneath more or less violaceous, crossed by 

 two central and much-waved narrow and darker fasciae, between the upper .portions of which the 

 colour is pale ochraceous, and both of which are more or less outwardly margined with pearly greyish ; 

 a greyish subquadrate spot in cell margined on three of its sides with dark violaceous, the outer discal 

 spots margined with rufous, but with the one above the first median nervule obsolete ; outer margins pale, 

 as on anterior wings. Body above concolorous with wings, beneath greyish or very pale ochraceous. 



Exp. wings, <? 56 to 63 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India ; Nepaul (Brit. Mus.) — Burma ; Moulmein (Brit. Mus.) — Malay Peninsula ; 

 Penang (coll. Gosse). — Province Wellesley (colls. Dist. and Sauer) ; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.) — Bauca* 

 — Sumatra (Forbes— coll. Dist.). 



* Collected by M. Teysmaun (Pet. Nouv. Eut. vi. p. 404 (1874). 



