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58. (2.) Atella Columbina, (Cramer). 



Pcqjilio Culumhina, Cram., Pap. Exot., iii. pi 238, ff. A, B {nee iv. pi. 337, 



IF. D, -£. = Phalanta, Dru.) (1782). 

 Painlio Columhina, Fab., Eiit. Syst., iii. 1, p. 148, 11. 453 (1793). 

 Atella Eurytis, Doubl., Gen. Diurn. Lep., p. 167, pi. 22, f. 3 (1848). 

 Atella Phalanta, var., Trimen, Ehop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 115 (1862). 



Uxp. al., 2 in. 2-6 lin. 



^ Warm yellow-ochreous inclining to fulvous, spotted with Mack; 

 Idnd-margins with three strongly -marhcd himdated and festooned UacJc 

 streaks. Fore-unvg : markings as in A. Phalantha, Drury, except in 

 the following particulars, viz., transverse streaks in and at extremity of 

 discoiclal cell finer, better defined, less irregular, — those at extremity 

 farther apart ; spots of elbowed transverse row below median nervure 

 thinner, more elongate, — in some specimens (Eurytis, Doubl.) partly 

 or all but the uppermost one obsolete ; spots of discal row larger ; 

 submarginal inner festooned streak more sharply angulated between 

 nervules; contiguous subtriangular markings on hind-marginal edge 

 completely confluent ; the streak between them and festooned streak 

 more strongly marked and distinctly lunulated. Hind-wing : differing 

 as follows from that of A. Phcdantha, viz., no markings before middle 

 (except very faintly in one example) ; spots of discal row larger, — in 

 some examples much larger and suffused ; festooned streak and follow- 

 ing hind-marginal streaks presenting the same differences as shown in 

 fore-wing. Under side. — All the markings better defined than in 

 Phalantha ; all the spots of discal roio in both ivings more or less con- 

 spicuously Hack, — in some examples much enlarged. Fore-iving : besides 

 the very large fifth spot of discal row, the fourth is considerably enlarged 

 and conspicuous. Hind-iving : transverse streaks before and about 

 middle more regular and continuous, — the space between them paler 

 than basal area ; outer streak immediately folloioed hy a rather wider 

 interrup)ted glistening -ivhitish one, tinged ivith violaceous ; spots of discal 

 row distinctly ocellate, with broad rings of fulvous, — a fifth ocellus (not 

 quite complete) between first median nervule and submedian nervure. 



$ Paler, duller ; tlte hlack markings more or less suffused (especially 

 the cellular streaks of the fore-wing and the costal markings beyond 

 them). Fore-wing : a brownish-gj^ey cloud over basal region. Hind- 

 wing : fulvous rings of spots of discal row distinctly perceptible. 

 Under side. — Paler ; the violaceous clouding more or less inclining to 

 silvery. 



This very near ally of A. Phcdantha (Drury) is to be distinguished 

 from it by the characters pointed out in the above comparative descrip- 

 tion, of which the most striking and apparent are — (i) the great, or 

 very great, development of the black spots of the discal row ; (2) the 

 deeper colour of the male ; (3) the dull and pale colour of the female ; 

 and (4) the broken whitish streak on the under side of the hind- wing 

 outwardly edging the median transverse fulvous streak. The entirely 

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