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The following species of the alcipjje group of the genus Atella have 

 been described. I have arranged the species chronologically. 



(J.) Fapilio alcippe^ Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. iv., p. 207, pi. 

 ccclxxxix, figs. G., 'B.., female (1782). 



Habitat : Araboina {Cramer); Ceram ; Batcbian ; Gilolo (Wallace) ; 

 Arabonia ; Batjan ; Halmaheira {Pagenstecher) ; Great Cerum (Ribbe) ; 

 Kaisir Wilhelmsland, German New Guinea (Hagen) ; Moluccas ; 

 Halmaheira {^Fruhstorfer) ; Amboina ; Ke Isles; Moluccas (Jioo?'e); 

 Bhatjan ; Halmaheira {coll. de Niciville). 



(2.) Atella arruana, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monatsch., vol. iv, p. 236, 

 n. 84 (1860). 



Habitat : Arru Isles {Felder) ; Aru Isles ; Mysol {Wallace) ; Aru 

 Isles {Ribbe) ; New Guinea {Kirsch) ; Aru Isles [Fruhstorfer) Aru Isles 

 {coll. de Niciville.) 



(3.) Alella celebensis, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 18S9, pp. 

 343, 344. 



Habitat : Macassar in Celebes (Wallace) ; Celebes {Hopper) ; S. W. 

 Celebes {Snellen) ; North and South Celebes {Fruhstorfer), 



I have not seen this species. 



(4.) Atella ce7'vina, Butler,- Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876, p. 767, 

 pi. Ixxvii, fig. 5, female. 



Habitat : Yule Island off New Guinea {Butler) ; Hattam, Kapaur, 

 Dorey — all in New Guinea {Fruhstorfer). 



I have not seen this species, which is apparently nearest to A, 

 arruana, Felder, 



(5.) Atella alcippe, var. pallidior, Staudinger, Iris, vol. ii, p. 48 

 (1889). 



Habitat: Palawan Isle in -the Philippines ; Sikhim ; Andaman, 

 Isles • Malacca ; Borneo ; Philippine Isles (Staudinger). 



Under this name I would place the A. alcippe of Semper, Schmett 

 Philipp., p. 127, n. 149, pi. xx, figs. 8, male; 9, female (UHB), p. 344, 

 n. 149, (1892), from North-East Luzon, Central Luzon, Cebu 

 Camiguin de Mindanao, East Mindanao, Mindoro — all in the Philippine 

 Isles ; Salu Isles {Semper) • the A. alcippe of Distant, Ehop, Malay,, 

 p. 174, n. 2, (with a woodcut of a male (1882), from Sylhet ; the 

 Andaman Isles j Barma ; Tavoy i Penang and Province Wellesley 

 {Distant) the A. alcippe of de Niceville, Butt, of lud., Burmah and 

 Ceylon, vol. ii, p. 31, m. 315 (i88S), from Sikhim ; Sylhet ; Mergui, 



