NYMPHALIN^. (GrouvASGYNKlNA.) 199 



505). " Took ifc at Poona in every month except July, August, and September, and 

 in Bombay from July to December " (Ditto, P. Z. S. 1885, 128). " We have reared 

 this butterfly in Guzerat, Mahableshwar, and Karwar, in j\larch, May, June, and 

 November. It feeds on one or more species of Flacourtia. The beautiful pupa is 

 very variable, some specimens being almost white, and some bright green ; the 

 markings are usually silver-edged or tipt with red. It hangs by the tail, but in a 

 horizontal position. It is not rare in Bombay, and is one of the commonest species 

 on the Hills in March. The larva feeds ou the young shoots, of Flacourtia montana, 

 which come up from the roots. The butterfly is one of the most sprightly and 

 characteristic species of our Hill Stations, flitting everywhere from bush to bush, 

 and even when it settles moving its wings for ever in the restless way peculiar to it " 

 (Aitken and Davidson, Journ. Bombay N. H. S. 1886, loO, id. 1890, 269). " Not a 

 common species in the Sikkim Hills. It is found throughout the warm months fi*om 

 the level of the Terai to about 5000 feet elevation. In Sikkim, the pupa is dichroic, 

 one form is green, red, and golden, the other is white, black, and golden, the latter 

 is very beautiful" (de Niceville, Sikk. Gaz. 1894, 132). "In the neighbourhood of 

 Calcutta it is a very common insect at all seasons " {id. J. A. S. Bengal, 1885, 44). 

 Mr. A. Grote reared the larva on Flacourtia sapida, at AUipur, near Calcutta, and 

 from whose drawiug, by native artist, our figure on Plate 360 is copied. In Ceylon 

 it is " generally common, but chiefly in low country. At Colombo, it is plentiful in 

 gardens during the S.W. Monsoon, and again towards the end of the year. It flies 

 quickly and alights on bushes" (Lep. Ceylon, i. 62). In Burma it is "common all 

 the year round, about the edge of streams. I have I'earel the insect from larvjB 

 feeding ou Willow- " (Major C. H. E. Adamson, List 1897, 17). Dr. N. Manders 

 found it " very common, in the Shan States, throughout the year " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 

 1890, 520). 



ATELLA ALCIPPOIDES. 



Atella Alcippe, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 151, fig. ^ (18S2). de Nice'ville, Butt, of India, ii. 

 p. 31 (18SG), nee Cramer. 



Wet-season form (Plate 361, fig. 1, la, b, cT ? )• 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside bright ochreous. Forewing with two 

 pairs of slender black wavy bars across the cell and a similar pair at end of eel) ; a 

 black broad iuner-discal irregular streak extending obliquely outward beyond the 

 cell from the costa to upper median, followed below the cell by four short narrow 

 streaks, the two upper placed between the medians, and the two lower in the sub- 

 median interspace, with an outer medial streak also beyond the latter ; beyond is a 

 medial discal row of black spjts, the two upper of which are either lunate and 



