NYMPHALIN^. (Group ARaYKNINJ..) 201 



March and May, also from the Khasias and Perak, and of the dry-season form from 

 the Karen Hills, December, Beeling, Upper Tenasserim, and East Pegu. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 361, figs. 1, la, b, are from a male 

 and female wet-season, form, and figs. 1, c, d, from a male of the dri/-season form. 



ATELLA FRATERNA (Plate 3G1, fig. 2, 2a, h, ^ ? )■ 



Male and female. Upperside somewhat jDaler than in ^1. Alclppoides. Markings 

 similar, except that on the foreinng the inner-discal oblique costal streak is very 

 broad anteriorly and decreasingly attenuated hiudward ; and there is a medial-discal 

 sinuous series of marks ; the outer-discal lower spots are smaller, narrower, and are 

 disposed obliquely outward ; the marginal ochreous luuules are more dentate in 

 shape. On the Jtindiving, the medial-discal black line is more regular in its coarse 

 and less sinuous. Underside paler yellowish-ochreous than in Alcippoides ; outer 

 markings more distinctly bordered by pale violaceous-grey. 



Expanse, S 9 I^-q to 2^q inches. 



Habitat. — Nicobar Islands. 



DiSTEiBUTiox. — Occurs on Little Nicobar, Nankauri, Teressa, and Kutschall, 

 Nicobar Islands. 



Indo-Malayax Species. — Atella Luzonica (A. Phalanta, Semper, Reis. Phil. Lep. 

 p. 126, pi. A, fig. 6, larva and impa). Rahifaf. Luzon; Mindoro ; Philippines. — 

 Atella Semperi (A. Alcippe, Semper, I.e. p. 127, pi. 20, fig. 8, 9, ^ ? (1888). 

 Habitat. Luzon; Philippines. — Afclla paUkllor, Staudinger, Deuts. Ent. Zeit. 1889, 

 p. 48. Habitat. Palawan. — Atella Alrijipe (Pap. Alcippe, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. 

 pi. 389, fig. G, H (1782). Herbst, Nat. Ins. ix. pi. 257, fig. 5, 6. A distinct species. 

 Underside with the outer-discal and the two submarginal sinuous lines black and 

 prominently white bordered ; the outer-discal row of spots on both wings are also 

 prominently black. Habitat. Amboina ; Ke Island ; Moluccas. 



Genus ISSORIA. 



Issoria, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schniett. p. 31 (1816); id. Zutriige, iv. p. 32, fig. 735-6(1832). Sempet, 



Eeis. Phil. Lep. p. 110 (1888). 

 Atella (sect. 2), FelJer, Neues Lep. p. 9 (1864). 



Imago. — Male. Forcwimj triangular ; costa arched, apex obtusely rounded, 

 exterior margin very oblique, even, posterior angle obtusely pointed ; costal vein 

 extending to fully half the margin ; fir.st subcostal branch emitted before end of 

 the cell, second at some distance beyond the end, third at one-third beyond and 

 ending before the apex, fourth and fifth at two-thirds ; cell rather narrow ; upper 

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