NYMPH ALINjE. 61 



transverse discal zigzag series of six large spots, two submarginal rows of slightly 

 smaller spots and a marginal dentate line : hindwing with slender black discoidal 

 marks and transverse discal spots, a submarginal inner row of small spots and outer 

 row of broad conical spots bordered towards anal angle by a blue line ; a marginal 

 dentate line bordered by a blue line. Female brownish-oclireous on basal area; 

 markings broader; apical area of forewing with blue-black interspaces and obliquely 

 crossed by a white band, the spots also bordered by blue. Underside : forewing 

 red on basal area, pale ochreous and greenish at apex ; male with two apical 

 series of white spots ; female as above ; other markings as on upperside : hindwing 

 greenish ochreous-brown, crossed by three black zigzag lines and a submarginal 

 line broadly bordered by silvery- white ; a discal row of spots centred with silvery- 

 white. 



Expanse, $ 2|, 2 2| inches. 



" Found in the hills from 2000 to 6000 feet, in the neighbourhood of waste grass- 

 lands and swamps. Larva feeds on Wild Violet " (Machoood). 



Genus ATELLA. 



Atella, Doubleday, Gen. Diurnal Lep. p. 165, pi. 22 (1847). 

 Phalanta, Horsfield, Desc. Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. pi. 7, f. 5 (1829). 



Forewing triangular; costa arched, apes rounded, exterior margin oblique, 

 slightly waved; costal vein extending two-thirds the margin; first subcostal branch 

 emitted immediately before end of the cell, second at some distance beyond the end, 

 third at one-third beyond, fourth and fifth at three-fourths beyond ; upper discocellular 

 bent contiguous to subcostal and thence concave below, lower slightly concave; 

 radials from angle and end of upper discocellular; upper median branch emitted 

 immediately before end of the cell, lower at nearly one-half before its end ; cell broad, 

 truncate at the end: hindwing short, broad; anterior margin somewhat straight, 

 exterior margin waved, slightly angular in the middle ; costal vein extending to 

 apex, basal spur curved outward and emitted at some distance above the base of 

 subcostal; first subcostal emitted at one-third from end of the cell; discocellulars of 

 equal length, obliquely concave, radial from their middle ; two upper median branches 

 from end of the cell, lower from opposite second subcostal ; submedian vein straight, 

 internal recurved. Body moderate ; palpi ascending, finely pilose, second joint long, 

 projecting to top of the head, third joint very slender and finely pointed ; legs 

 slender ; antennse with a spatular club. 



