62 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLOJSf. 



ATELLA PHALANTA (Plate 31, Fig. 1, la). 



Papilio Phalanta, Drurj, Illust. Exot. Ent. i. pi. 21, fig. 1, 2 (1773). 



Atella Phalanta, Doubleday and Westvv. Gen. D. Lep. p. 167; Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. 



p. 152, pi. 5, f. 7. 

 Papilio ColumUna, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 238, f. A, B; iv. pi. 337, f. D, E (1782). 

 Phalanta Columbina, Horsfield, Desc. Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. (1828), pi. 7, f. 5. 



Male. Upperside briglat yellowisti-ochreous : forewing ■with two black transverse 

 short sinuous marks within the cell, a similar darker mark at its end, a streak from 

 the costa beyond and followed beneath by an oblique series of four spots, a discal 

 transverse interrupted similar line and a row of round spots, a submarginal confluent 

 double sinuous line and marginal triangular spots : hindwing with an indistinct 

 slender black lunule within the cell, two at its end, a transverse discal interrupted 

 lunular line, a discal row of oval spots, two slender submarginal sinuous lines, and 

 marginal triangular spots. Female differs only in the markings being slightly larger, 

 and the discal lunular line having a pale macular outer border. Underside very pale 

 ochreous, suffused externally with purple ; indistinctly marked as upperside. 



Expanse, $ 2, ? 2^ inches. 



Larva purple-brown; head armed with two delicate branched spines, each 

 segment with two dorsal rows of similar spines and two lateral rows of shorter 

 spines. Feeds on Flacourtia, Salix, &c. Pupa pale green, tubercular along the 

 back. 



"Generally common, but chiefly in low country" (Mackwood). 

 "Plentiful at Colombo, in gardens during the S.W. Monsoon, and again 

 towards the end of the year. Flies quickly and alights on bushes " [Hutchison). 

 " Taken at Kandy " {Wade). 



Genus CIRROCHROA. 



Cirwchroa, Doubleday, Gen. Diurnal Lep, p. 157, pi. 21, f. 2 (1847). 



Wings ample, short : forewing triangular, costa arched, apex slightly truncate 

 or convex; exterior margin oblique, slightly concave below the apex, uneven; costal 

 vein extending to half length of the margin ; first subcostal branch emitted at some 

 distance before end of the cell, second close to its end, third at half length beyond 

 the cell, fourth and fifth at one-fifth from the third ; discocellulars inclined obliquely 

 inward, upper slightly bent near to subcostal and very deeply concave below, lower 

 slightly oblique, radials from angle and end of the upper; cell short, very broad; 

 two upper median branches emitted at a short distance beyond end of the cell, lower 



