ATELLA. 413 



wing : basal half with three or four transverse rows of obscure 

 spots, better defined anteriorly, a discal series of four spots, a 

 postdiscal series of slender lunules, a sub- 

 terminal sinuous line, and a row of terminal 

 spots as on the fore wing. Underside paler 

 ochraceous, the markings much as on the 

 ipperside but fainter and paling to reddish 

 brown ; the terminal spots of the two discal 

 rows on the fore wing large, conspicuous 

 and black. Fore wing stained with pale 

 purple between the transverse lines across 

 the cell and beyond its apex, also broadly 

 along the terminal margin in the middle 

 of the wing. Hind wing: the outer half 

 more or less suffused with pale purple. 

 Fig. 75. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark 



Atella phalantha. \ . ochraceous ; thorax and abdomen beneath 



whitish. 

 Exp. 6 2 50-63 mm. (2-2-5"). 



Hab. Nearly throughout Continental India ; Ceylon ; Assam ; 

 Burma ; Tenasserim ; extending to China, Japan and the Malayan 

 Subregion. 



Larva. " Cylindrical, moderately thick, very smooth .... bears 

 six longitudinal rows of branched spines. The head is unarmed. 

 The colour varies from dark brown to pale yellowish -green, with a 

 white or yellowish spot at the base of each spine. It feeds on one 

 or more species of Flacourtia." (Davidson Sf Aitken.) 



Pupa. " A beautiful green with a subdorsal series of five acutely 

 pointed tubercles, marked with red between each pair of very 

 small blunt ones, the upper edge of the wing-covers and a spot 

 on each side of the head also marked with red." (de Niceville.) 



" Colour very variable, some specimens being almost white and 

 some bright green, the markings are usually silver-soled, or tipped 

 with red." (Davidson Sf Aitken.') 



417. Atella alcippe, Cramer (Papilio), Pap. Exot. iv, 1782, pi. 389, 

 figs. G, H. 



Race alcippoides. 



Atella alcippe, de N. (nee Cramer) Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 31. 

 Atella alcippoides, Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1900, p. 199, pi. 361, figs. 1, 



1 o-l d, S 2 • 

 Atella fraterna, Moore, t. c. 1900, p. 201, pi. 361, figs. 2, 2 a, 



2b, <??. 



Race ceylonica. 



Atella ceylonica, Manders, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiv, 1903, p. 716. 



Race alcippoides, Moore. — 6. Upperside ochraceous yellow, 

 not so bright as in A. phalantha. Fore wing : basal third slightly 

 dusky ; cell crossed by three sinuous irregular black lines and a 

 bar, a black bar also along the discocellulars ; this last, the bar in 

 the cell and the middle one of the three transverse lines continued 



