NYMPHALID^. SATYRIN^. MYCALESIS. 131 



sized subapical ocellus, often with a smaller ocellule attached to it posteriorly, and a large 

 lower ocellus placed in the first median interspace, and extending beyond it on ' both sides, 

 ^w^zw/z^with one subanal ocellus placed in the first median interspace, variable in size but 

 usually subequal to the anterior ocellus of the forewing ; sometimes with a minute ocellule in 

 the next interspace posteriorly, and another in the interspace between the third median and 

 discoidal nervules. All these ocelli black, pupilled with white, and with a yellow iris 

 Underside brown with a greenish tinge. All but the area immediately interior to the 

 median band profusely striated with darker ; beyond the band the ground-colour is somewhat 

 lighter than the rest of the wing. A prominent common wide ochreous median band inward- 

 ly sharply defined, outwardly diffused ; beyond this a series of more or less obsolet'e minute 

 ocelli, in the forewing that in the first median interspace, and in the hindwing the three anal 

 ones usually perfect. A submarginal wavy indistinct line, and the marginal lines as above 

 Female paler above and below, and without the black-centred glandular patches on both 

 wings, and the tuft of hairs to the hindwing present in the male. 



Differs from M. rndis and M. hpcha chiefly in the large size of the posterior ocellus on 

 the upperside of the forewing, and all the ocelli on the upperside of both wings being white 

 pupilled. This is apparently a distinct species, as the eight specimens (six males and two 

 females) from which this description has been made, show but little variation. Two of the 

 specimens, those from Mussoorie, are in Colonel Lang's collection ; one male from Sikkim is in 

 Mr, Otto MoUer's collection ; the others are in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



Eleventh Group.— ^\^?,\^QK, JSroote. "Wings short. Fortioi.tg slightly arched at the 

 base ; exterior margin long, slightly convex, and nearly erect ; second subcostal emitted at end 

 of the cell. Hind-wing bluntly conical ; costa broadly convex at the base, and thence 

 oblique to the apex ; exterior margin oblique ; cell short, quadrate, broad at its end ; subcostal 

 not swollen, its first branch emitted immediately before end of the cell ; disco-cellulars erect, 

 equal in length ; two upper median branches emitted at some distance beyond the cell. Male 

 with a tuft of fine hair covering a glandular patch at base of subcostal branches. Antenna 

 gradually thickened to tip. Apical joint of /tz/// long and slender, ^jw hairy." {.Moore, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 169.) 



Only two species of this group are known, both of small size, and distinguishable at once 

 by the peculiar nature of the lower ocellus of the forewing which is placed eccentrically at the 

 lower edge of a light-coloured patch, giving it the appearance of a squinting eye. They are 

 confined to South India and Ceylon. 



Key to the Species of Nissang'a. 



B. Males with a glandular patch and tuft of hairs on hindwing only. 



c, b^. a". With the lower ocellus of forewing at the lower edge of a light coloured patch. 

 «•■'. Upperside ochreous brown ; the ocellular patch yellow. 



113. M. (Nissanga) patnia, Ceylon. 



b^. Upperside dull brown, the ocellular patch ochreous-white. 



114. M. {Nissanga) junonia. South India. 



113. Mycalesis patnia, Moore. 



M. patnia, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat Lep. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 232, n. 494 (1857), tuate ; Nissanga 

 patnia, id , Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond , 1880, p. 170 ; idem, id , Lep. Cey., p. 23, pi. xii, figs 2, 2a (1880), jnale. 



Habitat : Ceylon. 



Expanse: <?,i-62; ?, 175 inches. 



Description : "Male and Female: Upperside blackish ochreous-brown, a marginal 

 double yellow line on both wings. Foretving with a subapical longitudinally-narrow white 

 spot, a large lower black spot (or upper half of an ocellus) pupilled with white, and broadly 

 bordered on the upper half with pale ochreous-yellow, a broad medial ochreous streak from 

 thence to base of wing. Hindwing with the discal area suffused with ochreous, and in the 



