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NISSANGA PATNIA (Plate 72, fig. 2, 2a, b, c, d, $, ? ). 



Myealesis Patnia, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Coiiipy., i. p. 232 (1857). Butler, Catal. Satyr. 



Brit. Mus. p. 146 (1868). 

 Nissanga Patnia, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 23, pi. 12, fig. 2, 2a, ^ (1880). Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Lond. 1880, p. 170. 

 Myealesis {Nissanga) Patnia, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 131 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dusky ochreous-brown, darkest externally ; marginal 

 lines ochreous-yellow, slender ; cilia pale cinereous-brown. Foreiving with a more 

 or less developed small, longitudinally-narrow, subapical ocellus, which is black, 

 white-pupilled, and ringed with dark ochreous ; a large prominent median ocellus, 

 which is ringed with pale ochreous-yellow, the ring being broadest anteriorly ; this 

 latter ocellus more generally showing only the anterior portion, the posterior portion 

 of the yellow outer ring not being continued below the median vein, and thus giving 

 it the appearance of a squinting eye ; within the discal area is a broad medial more 

 or less triangular ochreous-yellow patch, which sometimes is restricted, and then 

 extends broadly only on the median veins. Hindioing sometimes with two minute 

 median more or less prominent ocelli, and the median vein with its branches lined 

 with ochreous-yellow ; a subbasal tuft of cinereous-white hairs radiating over or 

 overlapping a glandular patch of black scales at base of the subbasal branches. 

 Underside deeply ochreous-yellow, marginal lines bright yellow, and bordered with 

 black. Foreiving with a very small elongated white-pupilled subapical ocellus, and 

 large prominent paler ochreous lower ocellus, the latter sometimes posteriorly thickly 

 speckled with black scales ; both ocelli being outer ringed with dark ochreous-red ; 

 and then encompassed by an outer silvery band ; within the cell are three transverse 

 ochreous-red lines, and a fourth line crossing the disc, the latter line being externally 

 bordered by a silvery band ; posterior border broadly nacreous from the base to 

 discal band. Hindwing with seven ocelli, of which the upper first, fourth, and fifth 

 are small but prominent, the second, third, sixth, and seventh being minute (the 

 second and third generally being indicated by a black dot only) ; the first or apical 

 ocellus, and the fourth and fifth conjointly, are distantly encircled by an outer black 

 ring of more or less intensity, and the whole seven encompassed by an outer silvery 

 band ; crossing the wing is a discal and subbasal ochreous-red line, the former being 

 externally bordered by a silvery band. 



Female. Upperside as in male, the median ocellus on the forewing generally 

 paler bordered, and more squint-eyed. Underside as in male. Body beneath, 

 ochreous; sides of palpi, and legs beneath pale cinereous-ochreous. Antennfe tipt 

 with ochreous-red. 



Expanse, c?, ?, 1| to If inch. 



