216 • LEPIDOPTERA ISDIGA. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



Distribution. — According to Captain Wade (Lep. Ceylon, i. 23), this species is 

 "very common at Galle and Kandy, and easy to capture." Mr. B. E. Green 

 obtained it at Pundaloya and neighbourliood, in the Western Central District, in 

 August and October. Major J. W. Yerbury has also taken specimens at Trincomali. 



Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate 72, figs. 2a, b, represent a 

 male and female from Galle, fig. 2 and 2c, a male from Pundaloya, and fig. 2d, a 

 female from Trincomali. 



NISSANGA JUNONIA (Plate 73, fig. 1, la, b, ^ ? ). 

 Mycalesis Junonia, Butler, Catal. Satyridae, Brit. Mus. p. 146, pi. 3, fig. 4 (1868). 

 Nissanga Junonia, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond. 1880, p. 170. 



Mycalesis {Nissanga) Junonia, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 132, pi. 16, 

 fig. 57, S (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dusky-brown, darkest exteriorly ; marginal lines pale 

 ochreous; cilia cinereous. Forewing with a minute subapical white-pupilled ocellate 

 black spot, and a large black median ocellus, with minute white pupil and broadly 

 circled round its upper half only with white, thus giving it much the appearance of 

 a squinting-eye. Hindtoing with or without one, or two, very indistinct minute 

 ocellate spots; a subbasal tuft of ivliite hairs overlapping the glandular jjatcli of 

 scales. Underside pale cinereous olivescent-brown, darker exteriorly ; marginal 

 lines bright ochreous and prominent. Forewing with three subbasal and a discal 

 slender transverse dark ochreous-red lines ; a minute slender subapical ocellus, and 

 a large white-ringed median ocellus, the latter with its lower half brown speckled, 

 and both ocelli with an outer dark ochreous-brown ring and encompassed by a dull 

 silvery band. Hindwing with a subbasal and a discal transverse dark ochreous line, 

 and seven minute ocelli, the upper or apical and the fourth and fifth conjointly 

 distantly encircled by a dark ochreous-brown line, the whole seven again encom- 

 passed by a dull silvery band; above the anal angle is a bright ochreous-red patch. 

 Female. Upperside and underside as in male ; the subanal ochreous patch on the 

 hindwing beneath less prominent. Body and legs beneath, and sides of palpi 

 cinereous ; antennee tipt with bright ochreous. 



Expanse, <S1^, ? H inch. 



Habitat.' — Hills of S. India. 



DiSTKiBDTiois. — Mr. S. N. Ward obtained it at Canara. Capt. R. Bayne Reed 

 took it in the Wynaad, Malabar. Mr. G. F. Hampson (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1888, 348) 

 obtained it on the Nilgiris, being there confined to the southern and western slopes, 

 at 2000 to 3000 feet, where it is common in heavy forest. Mr. H. Fergusson (Butt. 



