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with ttro small ocelli : Liad^-ing vitii three promment ocelE, tiie tipper one beino- 

 small, am-d all encircled by a silTery band. Body broira, pa^ witii a lateral ^rinte 

 line. 



Expanse, ^ 1|^, 2 If inelies. 



" Freqtients open ground at edges of forests, found in tLe plains and np to 

 about 3000 feet. Western and central proyinces, from May to September. FEgM 

 slow and for skort distances; settles doira aimong Iot,? ?rass and easihr eaptored'' 

 {HuUhumi). 



Genus NISSANGA- 



Forewing stort, somewiat narrow, costa arched at base, apex actrfce, exfeerior 

 margin short, carved, posterior angle acute, second subcostal brancli emitted at end 

 of the cell; hindwing short, costa convex at base and thence oblique to apex, 

 exterior margin oblique, slightly curved, anal angle convex, first subcostal branch 

 emitted immediately before end of the cell, diseoceliulars erect and equal in length, two 

 upper median branches on a foot-stalk some distance beyond end of the eelL Male 

 with an erectile tuft of JBne hairs springing from base of tbe oeH and covering a 

 small glandular patch at fork of the snbcostal branches. 



inSSAHGA PM¥IA (Plate 12, Fio. 2, 2a). 

 M^calem Patma, Moore, CataL Xiep. Mas. Ikat India CompaBj, L p. 232 (1857). 



Male and female. TJpperside blackish ochreous-brown, a marginal double yellow 

 line on both wings : forewing with a subapical longitudinally-narrow white spot, a 

 large lower black spot (or upper half of an oceEus) pupiHed with white and broadly 

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

 from thence to base of wing : hindwing with the discal area suffused with ochreous, 

 and in the male with two minute discal ocelli. Underside ochreous-yellow, marginal 

 lines bright yellow : forewing with an elongated subapical white spot and large 

 prominent lower ocellus, the lower portion of which is suffused with black; five 

 transverse lines commencing from the base, and circle round the subapical spot and 

 lower ocellus ochreous-red ; a silvery band across the middle of the wing and another 

 round the upper spot and lower ocellus : hindwing with a subapical and two subanal 

 white spots distantly encircled by a black line and then by a red line, each again 

 enclosed by a silvery band; a subbasal silvery band and two red lines. Body brown, 

 palpi at the side and legs beneath greyish. 



Expanse, ^ If, ? If inches. 



"Very common, and easy to capture. Taken at GaUe and Kandy " {Capt.Wade). 



