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NISSAN GKA PATNIA (Plate 72, fig. 2, 2a, b, c, d, cJ, ? ). 
Mycalesis Patnia, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Compy., 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. 
Mycalesis (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. Forewing 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. Hindwing 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 blade scales at base of the subbasal branches. 
Underside deeply ochreous-yellow, marginal lines bright yellow, and bordered with 
black. Forewing 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. Antennas tipt 
with ochreous-red. 
Expanse, d, ?, \\ to If inch. 
