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LEPID OP TEE A IJSIDICA. 
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 neighbourhood, 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. 
NISSAN GA JUNONIA (Plate 73, fig. 1, la, b, $ ?). 
Mycalesis Junonia, Butler, Catal. Satyridse, Brit. Mus. p. 146, pi. 3, fig. 4 (1868). 
Jyissanga Junonia , Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 170. 
Mycalesis (Nissanga) Junonia , Marshall and de Meeville, 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. Bindwing with or without one, or two, very indistinct minute 
ocellate spots; a subbasal tuft of white hairs overlapping the glandular patch 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. Bindicing 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 ; antennas L ipt with bright ochreous. 
Expanse, cf If, $ 11 inch. 
* 
Habitat,' —Hills of S. India. 
Distbibutiois. —Mr. S. N. Ward obtained it at Canara. Capt. R. Bayne Reed 
took it in tbe Wynaad, Malabar. Mr. G-. F. Hampson (J. As. Soc. Beng. 1888, 348) 
obtained it on tbe 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. 
