Mycalesis patnia
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| name = Glad-eye bushbrown
| image = Mycalesis junonia-Thekkady.jpg
| taxon = Mycalesis patnia
| authority = (Moore, 1857){{cite book|last1=Moore|first=Frederic|author-link1=Frederic Moore |last2=Horsfield|first2=Thomas|author-link2=Thomas Horsfield|title=A catalogue of the lepidopterous insects in the museum of the Hon. East-India company|date=1857|publisher=W.H. Allen and Co.|location=London|page=232|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42363#page/258/mode/1up|access-date=30 April 2018}}
| synonyms = Mycalesis junonia Butler, 1868
}}
Mycalesis patnia, the glad-eye bushbrown, is a satyrid butterfly found in southern India and Sri Lanka.{{Cite book|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260|title=A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India|last1=R.K.|first1=Varshney|last2=Smetacek|first2=Peter|publisher=Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi|year=2015|isbn=978-81-929826-4-9|location=New Delhi|pages=175|doi=10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164}}{{Cite web|url=http://ftp.funet.fi/index/Tree_of_life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/satyrinae/mycalesis/|title=Mycalesis Hübner, 1818 - Bushbrowns|last=Savela|first=Markku|website=Lepidoptera - Butterflies and Moths|access-date=2018-03-18}}
Description
File:Gald eye bush brown.jpg, Sri Lanka]]
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Upperside: The male has a dark umber-brown ground colour slightly suffused with ochraceous. Forewings and hindwings with bright ochraceous-yellow, slender sub-terminal and terminal lines; cilia pale brown. Forewing with a large median and a much smaller subapical white-centred black ocellus, each with an orange-yellow iris, the upper portion of the iris round the median ocellus very broad, the lower incomplete and a more or less triangular orange-yellow discal patch. Hindwing uniform, with two very small fulvous-ringed black ocelli.
Underside of male deep ochraceous yellow, subterminal and terminal line as on the upperside; forewing and hindwing crossed near base by a darker ochraceous-yellow line, followed by a silvery discal band, beyond which there are two ocelli as on the upperside, but each encircled also by an outer silvery ring; and on the hindwing a curved series of seven similar ocelli having a silvery band bordering them on both sides, the third and fourth ocelli from tornus together and the apical ocellus by itself placed on a brighter ochraceous patch encircled with black. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown, somewhat ochraceous beneath. Sex-mark is present in one morph.
The female is similar to the male but more strongly suffused with ochraceous on the upperside; the orange-yellow patch on the forewing larger, spreading to the base of the wing and no ocelli on the hindwing. Underside as in the male, but of a brighter ochraceous yellow; basal area of both forewing and hindwing crossed by two darker yellow bands, and the discoidal cell of the forewing with an interior loop of the same colour.{{Source-attribution|sentence=yes|{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/butterfliesvolii00bing#page/66/mode/2up/|title=Fauna of British India. Butterflies Vol. 1|last=Bingham|first=Charles Thomas|author-link=Charles Thomas Bingham|year=1905|pages=66–67}}}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103554#page/233/mode/1up|title=Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. I|last=Moore|first=Frederic|author-link=Frederic Moore|publisher=Lovell Reeve and Co.|year=1890|location=London|pages=215–217}}
The southern Indian race M. p. junonia{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36601#page/156/mode/1up|title=Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera of the Family Satyridæ in the Collection of the British Museum|last=Butler|first=Arthur Gardiner|author-link=Arthur Gardiner Butler|publisher=British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology|year=1868|pages=146}} is identical to the nominate race from Sri Lanka but on the upperside is a duller brown; the median ocellus on the forewing encircled with pure white; no discal patch, or merely faint traces of one. Underside: markings similar to those in M. p. patnia, but altogether of a duller and browner shade, without any general ochraceous tint, a large bright ochraceous spot posteriorly on the hindwing in the male. The median ocellus on the forewing broadly encircled with white. Male sex-marks are seen in one morph.
It has a wingspan of 42–54 mm.
File:2011 12 22 9999 4 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240461182).jpg|Egg
File:2011 12 25 9999 351 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240461026).jpg|Larva (first instar)
File:2011 12 27 9999 47 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240460810).jpg|Larva (later instar)
File:2012 01 05 9999 243 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240460558).jpg|Larva (later instar)
File:2012 01 30 9999 34 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240445744).jpg|Larva (final instar)
File:2012 02 04 9999 4 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240445192).jpg|Pupation
File:2012 02 08 9999 11 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240444936).jpg|Chrysalis (dorsal view)
File:2012 02 08 9999 13 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240444706).jpg|Chrysalis (ventral view)
File:2012 02 08 9999 4 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240459878).jpg|Chrysalis (lateral view)
File:2012 02 13 9999 1 1 Mycalesis patnia (7240459584).jpg|Chrysalis (lateral view)
File:Mycalesis junonia.jpg|Imago (side view)
File:Mycalesis junonia Butler, 1868 – Malabar Glad-eye Bushbrown from Parambikulam (2).jpg|Imago (dorsal view)
File:Glad-eye bushbrown.jpg|Open wing