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Arhopala ganesa, Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 281, pi. 96, ^ (1888). de Niceville, Butt, of India, 

 iii. p. 273 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 663, pi. A, fig. 6, <? . 

 Mackinnon and de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 383. Leslie and Evais, id. 1903, p. 674. Bethune- 

 Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 146, pi. 4, figs. 24, 24a (genitalia). Hannyngton, Journ. Bo. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. 1910, p. 366. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, greyisli-violet-blue. Forewing with the costa grey 

 along the basal half, from thence it is black, expanding rapidly to the apex where the 

 black band is very broad, and then broadly down the outer margin, but narrowing 

 slightly hind wards, a small white patch on the inner side of the apical band, being in 

 and beyond the end of the cell, and divided into two by a large black spot at the 

 end of the cell which is attached to the costal band. Hindwing with the costal space 

 broadly blackish, the outer margin with a narrow blackish-grey band, sometimes 

 macular, the spots running a little way inwards on the veins. Cilia white, with a little 

 black at the base ; no tails, the outer margin evenly rounded, the costa sinuous, its apex 

 acute and anteriorly produced. Underside. Forewing cream colour, markings dark 

 chocolate-brown, edged with darker brown, a pale sub-basal spot in the cell, a narrow 

 dark bar across the middle and a larger one at the end, joined to two spots beneath it, 

 divided by the vein, filling the bases of the two interspaces, the lower the larger, another 

 spot beneath the central cell bar, a discal series of six conjoined squarish spots of fairly 

 equal size, the upper one separated from the costa, where there are two minute pale 

 spots, the third and sixth spot shifted half outwards ; the sixth spot is a little suffused 

 and is inwards and somewhat larger than the others ; a sub-marginal row of dark 

 lunules. Ilmdwing grey, darker than the forewing, the markings slightly darker than 

 the ground colour, edged with chocolate-brown, two costal spots at the base, one above 

 the other, four sub-basal spots, the fourth slightly inwards, followed by three larger 

 ones in a line, a bottle-shaped spot at the end of the cell, and a curved series of eight 

 spots in four pairs, the fifth and seventh being a little inwards ; a sub-marginal lunular 

 line and a series of small lunular marks close to the margin, all these marking's on this 

 wing often very indistinct and difiicult to make out. 



Female. Upperside with the blue colour generally darker and brighter than in 

 the male, the black marginal bands broader, the white patches in the upper disc of the 

 forewing larger. Underside as in the male, but the markings are usually more 

 distinct. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 1^% to 1-j^ inches. 



Habitat. — Western Himalayas. 



Distribution. — It has a wide range from Kashmir on the west to Kumaon on 

 the east, 5,500 to 6,500 feet elevation, always in oak forests ; the type is marked 

 N. India. Hannyngton and Lang took it in plenty at Kumaon, Leslie and Evans in 

 Chitral, Mackinnon and de Niceville at Mussuri, and Watson in the Chin Hills ; we 



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