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interrupted : secondaries greyish brown, with four interrupted bands, these are of the 

 ground-colour, but darker at the edges, and bordered with whitish ; brownish sub- 

 marginal line wavy, bordered with whitish, and followed by a few brownish linear dots 

 on the margin ; fringes pale grey, preceded by a darker line. Expanse 32 mm. 



"At the time I described the above form of A. ganesa, I was not acquainted with 

 Pryer's loomisi ; I now find that the latter and my var. seminigra are identical ; as, 

 however, Pryer's name is the earlier one, it must stand for the Japanese and Chinese 

 form of the Indian A. ganesa. The type loomisi was taken at Kanozan, in Kadnoa, 

 Japan ; I received one example from Chang-yang, Central China, and another from 

 Chow-pin-sa, Western China." — Leech, I. c. 



I have not seen a specimen of this insect. 



Abhopala arvina (Hevvitson). 



Amblypodia arvina Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep., Lye. p. 12, pi. ii. figs. 16 & 17, $ (1865). 

 Arhopala abue de Niceville, Joum. Bomb! Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. ix. p. 281, pi. O. fig. 26, <J (1895). 



Ilab. Java, Assam, Tenasserim. 



Expanse, 6 , 39 mm. 



6 . Upperside : both wings intense ultramarine-blue ; primaries with very fine black 

 margins ; secondaries with the costa broadly, posterior margin very finely black, 

 abdominal fold blackish. Underside : both wings brown, suffused with lustrous 

 purplish, entirely as to the secondaries, but only as to the upper two-thirds in the 

 primaries; spots browner, with paler purplish edgings. Primaries with three discal 

 increasing spots, the first two obscure, below which the submedian area is darker, 

 below the third there is another spot ; transverse band of moderately even width, 

 outwardly oblique for the first four spots, followed by two spots below each other, 

 shifted inwards ; the band continuous, a small detached spot beneath the band is below 

 the submedian nervule ; submarginal lunular row rather obscure, followed by a 

 marginal interrupted narrow band. Secondaries entirely purplish with reddish spots, 

 four near the base, followed by three rather larger ones ; cell closed by an elongated 

 curved spot, below which is a triangular one ; on the costa are two spots below each 

 other, the lower one being much larger than the first and touching both the elongated 

 spot and the upper spot of the transverse band, which consists of three pairs 

 of spots, each pair being quite confluent, the second pair is shifted inwards, the third 

 pair well inwards, the latter spot of which is almost divided into two and touches the 

 internal nervure ; submarginal row lunular, but rather indefinite. No tail. 



? . Upperside : both wings pale sublustrous azure-blue ; primaries with a broad 

 brown costa, very broad outer margin, and yet broader apical area ; secondaries with 

 very broad margins all round, the costa being the broadest. Underside like the male, 

 but much paler and not so rich in colour ; pattern just the same, but inclined to be 

 rather obscure. 



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