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outwardly oblique ; lower discoccUular souietimes upright, sometimes slightly inwardly 

 oblique, straight or slightly concave ; second median nervulo emitted always a little 

 before the lower end of the cell ; submedian nervuro a little waved ; internal nervure 

 short, recurved. 



" Antennce short, less than half the length of the costa of the fore wing, with a gradually formed 



attenuated club. 

 " Paljii moderately long, porrect. 

 " Eijes smooth. 

 " Bodi/ moderately robust. 



" Larva onisciform, posteriorly flattened, bristly at the sides. Pupa of the usual lycsenid-shape." 

 (de NicevUle, I. c.) 



Arhopala ganesa. (Plate XXX. fig. il, var.) 



Amblypodia ganesa, 'Moove, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. p. 44, pi. ia. fig. 9 (1857). 

 Avibhjpodia ganesa, var. seminigra, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 44 (1890). 

 Amblypodia loomisi, Pryer, Rhop. Nihon. p. 11, pi. ii. fig. 15 (1886). 

 Arhopala ganesa, de Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 273 (1890). 



" Upperside : fore wing with discoidal cell and posterior base sky-blue ; the end of discoidal cell 

 and between discoidal veinlets white ; rest of wing dark brown : hind wing sky-blue to near 

 exterior margin, rest brown ; abdominal margin and cilia paler. Underside cream-white; 

 fore wings nearly covered with broad undulating brown bands ; hind wings with ill-defined 

 undulating bands ; near outer margin of both wings appears a very faint undulated line and 

 a series of dots. Wings shaped as in A. querceti and A. dodona'a. Without tails. 



" Expanse of wings 1^ inch." (Moore, I. c.) 



Yar. loomisii, 'Fryer { = seminigra, Leech). (Plate XXX. fig. 11, d .) Male. Primaries blue, 

 paler bej'ond cell ; costa and outer margin deeply bordered with black ; the discoidal spot, 

 which is within the costal border, is more intensely black. Secondaries black, suffused with 

 blue, most pronounced along the central area. Fringes fuscous grej'. Under surface pale 

 brownish grey, with four whitish wavj'-edged darker bands — the first two are basal, the third 

 is abbreviated, the fourth broad and the only one which is clearly defined; submarginal line 

 slender and interruijfed : secondaries greyish brown, with four interrupted bands, these are of 

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

 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 millim. 



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

 with Fryer's loomisi; but I now find that the latter and my var. seminigra 

 are identical ; as, however, Fryer's name is the earlier one, it must stand for 

 the Japanese and Chinese form of the Indian A. ganesa. 



The type of loomisi was taken at Kanozan in Kadzusa, Japan, and I 

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

 Chow-pin-sa, Western China. 



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