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Ill India ganesa appears to be restricted to the Western Himalayas. I have 

 a nice series of the typical form taken by Capt. Young at Sultanpore, Kulu. 



Col. Lang, according to de Niceville, states that A. ganesa occurs in oak- 

 forests at elevations varying from 5500 to 6500 feet. The sinuous character 

 of the costa of secondaries is suggestive of the genus Mahathala. 



Arhopala japonica. (Plate XXX. fig. 14, .) 



Ainbhjpodia japonica, Murray, Eut, Mo. Mag. xi. p. 170 (1875) ; Pryer, Rhop. Nihon. 

 p. 11, pi. ii. fig. U (1886). 



" Alis supra violaceo-cacruleis, late nigro-marginatis, anticis ad apicem subfalcatis, posticis ecau- 



datis : alis omnibus subtus brunneis strigis fasciisque saturatioribus, 

 " Alar. exp. 1" 6"'. Habitat Japoniara. 



" All the wings are above of a rich dark blue, widely black-bordered, with only a trace of disco- 

 cellular streaks. Underside brown, whitish along inner margin of fore wing. Fore wing : 

 an oblong mark closing cell, a spot within cell, a spot below each of these, a transverse 

 submaoular fascia beyond middle, bent on first median nervure, a series of lunnles along the 

 hind margin, and a line before the fringe darker brown. Hind wing: markings very 

 indistinct : a basal row of three minute blackish dots, followed by a transverse band of 

 hardly perceptible brown spots ; a rather large outlined discocellular mark ; a transverse 

 macular band, the spots composing which (except the two nearest the costa) are only outlined 

 with darker ; and a submarginal row of crescents, edged interiorly near anal angle by 

 grejish-blue scales. Fringe shining brown. All the dark markings of the underside are 

 faintly and very narrowly edged with lighter brown." {Murray, I. c.) 



A common insect in Southern Japan in May. I captured specimens also 

 in tlio autumn in Central Japan and at Gensan, Corea, in July. Pryer (/. c.) 

 states that this species hybernates. 



Arhopala rama. 



riiccla rama, Kollar, Iliigel's Kasclimir, iv. pt. 2, p. 112, pi. iv. figs. 1, 2, ^ (1848). 

 Auihhjjjodiu rama, Hcwitson, Cat. (Lyccenida) Brit. Mus. p. 13, pi. vii. figs. 69, 70, ^ , 

 71, ? (1HG2). 



Patichala rama, Moore, J'roc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 252. 

 Arhopala rama, dc Niceville, Butt. lud. iii. p. 251 (18i)U). 



Awhhjpoilia ijnrrrr/i, Moore, Horsficld & Moore, Cat. Lop. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 43 (1857). 



•• AliH ftiHcis cyaneo nilontibus, jmsticis unicaudatis, subtus omnibus dilute fuscis, fasciia obsoletis 

 undulutis obscurioribns.— Fxpans. ular. 1" -1"'." (Kollar, I.e.) 



A. (/iicrreti, Mooro.— " .\/,it,: I'pporside ijui jilc ; fore wing with broadish brown exterior margin 

 commencing from middle of anterior margin ; hind wing with broad brown margins. 



" Ffiiinlr. rpiicrside, with discoidal cell and posterior base of fore wing and middle of hind 

 wing purple, the diso of fore wing being somewhat lighter and pinky ; the rest of the wings 



