Arnetta vindhiana, the Vindhyan bob,[3] is a species of butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
[6] This species is reported from Palni Hills, Nilgiri Hills, Meghamalai, Wayanad, Coorg, Konkan, west Khandesh, Mhow, Thana, Surat Dangs and Madhya Pradesh.
Apparently being absent from the heavier jungle country between Bombay and Coorg.
Bell says that it is common in the Surat Dangs, where it is found sitting on the ground on dry leaves, blades of grass etc.
Also recorded from the Nilgiris by George Francis Hampson, who considered this, modesta and nilgiriana as a single species with vindhiana being the dry-season form, nilgiriana the wet-season form, and modesta, described from a single specimen obtained by Mr. Lindsay, a variant.