HE8PER1D.E. 291 



180. Pyrgus Elma. 



Pyrgus Elma, Trimen, Tr. Ent. Soc.y 3rd Ser., I, p. 288. 

 Exp. 10 lin.— 1 in. 1 lin. 



Dark-broivn, varied with lighter, and with vitreous and 

 white spots. Fore-wing : dark as far as middle, which is 

 crossed by a curved blackish streak ; beyond streak the wing 

 is light-brown, with some darker shades and dashes ; a 

 vitreoos streak closes cell, contiguous to blackish streak ; 

 near it, between first and third median nervules, two small 

 vitreous spots, the lower one larger, quadrate ; a transverse 

 line of three contiguous, minute, vitreous spots on costa, not 

 far from apex ; cilia varied light and dark-brownish. Hind- 

 icing : almost black ; a small, round white spot in discoidal 

 cell, near base ; about middle, a conspicuous, rather wide, 

 white band, from first subcostal nervule to submedian nervure; 

 traces of a submarginal row of whitish dots ; anal-angular 

 region hoary ; cilia whitish ; varied greyish and dark-brown. 

 Under-side. — Rather glossy, much paler ; dull brownish- 

 ochreous. Fore-wing : vitreous marks as above ; an indistinct 

 submarginal row of whitish dots. Hind-wing : an additional 

 white dot above that in cell, the two forming a short, 

 transverse streak ; white band commences on costa ; whitish 

 at anal angle, extending along inner-margin, sometimes 

 conspicuous. 



The ? is paler than the $ . 



Pyrgus Elma differs from all other South African species of the Genus I 

 have seen in the presence of vitreous, and ivant of ichite spots in the 

 fore-wings; but the hind-wings are quite like tliose of an ordinary Pijryus. 



Sandy spots and pathways in busiiy places, outbkirls of woods, &c. 



St-ptember (m). November (b) — February (e). " October and March." — 

 W. D'Urban, in litt. 



Mossel Bay. Knysna. Plettenberg Bay. King William's 

 Town (W. D'Urban).— Coll. Tri. 



Bashee River, Kaffraria (J. H. Bowker). — Coll. S. A. Mus. 



Cape of Good Hope. — Coll. of Hesperidce (Boisduval's ?) 

 in Brit. Mus. 



181. Pyrgus Mohozutza. 



Hesperia Mohozutza, fVallgr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 50. 



Exp. 1 in. — 1 in. 1 lin. 



Blackish-brown: tvith creamy and fulvous spots. Fore-tcing : 

 costa and main nervures irrorated with ochreous to about 

 middle ; a quadrate creamy spot at extremity of discoidal 



