catalogue of the Pyralidina of Sikkim. 617 



[This seems to be most nearly allied to Glyphodes 

 Pryeri, Butler, from Japan. — H. J. E.] 



Genus Pygospila, Guen., Delt. et Pyr., p. 312 ; 

 Led., p. 404. 



174. Pygospila tyres. 



Pyralis tyres, Cramer, Uitl. Kap., iii., p. 124, pi. 263, c. 

 Pygospila tyres, Lederer, Wien. Ent. Mon., vii., 



p. 404 ; id., Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, p. 320 (part) ; 



S. & C, No. 4218. 

 P. tyrealis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyr., p. 312. 



Pygospila tyres is not at all the same as Lomotropa 

 costiflexalis, Guenee, though the females have some 

 likeness together. Guenee, who has both species in one 

 genus (Pygospila), positively says, " L'une est pourvue 

 de plusieurs appendices tres remarquables qui manquent 

 totalement chez I'autre." Indeed, the males are quite 

 different, and Lederer, in conformity with his system, 

 very rightly based on the striking sexual characters the 

 genera Pygospila and Lomotropa (Wien. Ent. Mon., vii., 

 I.e.). To this description of the genus Pygospila may 

 still be added that the anal tuft of tyres male is thick 

 and clubby, quite different from the long and pointed 

 abdomen of costiflexalis male. 



The females, too, are not so very difficult to separate ; 

 the ground colour of the upper side is in tyres nearly 

 black, with a strong violet gloss, without transparent 

 streak in cell 2 of fore wings, with a hroacl square dark 

 spot on the disco-cellular of hind wings, very distinctly 

 limited transparent violaceous-white spots and slender 

 white lines on the thorax. The ground colour of costi- 

 flexalis female is much paler, hardly more than vio- 

 laceous fuscous, the violaceous-white spots are diffused ; 

 cell 2 of fore wings is marked with a distinct transparent 

 white streak, the disco-cellular of hind wings with a 

 narrow dark streak, and the thorax with ochraceous 

 lines. I note this because some entomologists are still 

 uniting these two very distinct species. 



Darjeeling, 20th July and 4th August, 1886 ; H. J. 

 Elwes. Sikkim, 8000 ft. ; id. Tongio, Sikkim ; Moller. 



[A common species up to 10,000 ft. — H. J. E.] 



