HE8PERIDJE. 



180. Pyrgus Elma. 



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

 Exp. 10 lin. 1 in. 1 lin. 



Dark-brown, 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- 

 wing : 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 want of white spots in the 

 fore-wings; but the hind-wings are quite like those of an ordinary Pyrgus. 



Sandy spots and pathways in bushy places, outskirts of woods, &c. 



September (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 Hesperida (Boisduval's ?) 

 in Brit. Mus. 



181. Pyrgus Mohozutza. S~ 



Hesperia Mohozutza, Wallgr., Lep. Ithop, Caffr., p. 50. 

 Exp. 1 in. 1 in. 1 lin. 



Blackish-brown: with creamy and fulvous spots. Fore-wing : 

 costa and main nervures irrorated with ochreous to about 

 middle ; a quadrate creamy spot at extremity of discoidal 



