288 Ml". R. Trimeii on some New Sijecies 



anal angle, between 3rd median nervide and sub-median nervure, 

 an orange-red marking, divided by a black band; below this 

 mark, an orange spot on inner margin ; orange fringe as above. 



5 . Rather paler ; the orange colouring much paler. Under- 

 side. — Fore-wing : no whitish space. 

 Hab. Port Natal.— Coll. Brit. Mus. 



Genus Pyrgus, Hiibn. 

 Pyrgus Elma. 



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 vitreous streak closes 

 cell, contiguous to blackish streak ; near it, between 1st and 

 3rd 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 1st sub-costal nervule to sub- 

 median nervure ; traces of a sub-marginal row of whitish dots ; 

 anal-angular region hoary ; cilia whitish, varied greyish and dark- 

 brown. Underside. — Rather glossy, much paler ; dull brownish- 

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

 sub-marginal row of whitish dots. Hind-wing: an additional 

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

 streak ; white tand 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. The vitreous markings and brownish 

 fore-wings seem to indicate an approach to Nisoniades (Thanaos). 

 Haunts sandy spots and pathways in bushy places, outskirts of 

 woods, &c. 



Hab. Mossel Bay, Knysna, Plettenberg Bay ; Coll. mihi. — 

 King William's Town ; Coll. W. S. M. D'Urban.— Cape of Good 

 Hope; Coll. "of Hesperidae (Boisduval's?) in Brit. Mus. 



I possess four, if not five, distinct South African species of 



