98 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Genus PYRGUS. 



Pynjus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 109 (181G). 

 Siiriclitits, Boisduval, Icones, p. 230 (1833). 



Hesperia, Watson (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 04. Elwes and Edwards (part), Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 1897, p. 153. 



In venation and general structure similar to the genus Hesperia, forewing with a 

 costal fold in the male, but with neither the tuft of hairs on the hind tibiae nor the 

 hairy appendages from the breast at the base of the hind legs so characteristic of the 

 genus Hesperia. 



Type, Hesperia syrichtus, Fabricius. 



PYRGUS POGGEI. 

 Plate 780, figs. 4, ^ , 4a, ? , 4b, ? . 



Hesperia poggel, Lederer, Wien, eut. Mon. 18.58, p. 141. Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 65; id. 



Journ. Bo. Nat. HLst. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, 



p. 159. 

 Si/ricliius stauHingcri, Speyer, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1879, p. 344. 

 Hesperia staudiiii/eri, Elwes and Edwards, I.e. pi. 23, fig. 23 (genitalia). Leslie and Evans, Journ. 



Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv. 1903, p. 677. 

 Pijrgiis (Si/Tichtiis) proteus, Staudinger, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1886, p. 253. 

 Pi/njus proteus far. prometheiis, Groum-Grshimailo, Rhom. Mem. iv. p. 499, pi. 18, fig. 1 (1S90). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside slaty-black. Forewing with three linear 

 sub-apical spots, close together, divided by the veins, a lunule at the end of the cell, a 

 square .spot near the base of the second median interspace, a similar spot below the cell 

 spot, a little before the middle of the first median interspace, two spots below, a little 

 inwards, in the iuterno-median interspace. Hindwiny with a sub-basal small spot, a 

 large quadrate twin spot at the end of the cell, a small spot above it and three larger 

 spots below it, all in the form of a discal macular band, a sub-marginal series of small 

 spots from near the anal angle, obsolete upwards, all the spots on both wings white. 

 Cilia of both wings checkered black and white. Underside pale browTiish-grey. Fore- 

 winij with all but the outer margin suffused brown. Hindicing with the basal half 

 witli lirown suffusion, markings on both wings as on the ujjperside but more or less 

 obscure, especially on the hindwing. Antennae white Ijeneath ; palpi beneath and the 

 legs white ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? \^q to 1|- inches. 



Habitat. — Central Asia, Quetta, Beloocbistan, Chitral. 



Distribution. — It is in the B. M. from Quetta, Leslie and Evans record it from 

 Chitral ; it is very difficult to separate poggei from staudingeri = proteus, or prometlieus, 



