Pygospila costiflexalis

1) OD : Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptéres, Deltoïdes et Pyralites pg 313 #341 ;
2) Fauna of British India, Moths Vol 4, G.F. Hampson pg 362 # 5058;
Male differs from P. tyres - in being cupreous brown, with a slight purplish tinge, the neck fulvous. Forewing with the subbasal lines and a patch above middle of inner margin pale fulvous; the spots beyond the cell and towards apex separated into two pairs ; the upper sub-marginal spot absent and the other two small. Hindwing with the spot towards apex absent.
Fore wing of male with a postmedial sub-
costal fold on underside filled with close-set fulvous scales, the costa above it crenulate, hindwing with the inner area thickly tufted with fulvous hair