356 Mr. J. H. Leech on 
hama, Oiwake, Satsuma, Shimoneseki, Gensan, Ichang, 
and Moupin. 
The silvery mark at the outer end of the cell may be 
bar-like, geminate, or punctiform, but it is not entirely 
absent in any of my specimens; other silvery marks are 
found at the base of the cell (always present) and towards 
the apex of the primares. 
Distribution. SYLHET; BERNARDMYO; Burma; E. 
Precu ; BornEo (Hampson); JAPAN; COREA; CENTRAL, 
WESTERN and NORTH-EASTERN CHINA. 
280. Phassus marginenotatus, sp. n. 
Primaries brownish, sparsely striated with darker, the costal and 
«central areas are variegated with golden brown ; there is a diffuse, 
oblique, dark brown, sub-basal band, a patch of the same colour 
‘beyond the cell, and some dark brown quadrate spots on the 
-apical half of the costa; fringes of the ground colour, preeeded by 
silvery white dots. Secondaries and undersurface of all the wings 
fuliginous. Expanse 70 millim. 
One male specimen from Omei-shan, taken in June or 
July. 
Hab. WESTERN CHINA. 
981. Phassus david. 
Flepialus davidi, Pouj., Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., (6) vi, p. xcii 
(1886). 
Described from specimens received from Moupin. I have 
four examples from Chia-kou-ho, taken in July and August. 
Hab. WESTERN CHINA. 
282. Phassus excrescens. 
Fepialus excrescens, Butl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) 
xx, p. 482° (1877); Ill Typ. Mep.e Mets ein) ps 205 
pl. xxvii, fig. 7 (1878). 
Phassus excrescens, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het., i, p. 889 (1892). 
Hepialus emulus, Butl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) xx, 
p. 482 (1877); Ill. Typ. Lep. Het., 11, p. 20, pl. xxvii, 
fig. 8 (1878). 
Phassus excrescens, Leech, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1888, 
. 645. 
faa species. I have specimens from Yokohama 
Hakodate and Kiushiu. 
Distribution. JAPAN, YESSO and KiusHiu ; AMURLAND. 
