30 HEPIALIDiE. 



broad interrupted central belt, spotted with little transverse dashes of the ground-colour, and 

 with blackish spots across the centre, grey or greyish brown, sometimes becoming gravel- 

 yellow upon the inner margin (where it is broken up into three or four unequal spots); a 

 discal band, either grey or gravel-yellow, spotted in the centre with black ; margin grey, 

 sinuated internally : secondaries semitransparent greyish brown : body dark greyish brown, 

 with testaceous anus ; thorax sometimes reddish. Under surface greyish, the markings 

 obsolete. Expanse of wings, J 11 millim., 5 51 millim. 

 Darjiling [Ladder dale). 



Hepialus pauperatus. (Plate CVIII. figs. G & 7.) 

 Hepialus pauperatus, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. ii. p. 593 (1865). 



Upper surface smoky grey-brown ; the primaries darker than the secondaries, blotched 

 with creamy whitish along the inner border and at the base of the cell ; the male also varied 

 with ochraceous ; an irregular oblique cream-coloured band crossing the wing beyond the 

 middle, and enclosing the fourth of six parallel equidistant scries of small black-edged white 

 spots ; head and collar browner than the rest of the body. Under surface uniformly grey. 

 Expanse of wings, g I 1 millim., ? GO millim. 



$ , Darjiling (Sadler); ?, India (Hearsey) . 



PHASSUS, Walk. 



Phassus aboe. (Plate CIX. fig. 1.) 

 Phassus aboe, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. Comp. ii. p. 437. n. 990 (1S59). 



Dark fuliginous brown ; primaries with the basi-internal third greyish, bounded externally 

 by an oblique ill-defined cupreous-brown stripe ; remainder of the wing crossed by series of 

 m< irr or less oval cupreous-brown spots, the edges of which are embossed, and by two sub- 

 parallel pale embossed discal lines; a white dot at the inferior angle of the discoidal cell. 

 Under surface without markings; posterior tibiae with a tuft of yellow hair at" the base. 

 Expanse of wings 69 millim. 



Darjiling. 



Phassus signifer. (Plate CIX. fig. 2.) 

 Phassus signifer, Walker, Cat. Lep. lid. vii. p. 1508. n. (1S56). 



Primaries above pale golden brown, changing to greyish olivaceous in the cell and towards 

 the base ; the basi-internal area, an oblong patch in the cell, a broad forked discal band, 

 and a submarginal series of diffused patches silver-grey; the whole wing-surface ornamented 



