1905.] HETEROCERA FROM THE FIJI ISLANDS. 89 



area suffused with grey, with a dark spot on the costa at the base 

 and another at a fifth, a small rust-red patch at the base of the inner 

 margin ; a medial large grey patch to vein 2 and bounded on the 

 costa by two short blackish stripes, the one nearer the base 

 touching a whitish spot near the end of the cell and encircling it, 

 a double postmedial strongly serrated line terminates this medial 

 patch ; a subterminal deeply arched interrupted blackish dentate 

 line rising in a heavy black costal dash, beyond which is a wedge- 

 shaped dark grey patch with a white outer margin ; from the apex 

 a dentate black oblique stripe meets the costal dash ; between 

 veins 3 and 5 are three dark marginal patches, the uppermost one 

 obsolescent ; cilia white, broadly intersected with rust- colour ; 

 between veins 3 and 4 a black, slightly curved stripe from the cell 

 to the subterminal line ; there is a slight grey scaling beyond the 

 basal grey area ; secondaries rich deep i-ust-colour, with a broad 

 obscure black termen interrupted by the ground-colour at the veins, 

 three pale lavender-greyish patches in the tornal area. Under 

 siirface : both wings rusty reddish, primaries with a broad ish 

 postmedial line, secondaries with a broad medial and postmedial 

 line. 



Expanse 106-110 mm. 



The type fi-om Nausori is in my collection. 



Ohromis erotus (Oram.). 



My specimens are somewhat different from ordinary specimens 

 from Australia and Kew Guinea (fcc.,the brown oblique nebulous 

 stripes in the primaries are absent, giving them an unusual 

 appearance ; there is, however, a trace of the stiipe in one 

 specimen. 



Hepialid^. 



Phassodes, gen, nov. 



Palpi porrect, end segment depressed slightly ; antennfe short, 

 filiform ; all the legs fringed with hair on each side, hind legs with 

 the tarsus perfect ; tibiae and femoiu short. Neuration as in the 

 genus Phassus Wlk., but with two bars close together from near 

 the base of vein 12 to the costa in the primaries; vein la free, \c 

 of moderate length, a bar from 1ft to Ic and to the median vein ; 

 veins 9 and 10 in both wings forming a long fork on a long stalk. 

 Primaries more or less excavated in both sexes below the apex, 

 and decidedly longer than the secondaries ; near the base of the 

 inner margin of the primaries in the S is a large gland (evidently 

 a scent-gland), with a semicircular opening towards the cell. 



Type, Phassodes odorevalvula B.-B. 



In section B the neuration and other characters are precisely 

 the same except that the scent- valve is absent. I am strongly of 

 opinion, however, that a genus should not be created on a purely 

 sexual character. 



All the species are strongly scented. 



