318 hepialidjE. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish or reddish brown. Fore 

 wing grevish or ochreous brown, with four indistinct series of 

 small dark specks or small ring-spots on indistinct pale oblique 

 bauds ; a submarginal series of specks or ring-spots on pale spots. 

 Hind wing pale fuscous. 



Fig. 218. — Hepialiscus nepalensis, $ . \. 



In the form indicus=marcidus black blotches are developed in, 

 beyond, and below the cell of the fore wing. 



Hob. Simla; Kuluj J^epal; Sikhim. Hasp., <$ 44, 5 56 millim. 



Genus PHASSUS. 



Phassus, Wlk. Cat, vii, p. 1566 (1855). 



Endoclyta, Feld. Reis. Nov., Lep., Atl. pi. 81, fig. 8, Erk. p. 4 (1867). 



Type, P. hiibneri, Greyer, from Mexico. 



Mange. Mexico; S.America; Africa; Japan ; China ; through- 

 out India, Ceylon, and Burma; Perak ; Borneo. 



Palpi absent. Antennae short and filiform. Pore and mid legs 

 fringed with hair on both sides ; hind legs aborted in male, the 

 femur and tibia short, the latter with a curved tuft of long hairs, 

 the tarsus more or less aborted, in some species only represented 

 by a bristle. Both wings with veins 9 and 10 stalked; a forked 

 veinlet in the cell, and vein 12 fringed with hair. Pore wing with 

 a bar between vein 1 b and median nervure. 



The pro thorax, consisting of two pieces, is ankylosed to the 

 mesothorax consisting of three pieces, the metatliorax, consisting of 

 one large piece, being freely moveable on the mesothorax. 

 Larvae borers in trunks of trees. 



681. Phassus aboe, Moore, Lep. JE. I. Co. p. 437; C. $ S. no. 1615; 

 Butl. III. Met, vi, pi. 109, tig. 1. 

 Phassus salsettensis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 412, pi. 34, fig. 5 ; 

 C. 8f S. no. 1621. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen dull brown. Pore wing dull 

 brown ; seven indistinct dark quadrate marks on the costa ; a 

 triangular dark mark at centre of cell extending downwards along 

 vein 2 ; two large dark marks in upper end of cell, two small 

 marks in the lower end; four oblique bands of irregular ring-marks 

 across the marginal area, the innermost bent below the costa, with 

 a white spot at the bend ; a number of irregular ring-marks 



