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HEPIALID^. 
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, 44 millim., $51 millim. 
Darjiling {Lidderdale) . 
Hepialus pauperatus. (Plate CVIII. figs. 6 & 7.) 
Hepialus pauperatus, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ilet. 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 series of small black-edged white 
spots ; head and collar browner than the rest of the body. Under surface uniformly grey. 
Expanse of wings, ^ 44 millim., ? 60 millim. 
, Darjiling (/Sac?/er) ; India (//earsey) . 
PHASSUS, Walk. 
Phassus aboe. (Plate CIX. fig. 1.) 
Phassus aboe, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. Comp. ii. p. 437. n. 990 (1859). 
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 
more 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, Walher, Cat. Lep. Eel. vii. p. 1568. n. 6 (1856). 
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 diflPused patches silver-grey ; the whole wing-surface ornamented 
