1566 
CATALOGUE OF 
Male . Dull fawn-colour, smaller than G. Libania. Head and 
thorax brownish. Abdomen and hind wings rather paler than the 
fore wings. Female.— Wings almost cinereous. Length of the 
body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 
a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 
b. Caffraria. From M. Becker’s collection. 
c . Cape. From Mr. Drege’s collection. 
Corpus sat gracile. Palpi obsoleti. Antennae graciles, fili- 
formes, simplices, capitis latitudine duplo longiores. Abdomen 
longissimum, subcylindricum, alas posticas longe superans. Pedes 
validi, pilosi. Alae longae, angustae; antic© apud costam rectae, 
apice vix acuminatae, margine exteriore perobliquo. 
Epiolus, p., Boisd. ; Herr.-Schaff. 
Phassus, Stephens, MSS. 
Body rather slender. Proboscis and palpi obsolete. Antennae 
slender, filiform, about twice longer than the breadth of the head. 
Abdomen very long, almost cylindrical, extending from more than 
one-third to three-fourths of its length beyond the hind wings. 
Legs rather stout; femora and tibiae pilose. Wings long and 
narrow. Fore wings straight along the costa, hardly acuminated at 
the tips, extremely oblique along the exterior border; veinlet 
between the third inferior vein and the discal areolet upright ; fore 
veinlet of the two behind the third inferior vein slightly curved. 
Mas. Fuscus ; abdomen alas posticas dimidio superans ; alee 
longee , mediocriter latee , anticce albido suffusce , vitta angulata 
maculisque costalibus obscure fuscis , liturisque quinque 
argenteis. 
Phassus argentiferus, Stephens , MSS. 
Brown. Abdomen extending for half its length beyond the 
hind wings. Wings long, moderately broad. Fore wings with a 
whitish tinge, with a dark brown deeply angular stripe, and with 
some dark brown costal spots ; two silvery marks by the costa, and 
three of various size and shape in the disk. Length of the body 24 
lines; of the wings 56 lines. 
a. Mexico. From Mr. Hartweg’s collection. 
Genus 7. PHASSUS. 
Mexico. 
1. Phassus argentiferus. 
