PHASSUS. By R. Pfitzner f and M. Gaede. 
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Ph. viridis Hmps., likewise from the Nilgiri Mts. in South India, is characterized by a general sap-green viridis. 
colour (the only green Phasstis). Abdomen and hindwing excepting the green apex dark brown. Scent-tuft 
brown. 86 mm. 
Ph. albofasciatus Mr., also from the Nilgiri Mts. (7—8000 ft.). $ head, thorax and forewing greyish- albofascia- 
brown; an indistinctly defined greyish-white band from the base to the apex, the median area reddish-brown. 
All the wings densely covered with undulate black stripes, dark spots and rings. Abdomen and hindwing 
blackish-brown. 64—84 mm. 
Ph. damor Mr. (= similis Fldr.) (77 b). Distinguished by the strongly marked apex of the hind wing- damor. 
Body and forewing greyish-brown with a few dark brown spots at the costal margin. A brown triangle in 
the cell is connected with an oblique irregular brown spot below the cell reaching to vein 1 and almost filling 
up the whole area at the cell-end, below it and behind it, so that only a pale streak remains in the upper cell- 
end. A spot at vein 1 close before the brown band, a streak behind the cell-end, besides 3 double oblique 
macular bands: one at the cell-end, a distal one, and one before the margin. Hindwing dark brown, a few 
brown spots near the apex. 65—85 mm. Sikkim. 
Ph. punct’margo Swh. Head and thorax dark red-brown. Abdomen darker. Forewing dark red- punctimar- 
brown. Two oblique bands in the interior area, with a glossy lead-coloured mixture in the distal area and V° 
distal angle. Some indistinct square spots at the costa. Two indistinct postmedian lines, the interior one 
with a white spot without the cell, the other line bent in the middle. Between these two lines a series of 
irregular ring-spots, a similar submarginal series. Rows of white spots at the distal margin. Hindwing pale 
brown with 2 very indistinct dark apical spots. Distal margin dark. $ paler red-brown. Forewing without 
white spots, postmedian line almost straight, a series of white spots and stripes at the distal margin on all 
the wings, more or less united into spots; variable in the different specimens. Sikkim. 
Ph. purpurascens Mr. (78 d) is recognizable by the beautiful intensely purple brown, sometimes more purpuras- 
reddish-brown colouring. A few dark brown, lighter-edged spots at the costal margin, a white lunule at the cens - 
basal end of the cell, and one at the upper end of the cell. 1—4 white dots right behind the cell. Some¬ 
times the ground-colour is somewhat reddened and a few white dots are scattered over the wing. 114 to 
136 mm. Only ascertained from Ceylon. 
Ph. niger v. Eecke. Ground-colour of body and wings dark red-brown; almost black in the centre of niger. 
the hindwing. A yellowish-white streak at the cell-end of the forewing. A series of very small yellowish 
spots between the apex and vein 2, about 10 mm distant from the margin. Besides small spots below vein 
2 outside. Before and behind the row of dots there is one broad lighter band each, and a similar one at 
the inner margin. The whole wing is covered with somewhat reticulate dark lines. Hindwing without mark¬ 
ings. $ 140 mm. Sumatra. 
Ph. pfitzneri Gel. sp. n. (100 a). Similar to niger, forewing dark brown, somewhat lighter at the costal pfitzneri. 
margin. A short yellowish-white streak at the cell-end is half as long as in niger, a similar dot close behind 
it. An oblong-triangular spot is above the base of vein 3, one small yellowish-white spot each above and 
below it. The interior one of the two bands of niger is narrow here, dark violettish-brown. The exterior one 
undulate and connected with marginal spots extending obliquely downward, as in signifer. Marking at the 
inner margin likewiese similar, but much darker, signifer has a white spot in the cell, pfitzneri below the cell. 
120 to 140 mm. Java. 
Ph. aboe Mr. (= salsettensis Mr.) (76 d). $ dull brown on the body and forewing. A triangular dark aboe. 
spot in the centre of the cell extends from there downward on vein 2. Two dark spots in the upper cell- 
angle, two small ones in the lower angle. Four irregular bands in the marginal area, composed of ring-spots, 
the innermost band being bent below the costal margin and showing a white spot at that place. Some 
ring-spots also below the cell. Hindwing dark brown with 2 square spots in the apex. The first of the 4 
bands in the $ is straighter and without a white spot. 65—85 mm. North India to Bombay. The $ figured is 
from the Khasia Mts. 
Ph. auratus Hmps. (76 d). Head and thorax blackish-brown, forewing very dark brown. Basal half auratus. 
at the costal margin and the cell brass-coloured with a few' brown spots at the costa. A brass-coloured spot 
at the apex, and at the centre of the distal margin. Hindwing dull brown. Scent-tuft ochreous. Bernardmyo, 
Burma; Khasia Mts. 42—48 mm. 
Ph. damajanti Pf. sp. n. (76 d), originating from the Coll. Fruhstorfer, is apparently a new Phassus- damajanii. 
form. Semi-transparent, glossy steel-grey. Forewing marbled with browmish ochre, a very sinuate broad 
brownish-ochreous blotch from the base almost to the distal margin, a golden spot in the disc, a small one 
towards the apex. Costa of forewing and hindwing brown and spotted steel-grey, fringe brownish ochreous. 
68 mm. Assam (Khasia Mts.). 
Ph. camphorae Sasake (78 c). This species having been discovered in the southernmost part of Japan camphorae 
was already briefly mentioned in Vol. II, p. 438. In the south-east it probably crosses the frontier towards 
