12 SECOND TAHKAND MISSION. 



45. IlELiOTnis HTBLiEorDES, Plate I, fig. 20. 

 Heliothis Iii)hlo:oi.des, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 234. 



Uppersicic : fore wing grey, minutely brown- speckled ; an indistinctly apparent brown 

 curved streak at end of the cell, and a submarginal pale zigzag line : hind wing brownish- 

 white, with a broad greyish-black medial transverse band (which is confluent with a curved 

 discocellular black streak) and a large black oval spot on middle of outer margin ; abdominal 

 border tinged -nith brown ; ciUa white. Body gi-ey, beneath whitish ; legs greyish-white, 

 brown-speckled. 



Underside greyish-white : fore wing with a dusky-black transverse broad apical band 

 and an outwardly-oblique medial band : hind wing with a dusky-black dentate streak at end 

 of the cell, slight medial band, and oval marginal spot. 



Expanse If inch. 



Sal). — Chiklik, south of Yarkand, June 3rd, 1874. 



Family— J CONTIIB^. 



46. AgROPHILA SULPHUEAIilS. 



Agrophila sulphuraUs, Bergstr., Ins. Suec. i, p. 16. — Guen., Noct., ii, p. 206.— Eversm., Fauna Volo-o- 



Ural., p. 401. 

 Ph. trahealis, Scop., Ent. Carn. p. 40. 

 Agrophila trahealis, Erschoff, Lcp. Turkestan, p. 52. 



JELab. — Yarkand. 



47. ACONTIA LUCTUOSA. 



Acontia luduusa, Sehiffi, Wien. Verz. p. 90 (1776). — Guen., Noct. ii, p. 223.— Eversm., Fauna Volgo- 

 Ural, p. 331. — ErschofF, Lep. Turkestan, p. 50. 



Hah. — Yangihissar, April. 



^a.m\\y—ERA8TBID^. 

 48. Bankia augentula. 

 BanJcia argentula, Hlibn., Beit., i, p. 9, t. 2, fig. F. (1786). 

 Hah. — Ak Masjid, south of Yarkand. 



Tamily—CATOCALIBj^. 

 49. Catocala pudica, n. sp. 



Allied to Cimerpera. Differs from Southern Em-opeau specimens in the fore wing being 

 prolonged at the apex and having its exterior margm more oblique ; this wing is also much 

 paler in colour, and has the two bands of the underside visible from above ; tlie ante-and 



