8 SECOND TARKAND MISSION. 



l^iimily—NOTOBONTIDJE. 

 30. Ptllophoea kashghara. Plate I, fig-. 19. 



Ptilophora kashghara, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 231. 



M(tle. Fore wing dai-k grey, irrorated with brown scales, crossed by three indistinctly 

 defined nan'ow zigzag brown bands, which are slightly dcntatcd on the veins. Cilia alter- 

 nately pale grey and brown : hind wing pale grey, sparsely sprinkled with broAvn scales. 

 Tliorax greyish-brown. Abdomen brown ; three anterior segments with dorsal row of blackish 

 tuborcidar scales ; tip also black. Antennae yellowish-testaceous. Underside grey, sparsely 

 brown-speckled ; long pubescence of abdomen brown and black. Legs pale brown. 



Expanse l/o inch. 



Rah. — Yangiliissar, Eastern Turkestan, March 3rd, 1874!. 



31. OXICESTA MAEMOREA. Plate I, fig. 17. 

 Oxicesta marmorea, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 231. 



Male. Upperside greyish-brown : fore wing with a pale yellowish uTcgular streak along 

 middle of cell to costa near apex, and a small spot beyond the cell, an indistinct pale streak 

 below the cell ; apical margin of costa and outer margin pale testaceous alternated with a 

 short black streak, which extends through the cilia : hind wing uniform pale greyish-brown, 

 slightly yellowish at base. Body and legs greyish-brown. Antenna; brown. Underside uni- 

 iovm greyish-brown ; cilia of fore wing with black streaks. 



Expanse l^V inch. 



^«6.— Sasak Taka, Eastern Tui-kestan, May 16th, 1874. 



Difi'ers from 0. geograjohica in being longer in the wings, of a different colour, and 

 without the two transverse zigzag white bands on the fore wings. 



Fami]y—SATUJiNni)yE. 



32. Neoris shahidula. 



Neoris shadtdla, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 577. 



J/r/&.— Shahidula, Kucnlun (E,. B. Shaw, 1870). 



A distmct species from that figured by Eclder (Nov. Reise, pi. 87, fig. 3), and named 

 Saturnia stoliczkai, from Ladak. 



Tribe— NOCTUES. 



Family— i? 0MB YCIJDyE. 



33. ACRONTCTA KARGHALIKA. Plate I, fig. 9- 



Acronycta kargaliJca, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 232. 



Female. Fore wing pale silvery brownish-grey ; rcniform and orbicular marks whitish, 

 brown-bordered, and contiguous ; a longitudinal streak from the base, a contiguous trans- 



