10 SECOND YARKAKD MISSION. 



Family NOCTUID^!. 

 37. AGROTIS SEGETTJM. 



Nochia segetnm, Schiff., W. V. p. 252 (1776). Eversm., Fauna Volgo-Ural, p. 196. 

 Ayrotis segetum, Steph., Haust. ii, p. 115. Erschoff, Lep. Turkestan, p. 41. 



Sab. Tankse, Ladak ; Karghalik, Eastern Turkestan, May 29th. 



38. AGROTIS AQUILINA. 



Noctua aquilina, Schiff., W. V. p. 80 (1776). 



Sab. Tankse, 13,000 feet, Leh, August 29th, September 8th. 



39. AGROTIS TIBETANA. Plate I, fig. 16. 

 Agrotis iibelana, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 233. 



Upperside : fore wing greyish-brown, with indistinct dusky transverse subbasal double 

 sinuous line, discal dentate lines, and pale outer-bordered wavy narrow submarginal band, 

 speckled orbicular spot, and quadrate reniform mark. Cilia with narrow white marginal line : 

 hind wing brownish- white, veins and outer margin brown ; cilia white. Antennae and body 

 greyish-brown, tip of abdomen yellowish. 



Underside : fore wing greyish- white, dusky -brown basally along the costa and hind margin, 

 speckled on outer margin : hind wing whitish, an indistinct dusky spot at end of the cell, a 

 spot medially on each vein, and narrow lunular marginal line. Legs greyish-brown, femora 

 and tibiae streaked, and tarsi banded, with black. 



Expanse If inch. 



Sab. Leh (August 8th, 1873). 



40. SP.ELOTIS UNDTJLANS. Plate I, fig. 10. 



Spalotis undulans, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 233. 



Male and female. Fore wing grey-brown, irrorated with darker scales, crossed by sub- 

 basal and ante and post-medial double pale-bordered undulated brown bands, each ending on 

 the costa in a darker spot ; a submarginal pale outer-bordered brown wavy fascia, and small 

 black marginal lunules : hind wing glossy greyish-white with brownish-tinged borders, brown 

 veins and lunular marginal line. Thorax grey-brown, abdomen greyish-white. Antennae and 

 palpi greyish-brown. Underside glossy greyish- white. Tibiae streaked, and tarsi banded, with 

 black. 



Expanse 1 T 8 7 inch. 



Sab. Ak Masjid, June 2nd, south-east of Chiklik, June 5th, 1874, both south of 

 Yarkand. 



Allied to Spcelotis pyrophila. 



