12 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



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45. HELIOTHIS HYBVEOIDES. Plate I, fig. 20. 

 Heliothis hyblosoides, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 234. 



Upperside : 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 with brown ; cilia white. Body grey, 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. 



Sab. Chiklik, south of Yarkand, June 3rd, 1874. 



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Family A CONTIIDj. 

 46. AGROPHILA STJLPHURALIS. 



AgropJiila sulphuralis, Bergstr., Ins. Suec. i, p. 16. Guen., Noct., ii, p. 206. Eversm., Fauna Volgo- 



Ural., p. 461. 

 Ph. tralealis, Scop., Ent. Cam. p. 40. 



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Agrophila tralealis, Erschoff, Lep. Turkestan, p. 52. 

 Hal. Yarkand. 



47. ACONTIA LUCTTJOSA. 



Acontia luctuosa, Schiff, Wien. Verz. p. 90 (1776). Guen., Noct.ii,p. 223. Eversm., Fauna Volgo- 

 Ural, p. 331. Erschoff, Lep. Turkestan, p. 50. 



Sab. Yangihissdr, April. 



Family ERASTRIDjE. 

 48. BANKIA ARGENTULA. 



SanJcia argentula, Hiibn., Beit., i, p. 9, t. 2, fig. F. (1788). 

 JIab. Ak Masjid, south of Yarkand. 



Family CATOCALWJE. 

 49. CATOCALA PTJDICA, n. sp. 



Allied to C. puerpera. Differs from Southern European specimens in the fore wing being 

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

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



