LEPIDOPTERA. 9 



verse subbasal recurved line, a discal transverse lunular line (crossed near posterior angle by a 

 short streak), some short costal marks, and a streak on cilia between each vein, brown : hind 

 wing glossy greyish- white, outer borders and veins pale greyish-brown. Thorax and abdomen 

 dark grey. Antennae grey. Underside greyish- white : fore wing with greyish-brown costal 

 streaks and hinder margin : hind wing with brown basal costal streak and discocellular spot. 

 Palpi brown at sides. Legs grey, femur tipped, tibia longitudinally streaked, and tarsi banded 

 with black. 



Expanse 1 T S 7 inch. 



Sab Karghalik, May 29th, 1874. 



Nearest allied to A. tridens, but differs in being darker; the markings are somewhat 

 similar, but the basal longitudinal streak is shorter, which gives a wider interspace between 

 the two transverse lines. 



Family APAHIDJE. 



34 HYDILECIA TIBETANA. Plate I, fig 21. 

 HydrcRcia tibetana, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 232. 



Male. Fore wing pale reddish-testaceous, crossed by two pale brown narrow lines with pale 

 inner border, the first line subbasal and outwardly oblique, the other discal ; a submarginal 

 row of blackish dots and pale marginal line ; orbicular and reniform marks indistinctly defined 

 by a brown border : hind wing and abdomen paler. Underside palest on middle of wings, 

 discal line on both wings and discocellular spot on hind wing slightly perceptible. Antennae, 

 palpi, and fore legs reddish-testaceous. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Sab. Leh, September 1st, 1873. 



35. MAMESTRA CANESCENS. Plate I, fig. 13. 



Mamestra canescens, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 233. 



Male. Eore wing brownish-grey : orbicular and reniform marks greyish-white with narrow 

 black border ; a short double black streak below the base of the cell, and a quadrate mark 

 below the orbicular spot ; an indistinct pale submarginal irregular fascia and black marginal 

 lunular line with whitish inner border : hind wing pale greyish-brown. Antennae brown. 

 Underside glossy pale greyish-brown, each wing with indistinct short transverse discocellular 

 streak. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Hob. Karghalik, Eastern Turkestan, May 30th, 1874. 



36. MAMESTRA BRASSICJE. 



Phal. noct. brassica, Liuii., Syst. Nat. i, p. 516. 



Hab. Srinagar, Kashmir, August 9th. 



