8 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



Family NOTODONTID^!. 

 30. PTELOPHORA KASHGHARA. Plate I, fig. 19. 



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



Male. Fore wing dark grey, irrorated with brown scales, crossed by three indistinctly 

 defined narrow zigzag brown bands, which are slightly dentated on the veins. Cilia alter- 

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

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

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

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



Expanse 1 T S F inch. 



Hob. Yangihissar, Eastern Turkestan, March 3rd, 1874. 



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

 Oxice&ta marmorea, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 231. 



Male. Upperside greyish-brown : fore wing with a pale yellowish irregular 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. Antennae brown. Underside uni- 

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



Expanse 1 7 V inch. 



Hab. Sasak Taka, Eastern Turkestan, May 16th, 1874. 



Differs from O. geograpMca in being longer in the wings, of a different colour, and 

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



Family SATURNIIVJS. 

 32. NEOBIS SHAHIDULA. 



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



Nab. Shahidula, Kuenlun (B,. B. Shaw, 1870). 



A distinct species from that figured by Felder (Nov. Eeise, pi. 87, fig. 3), and named 

 Saturnia stoliczlcai, from Ladak. 



Tribe NOCTUES. 

 Family BOMBYCID^!. 



33. ACRONYCTA KARGHALIKA. Plate I, fig. 9. 

 Acronyeta kargalika, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 232. 



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

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



