8 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
Family — N0T01) ONTIBJE. 
30. Ptelophora kashghara. Plate I, fig. 19. 
Ptilophora kashghara, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 231. 
Male. Pore 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. Antennse yellowish-testaceous. Underside grey, sparsely 
brown-speckled ; long pubescence of abdomen brown and black. Legs pale brown. 
Expanse lyv inch. 
ILab. — Yangiliissar, Eastern Turkestan, March 3rd, 1874. 
31. OxiCESTA MARMOREA. Plate I, fig. 17- 
Oxicesla 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. Antennse brown. Underside uni- 
form greyish-brown ; cilia of fore wing with black streaks. 
Expanse 1 T ^ inch. 
Hab . — Sasak Taka, Eastern Turkestan, May 16th, 1874. 
Differs from O. geographica in being longer in the wings, of a different colour, and 
without the two transverse zigzag white bands on the fore wings. 
Family — SATURN IID2E. 
32. Neoris shaiiidula. 
Neons skadulla , Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 577. 
Hab. — Shahidula, Kuenlun (R. B. Shaw, 1870). 
A distinct species from that figured by Eelder (Nov. Reise, pi. 87, fig. 3), and named 
Saturnia stoliczhai, from Ladak. 
Tribe-NOCTUES. 
Family — B OMB T Cl DM. 
33. Acronycta karghaliea.. Plate I, fig. 9. 
Acronycta kargalika, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 232. 
Female. Eore wing pale silvery brownish-grey ; reniform and orbicular marks whitish, 
brown-bordered, and contiguous ; a longitudinal streak from the base, a contiguous trans- 
