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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
ferruginous, the stigma yellow. Abdomen darker than the thorax, becoming fusco-ferru- 
ginous towards the apex. Eemale, length 7 lines. 
Sah. —'Neighhoimhood of Yarkand. Taken in May. 
The yellow markings are much brighter in some examples than in others, and the 
abdomen also varies in brightness. 
62. Ophion dentatus. 
Eemina.—0. rufus, metathorace lineis elevatis transversis, laterihusque unidentatis. 
Pale ferruginous; eyes, ocelli, and tips of the mandibles black; wings hyahne and 
iridescent; the mesothorax smooth and shining, the metathorax with two arcuate transverse 
carinae, the second being at the margin of the posterior truncation and terminating laterally in 
an acute angle or tooth. Abdomen falcate, smooth, shining, and with a fine short 
sericeous pubescence, or pile. Eemale, length 8 lines. 
Sah .—Sind valley, Kashmir. Taken in August. 
63. Ophion albopicttjs. 
Eemina.—0. rufus^ capite, scutello, lineis 4 dorsalihus macwUsque lateralibus alhis. 
Head white; eyes and ocelli hlaek, the anteimse and mandibles, rufous. Thorax rufous; 
two central longitudinal lines, the lateral margins, the scutellum and numerous spots 
on the sides beneath the wings, white; the wings hyaline and iridescent, the nervures 
ferruginous, the stigma pale rufous. Abdomen rufous, with some pale whitish spots at the 
sides towards the apex; the two basal segments beneath white. Eemale, length 6 lines. 
Neighbourhood of Yarkand. Taken in May. 
