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SECOND YAEKAND MISSION. 
45. Heliothis hybl^oiees. Plate I, fig. 20. 
Heliothis hyUmUes, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 334. 
Upperside: fore wing grey, minutely firown-speckled; an indistiactly apparent brown 
curved streak at end of tbe cell, and a submarginal pale zigzag line: bind 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. 
JSab. —Chiklik, south of Yarkand, June 3rd, 1874. 
Pamily—^ CONTIIDjE. 
46. Agbophila sulphijealis. 
Agrop/nla mlphuralis, Bergstr., Ins. Suec. i, p. 16.—Guen., Noct,, ii, p. 206.-—Eversm,, Fauna Volgo- 
Ural., p. 461. 
Eh. tralealisy Scop., Ent. Cam. p. 40. 
AgropMla trabealis, Ersckoff, Lep. Turkestan, p. 53. 
Sah. —Yarkand. 
47. Acontia ltjctuosa. 
Acontia luctuosa, ScMff., Wien. Verz. p. 90 (1776).—Guen,, Noct. iijp. 233.—Eversm., Fauna Volgo- 
Ural, p. 331.—^Erschoff, Lep. Turkestan, p. 50. 
Sah. —Yangihissar, April. 
BE ASTRIDE. 
48. Bankia abgentula. 
BanUa argentula, Hiibn., Beit,, i, p. 9, t. 3, fig. F. (1786). 
Hah .—Ak Masjid, south of Yarkand. 
Family— CA TO CABIBjB. 
49. Catocala ptjdica, n. sp. 
Allied to C. puerBera. Diflers from Southern Emopean specimens in the fore wing being 
prolonged at the apex and having its exterior margin more oblique; this wing is also much 
paler in colour, and has the two bands of the underside visible from above; the ante-and 
