CALYMNIA. 199 



Ab. 5. badiofasciata. Fore wing with the medial area fuscous 

 or blackish. 



Hab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, 

 and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzeeland, Frey Coll. ; 

 Corsica (Yerbury) ; Italy; Greece; ? Algeria; Russia, Livonia, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Bithynia. Exp. 

 32-42 millira. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 117 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 317, pi. 224. f. 1. 



Pale green ; dorsal and subdorsal lines narrow, yellowish white ; 

 spiracular line broad, yellowish white, sometimes edged above with 

 blackish grey; spots white with black centres ; head green. Food- 

 plants : Oak, Elm, Salix, etc., but usually carnivorous feeding on 

 other caterpillars. 5-6. 



4558. Calymnia orina. (Plate CXLI. fig. 32.) 



Cosmia, orina, Gueu. Noct. ii. p. 10 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 212. 

 Calymnia calami, Harv. Cat. Ent. viii. p. 54 (1876). 

 Atethmia cancscens, Behr. Bull. Cal. Ac. Sci. i. p. 61 (1885) ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am, p. 214. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale yellow suffused with bright 

 rufous. Fore wing pale yellow suffused with bright rufous ; 

 subbasal line represented by an oblique rufous striga from costa 

 defined by pale yellow on inner side ; antemedial line rufous 

 defined by pale yellow on inner side, very oblique and slightly 

 sinuous ; orbicular and reniform with pale yellow annuli, the former 

 small, round, the latter narrow, oblique ; an indistinct, rather diffused 

 rufous medial line excurved from costa to lower angle of cell, then 

 oblique ; postmedial line rufous defined by pale yellow on outer 

 side, oblique from costa to vein 6 and slightly incurved below 

 vein 4 ; cilia rather deeper rufous. Hind wing yellowish white ; 

 the underside with the costa slightly tinged with rufous. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing suffused with brown instead 

 of rufous. 



Ab. 2. calami. Head, thorax, and fore wing pale yellow without 

 rufous suffusion. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with the stigmata filled in with fuscous and 

 with fuscous patch beyond lower angle of cell. 



Hab. Canada, 1 tf ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, 1 S , 

 1 $ , Texas, 1 tf , type calami, Colorado, 2 <3 , California ( Walsing- 

 ham), 1 £ , Sta, Barbara (D' Urban), 2 d, S. Joaquim, 1 c? , Arizona, 

 Prescott, 2 J , Pinal Mts. (Kunze), 1 5 , Catalina Mts. (Oslar), 1 <$ , 

 3 $ . Exp. 30-38 millim. 



4559. Calymnia subtilis. 



Cosmia subtilis, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 33 ; Alph. Rom. Mem. v. 

 p. 172, pi. 7. f. 8 ; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 204. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish white tinged with rufous. 

 Fore wing pale yellow slightly irrorated with rufous; a slight 



