342 



noctuid.e. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the reniform filled in with fuscous ; hind 

 wing wholly suffused with brown. 



Uab. France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leeeh 

 Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary, Frey Coll. ; Switzerland ; Spain, 

 Aragon ; N". Italy; S. Sweden; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., 

 Sarepta ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Taurus ; Persia ; W. Turkestan, 

 Tarbagatai Mts., Issyk-Kul ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 42-50 

 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 166 ; Hffm. Raup. p. 96. 



Green ; head black. Food-plants : Alsine media, Plantago 

 lanceolata, Brachy podium pinnatum, &c. 5-6. 



Sect. II. (Zotheca). Antennje of male ciliated. 



4781. Calamia tranquilla. 



Zotheca tranquilla, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 69 (1874); 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 212 

 Cosmia sambuci, Behr, Streck. Lep. Rhop. k Het. p. 94 (1874). 

 Zotheca viridula, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. iv. p. ISO (1878). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous suffused with bright 

 rufous. Fore wing ochreous white suffused with bright rufous ; 

 a faint rufous antemedial line with small spot on costa, angled 

 outwards in submedian fold and inwards on Yein 1 ; a rufous 

 medial shade, diffused on costal area, slight and oblique from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin with the faint oblique olive-green 

 reniform on it ; postmedial line rufous, obliquely bent outwards 

 from below costa to vein 6 towards termen, exeurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique and slightly incurved, met at vein 6 by an oblique 



Fig. 156. — Calamia tranquilla, tf . \. 



shade from costa towards apex with a yellow point on it on costa ; 

 cilia bright rufous. Hind wing white slightly tinged with rufous ; 

 the underside with slight rufous mark at upper angle of cell and 

 indistinct curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. viridula. Head, thorax, and abdomen with the rufous 

 replaced by pale yellow-green. 



Hab. Canada, Vancouver (J. J. Walker), 1 tf ; U.S.A., 

 Washington Forest Reserve {Mrs. Nicholl), 1 § , California, 3 3 , 

 2 2 fjpe viridula, Mt. Shasta {Walsingham), 1 J, Havilah, 1 rf . 

 Exp. 40 millim 



Larva. Dyar, Can. Ent xxiii. p. 205 (1891 1. 



Plump and smooth, tapering at extremities, curled spirally when 



