342 KOCTUID^. 



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

 wing wholly suffused with brown. 



Ilah. Fkance, Sand Coll. ; Germant, Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls. ; AusTEiA ; 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. 



Lnrva. Kirby, Butt. & Motlis Eur. p. 166 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 96. 



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

 lanceolata, Bracht/j-iodmm pinnatum, &c. 5-6. 



Sect. II. {Zotheca). Antennae of male ciliated. 



478L Calamia tranquilla. 



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



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

 Cosmia samhuci, Belir, Streck. Lep Rhop. & Het. p. 94 (1874). 

 Zotheca viridula, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. iv. p. 180 (1878). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous suffused Avith 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 vein 1 ; a rufous 

 medial shade, diffused on co.^tal 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, excurvod to vein 4, 

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



Fig. 156. — Calamia tranqnUla, cj". \. 



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

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

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

 iBdistinct curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2. 



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

 replaced by pale yellow-green. 



Hah. Canada, Vancouver {J. J. Walker), 1 cJ ; U.S.A., 

 "^"ashingtou Forest liescrve {Mrs. I^iclioll), 1 $ , California, 3 J , 

 2 2 type viridida, Mt. Shasta {Walsingham), 1 J, Havilah, 1 c? . 

 Exp. 40 millim 



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



riuinp and smooth, tapering at extremities, curled spirally when 



