This yellowish-clouded, whitish insect is a native of Southern Europe, Asia Minor, Syria, and North-west Africa. Occasionally it has occurred in England, and in the time of Haworth and Stephens one or two specimens seem to have been recorded as British. In 1855 an example was captured at Brighton, and others occurred in the same locality, and at Bexhill, Kent (Jenner), between that year and 1860. A specimen was recorded from Brighton in 1883, and one from South Devon in 1899. Reported from Wiltshire in 1910. (Plate 146, Fig. 7.) [Illustration] Pl. 146. 1, 2. MERE WAINSCOT. 3. THE CONCOLOROUS. 4. BOND'S WAINSCOT. 5, 6. LYME GRASS MOTH. 7. BRIGHTON WAINSCOT. [Illustration] Pl. 147. 1, 2. COMMON WAINSCOT. 3, 4. SMOKY WAINSCOT. 5. SOUTHERN WAINSCOT. 6. STRIPED WAINSCOT. 7, 8. OBSCURE WAINSCOT. 9. DEVONSHIRE WAINSCOT. 10. SHOULDER-STRIPED WAINSCOT. {303} THE LARGE WAINSCOT (_Calamia lutosa_). This species, shown on Plate 145, Figs. 1, 2, varies somewhat in the colour of the fore wings, which is usually pale ochreous brown, but may be more or less reddish tinged, or clouded with dusky; there is a row of black dots beyond the middle of the wing, but these are sometimes faint or absent. The range in size is considerable, some specimens are about the size of _L. straminea_ whilst others will equal that of a large _N. typhæ_. The caterpillar is whitish tinged with pink above, and with a dusky line along the back; head reddish brown and glossy; plates on first and last rings of the body shining pale brown. It feeds from April to June in the stems of reed (_Phragmites_), causing the leaves of the affected stems to whiten. The moth flies in August, September, and October, sometimes later, and occurs in marshes, and on the banks of streams and ditches, in most of the southern and eastern counties of England, and from Derbyshire to Durham; in Scotland it has been recorded from Roxburghshire (near Kelso, rare), Perthshire, Aberdeen, and Shetland. The species is widely spread in Ireland. THE FEN WAINSCOT (_Calamia phragmitidis_).