On Plate 144, Fig. 9 represents the type of this specimen, and Fig. 10 ab. _sinelinea_, Farn. This form, which has also been referred to as "_alinea_," is without the typical black streak at the base of the fore wings. The caterpillar is pale pinkish grey; dorsal line pale yellow or bone colour; subdorsal stripes of the same colour, edged on each side by a grey line, and each divided down the middle by a slender pale brown line; spiracular stripe of a dull opaque yellowish white edged above with grey; head, and plate on the first ring of the body, pale brown, the latter striped with pale yellow (Barrett). It feeds in the upper part of reed stems until nearly full grown, and then upon the leaves. April to July. Barrett states that it prefers the reeds near small trees or bushes to those growing in masses. The moth is out in July and August, and may be netted as it flies at dusk along the edges of the reed beds, etc.; later on it resorts to the honeydew-covered leaves of sallow and alder, and also visits light. This species was first taken in 1864 at Ranworth in Norfolk; it is now obtained in Barton Broad and several other localities in the Norfolk fens, but not in any other part of the British Isles. It does not appear to occur abroad. [Illustration] Pl. 150. 1, 2. BROWN-LINE BRIGHT-EYE MOTH. 3, 6. DOUBLE-LINE MOTH. 4, 5. SHORE WAINSCOT. 7, 8. CLAY MOTH. [Illustration] Pl. 151. 1, 2, 3. TREBLE LINES MOTH. 4. ANOMALOUS MOTH. 5. MOTTLED RUSTIC. 6. UNCERTAIN MOTH. 7. RUSTIC MOTH. 8. VINE'S RUSTIC. 9, 10. PALE MOTTLED WILLOW. 11. SMALL-MOTTLED WILLOW. {309} THE SHOULDER-STRIPED WAINSCOT (_Leucania_ (_Cirphis_) _comma_). The striking features of this moth (Plate 147, Fig. 10) are the white median nervure, and the black streak below it, of the fore wings; there are also black marks on the veins before the outer margin. The caterpillar is very like that of _L. impura_, but there is a dark line on the back between the central and outer whitish lines. It feeds on cocksfoot and other grasses from June to August. The moth flies in June and July, and is not uncommon in meadows and grassy places, even by the roadside. Except that it does not, apparently, extend beyond Perthshire in Scotland, it seems to be widely, or even generally, distributed over the British Isles. Abroad it ranges to Siberia and Amurland. _Leucania l-album._--Barrett, "Lepidoptera of the British Islands," vol. ix. p. 450 (1904), remarks: "This species now seems to have made its way to this country, though it is still doubtful whether it has established itself. Mr. Eustace R. Bankes has captured a female specimen in South Devon, and he mentions the occurrence of one or two other specimens. It is a very pretty species, and widely distributed abroad." {310} THE DEVONSHIRE WAINSCOT (_Leucania_ (_Cirphis_) _putrescens_).