THE SHOULDER-STRIPED WAINSCOT. 309 



aiid 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. 



The Shoulder-striped Wainscot {Leucania {Ciifhis) 

 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. i7npura, 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 Scot- 

 land, 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 

 doubtfiil 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." 



