3IO The Scottish Naturalist. 



come with delight a scheme which promises to result in the ac- 

 cumulation of a large number of records of the times of arrival 

 and departure of migratory birds on various points of our coasts. 



The scheme to which we allude is to utilise as observers the 

 keepers of the lighthouses and light -ships situated on various 

 points of the coasts of the British Islands and other countries. 

 The idea of so utilising these men has occurred to more than 

 one ornithologist (amongst others, we believe, to our contributor 

 Colonel Drummond Hay); but it has been left to Messrs Harvie 

 Brown and Cordeaux to take action in the matter, and to these 

 enthusiastic students of nature all praise for independently orig- 

 inating the plan must be given. 



As appears from their " Report on the Migration of Birds in 

 the Autumn of 1879" ('Zoologist,' May 1880), they applied to 

 the keepers of ninety stations, with the result that returns were 

 received from sixty-two^ the others either being unable to make a 

 report owing to the scarcity of birds, or not replying at all. Of 

 the stations applied to, twenty-six were on the east coast of Scot- 

 land, and iJm'ty-four on the west coast — returns being received 

 from thirteen and twenty four respectively. On the east coast 

 of England thirty-seven stations were asked, and twenty-five re- 

 sponded to the appeal. No returns were received from the 

 Manx stations. 



On the whole, the number of replies received was very encour- 

 aging, and we understand that Messrs Harvie Brown and Cor- 

 deaux have this year considerably extended the area of their 

 inquiries. We shall look with interest to the future "reports," 

 of which we hope the one before us is only the first of a long 

 series. F. B. W. 



A NEW THYSANOPTEKOUS INSECT OP THE GENUS PHL(E- 

 OTHEIPS POUND IN SCOTLAND AND DESCKIBED 



By O. jNL REUTER. 

 Phlceothrips setinodis, n. sp. 



NIGRA, nitida, cum pedibus laevis ; capitc latitudine circiter dimidio 

 longiore, planiusculo ; oculis ovalilnis ; antennis, libiis anticis totis, 

 apice tibiarum postcriorum tarsisque omnil)us luteis, his posterioribus apicc 

 fuscescentibus ; antennis arliculo primo, basi secundi octavoque fuscis, 

 articulo tertio duobus ultimis simul sumtis paullo longiore, quarto tcrtio 

 paullo breviore, reliquis apicem versus sensim l)revioribus ; femoribus 

 tarsisque niuticis, illis anticis Icviter incrassatis et posticis tantum paullo 

 crassioribus ; notis setis longis nigris pluribus ereclis. Long. 2^ — 

 2^ mm. 



