LEriDOrTERA, ETC., AT SCOTTISH LIGHTHOUSES 133 



1885, and the Silver Gamma, of which one was taken at 

 Skerry vore Lighthouse on 7th October 1885. Other entries 

 are : 



Languard Point Lighthouse {coast of Suffolk). 4th July 1885, 

 at 9.35 p.m. " Millions of very small brown-coloured flies pitched 

 on lantern glass, and to keep the glass clear they had to be washed 

 off. They sting like a mosquito. Wind S." 



Phi tins of Is lay Lighthouse. "Hundreds of moths of various 

 sizes flying about the lantern on 7th Sept." (1885); and, "we have 

 had enormous numbers of what is locally called ' Jenny-long-legs ' 

 about the station for the past three or four weeks." 2nd Aug. 

 (1887) "Clouds of midges round the lantern, and on 13th, from 

 twenty to thirty Daddy-long-legs were captured." 



Fidra Lighthouse [off the coast of East Lothian). " Last month 

 (August 1886) it was moths everywhere, after dark set in. Had 

 to sweep them down with a towel ; some very large and beautiful." 



Tees 5 Buoy Light-vessel. 30th April 1886; wind E., light. 

 "A great many humble-bees and a few wasps during day, flying 

 to N.W. ; several remained on board." 



Coquet Island Lighthouse. 12th September 1886; wind W. 

 " Hundreds of small flies all night in lantern." 



Cockle Light-vessel (off the coast of Norfolk). 14th September 

 1886; 11 a.m., calm. "Great quantities of small bluish coloured 

 flies ; left at 1 p.m." 



Languard Light-vessel. "The mosquitoes have been very 

 numerous throughout the months of July, August, and September 

 (18S6). They have been very troublesome; many people have 

 had swelled hands, puffed faces, and even black eyes, from their 

 stings." 4th Oct. " Ladybirds in large numbers on the break- 

 water at noon, and up to sunset. At 3 p.m. they were in thousands." 



The only reference to insects in Barrington's volume on 

 The Migration of Birds at Irish Light-stations (1900, p. 284) 

 is in the followine terms : 



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"Among insects forwarded, the most interesting was a Locust 

 (Locusta cinerascens), caught at South Arran Island in August 1898 

 (see Irish Naturalist, 1899, p. 249). The Death's Head Moth 

 (Acheron tia atropos) has been received from Coningbeg Lightship, 

 ten miles from shore, and about a dozen times from mainland 

 stations." 



In the Scottish Naturalist for 1891 (p. 40), I recorded a 



