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season and 191 3 a bad, just the reverse of the Aberdeenshire 

 conditions. At Blakeney in 191 3 there was "a most un- 

 fortunate mortality among the young, three-fourths of which 

 were lying dead on the sand, and other downy mites were 

 scarcely able to crawl. The watcher in charge considered 

 that they had been starved by lack of whitebait, their usual 

 food, he having opened several nestlings and found no food 

 in them. Mr William Rowan, who was staying at the Point 

 some ten days later, remarked on the whitebait to be seen 

 lying about in numbers among the Terns' nests, whither 

 they had been brought by the parent birds for their dying 

 young, by that time too feeble to eat them, or it may have 

 been that the fish were too large." (J. H. Gurney, " Ornitho- 

 logical Report for Norfolk (1913)," Zoologist, 1914, p. 174.) 



LEPIDOPTERA (MOTHS) AND OTHER INSECTS 

 AT SCOTTISH LIGHTHOUSES, CHIEFLY IN 

 THE FORTH AREA. 



By William Evans, F.R.S.E. 



{Continued from page 256.) 



Tripiicena iatithina, Esp. 



Isle of May: one (3), 6th August 1911J one on or about 

 1 st August 1 91 3, one on 13th, and one on 29th (all 3)- 



Tripiuzna comes, Hb. {orboiia, Dbld. Cat.). 



Isle of May: one on night of 14th August 1911; one (6*) in 

 latter part of August 191 2 ; four (3) on night of 27th August 191 3 ; 

 two on 25th July 1914, and one in beginning of August. 



St Abb's Head: three, night of 29th August 1913; two, night 

 of 1 st August 1 9 14. 



Barnsness: two in end of July 1914. 



Triphcena pronuba, L. (Large Yellow Underwing). 



Isle of May : Though this well-known moth is a frequent 

 visitor to the lantern, it does not appear in very large numbers. 

 Disregarding the earlier and less exact records (September 1885, 



