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As already recorded {Scot. Nat., 1915, p. 335), Mr R. Wilson^ 

 captureda Death's-head Hawk-moth {Acherontza atropos) at 

 Skerryvore, on the i8th of September — a notable occurrence. 

 It is a male, and made its appearance with a south-easterly 

 wind. From Mr Clyne, a box containing a couple of dozen 

 moths taken at the Butt of Lewis lantern was received in 

 October ; as in the two previous years, Dasypolia templi was 

 among them, being this time represented by nine males and 

 three females. 



In the third week of August Mr M'Eachern sent me 

 a number of moths and three caddis-flies taken on various 

 dates at the North Unst (Muckle Flugga) lighthouse and 

 shore establishment ; these comprise about a dozen additions 

 to the list previously given from this remote station. Two of 

 them, Aphelia ossemia and Plutella annulatella, are, moreover, 

 additions to the general list. 



Referring to the published records of occurrences of 

 moths at lighthouses on the coasts of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, cited in the second section of my original Report, 

 attention should also be called to the following sentences in 

 Mr W. F. de V. Kane's account of the Lepidoptera collected 

 on Clare Island in the west of Ireland. " Further disappoint- 

 ment," he writes, "was caused by the almost complete 

 failure of the lighthouse lantern to attract night-flying 

 moths, which was attributed by the lighthouse keeper (who 

 was familiar with this method) to' the constant high winds 

 which sweep the lofty cliffs on which the buildings stand. 

 Dicranura v inula, Saturnia pavonia, Arctia caja, and a few 

 common Noctuse were the only captures at the lamp " 

 {Clare Island Survey, part 26, p. 2, 191 2). 



In thanking, as I now do, those light-keepers who have 

 sent specimens during the past year, I venture to ask that 

 they will not forget us in 1916 should opportunities occur, 

 and to express the hope that the time may not be far off 

 when a return to more normal conditions will bring us not 



' Mr Wilson, I regret to say, died in the beginning of February 

 1916. His cordial and enthusiastic assistance in this investigation 

 while he was stationed on the Isle of May, I have already acknowledged, 

 and shall always bear in grateful remembrance. 



