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some power of adaptation of at least certain species of insect 
life which enables them to survive under most unnatural 
conditions.’ 
SCILLIES’ SEALS. 
In Country Life for June 12th, July roth and August 7th, 
Dr. Francis Heatherly contributes a series of very interesting 
articles on ‘ A Sealing Trip to the Scillies ’ which will appeal to 
our readers, especially to those who have followed Mr. Edmund 
Selous’s notes on the same expedition, which have appeared in 
The Naturalist. Dr. Heatherly’s articles are illustrated by a 
wonderful series of photographs of seal life, some of which are 
taken by himself, and others by Mr. C. J. King. We should 
like to take this opportunity of congratulating Country Life 
upon its magnificent illustrations, quite a large number of which 
are of interest to naturalists. There are photographs of giraffes 
and other large animals in Africa, rare fishes, illustrations of 
waste lands and other objects, in fact almost every branch of 
natural history is represented. 
INSECTS AT LIGHTHOUSES.* 
This is a reprint of a paper, put into pamphlet form, parts 
of which appeared at frequent intervals in the Scottish Naturalist 
from March rg14, to June 1915, and a very interesting 
and valuable paper it is. For a number of years Mr. Evans 
has induced the lighthouse keepers of no fewer than thirteen 
lighthouses off the Scottish Coast, to secure and send to him 
such insects of all orders which the lights attracted, as they could 
collect. From these sources he received some 7,500 specimens, 
exclusive of over 2,000 gnats. The species represented num- 
bered 241, of which 161 were lepidoptera (2 butterflies and 
159 moths) ; 18 were neuroptera and trichoptera ; 40 diptera ; 
ro coleoptera ; and 12 of other orders. The great majority 
were of course insects attracted from the nearest mainland, but 
there is little doubt that the three Hawk moths attracted 
(1 Acherontia atropos and 2 Sphinx convolvult) were immigrants. 
Naturally immigration in insects is much better shown by the 
lighthouses on our south coast than by those so far north. Full 
lists of the species are given, and serve the very useful purpose 
of shewing their distribution on the Scottish Coast. 
DASYPOLIA TEMPLI. 
A remarkable instance of this occurs in the case of Dasypolia 
templ1. At one time regarded as almost exclusively a South 
West Yorkshire moth, lighthouses have proved that it is pro- 
bably common throughout Britain, or at any rate nearly all 
around the coast. Common at the Scottish lighthouses, it is 
* «Lepidoptera and other Insects at Scottish Lighthouses.’ By William - 
Evans, F.R.S:E. 
1915 Nov. 1. 
