1388.] 205 



Rhinns of Islay Lighthouse, facing north coast of Ireland. Hundreds of moths 

 are reported flying about the lantern on Sept. 7th, also on night of Sept. 3rd. — "We 

 have had an enormous number of what are locally called ' Jenny Long-legs ' about 

 the station for the past three or four weeks, and in the morning there are great 

 numbers of their legs and wings on the pavement. This morning, after putting out 

 the light, I watched, when I saw about twenty ' mosscheepers ' {i.e. Pipits) working 

 hard to make their breakfasts from them. I never before saw so many ' Long-legs ' 

 in the fall. There is a usual run in April." (Messrs. Peter Anderson and James 

 Ducat). 



MiGEATioy Eeport, 1886. 



Fidra Lighthouse, East Coast, Scotland, under date Sept. 18th, Mr. Eoss says: — 

 " Had I known moths would have been of any use to you, I believe I coiild have 

 given you a varied, rare, and enormous parcel. Last month it was moths everywhere 

 after darkness set in — I had to sweep them down with a towel, some very large and 

 beautiful." # * * " One beautiful specimen — not a moth, I think — of a size 

 between a daddy long-legs and dragon-fly, and much the same shape ; enormous 

 bronze wings, beautiful vermilion body, black head, with a red (or yellow ?) streak 

 (or spot ?), and antenna; more like a young lobster than any thing else." 



Tees 5m Buoy Lightvessel, April 30th, 1886, Wind E., light. — " A great many 

 bumble-bees and a few wasps during day, flying to N.W., several remained on board." 



Coquet Island Lighthouse, Sept. 12th, W. (5) — "Hundreds of small flies all 

 night in lantern." 



Cockle Lightvessel, K"orfolk Coast, Sept. 14th, 11 a.m., calm. — "Q-reat quantities 

 of bluish-coloured flies — left again at 1 p.m." 



Langiiard Lighthouse, September. — "The musquitoes," Mr. Owen Boyle writes. 

 " have been very numerous throughout the months of July, August, and September, 

 They have been very troublesome ; some people had swelled hands, pufi^ed faces, 

 and even black eyes from their stings." Oct. 4th. — " Ladybirds in large numbers 

 on the breakwater at noon and up to sunset. At 3 p.m. they were to be seen in 

 thousands." 



Hanois Lighthouse, Guernsey, Oct. 3l8t, 8 p.m. — -"A quantity of silver gamma 

 moths, also a few brown ones, but smaller than the gamma." 



January, 1888. 



ASPIDIOTUS ZONATUS, EEAUENFELD. 

 BY ALBERT C. P. MOEGAN, F.E.S, 



AspiDiOTUS zoxATUs, Frauenf., Yerhandl. z.-b. Gesells. Wieu, 1868, 

 p. 888 ; Sign., Ess. Cochen., pp. 109, 511, 630, pi. i, fig. 14 ; 

 Doug., Ent. Mo. Mag., xxiii, pp. 150, 151. 



AsPiDiOTUS QTTEECirs, Sign., Ess. Cochen., pp. 106, 511. 



During the month of October last, and since, I have found in the 

 neighbourhood of Oporto, in two situations, some distance from, each 

 other, an Aspidiotus, on the backs of the leaves of an oak (Qaercus 

 rohu)\ var. pedunculata). The leaves were inhabited bv both m.ale and 

 female scales, although the former were more numerous than the 

 latter. 



