10 OCTOBER 1947, Page 14

Northern Visitors

In the records of the exceptional immigration of moths and butterflies of this year (especially of White, Clouded Yellow and Hawlonoths) little has been said of their extension to the North. Edinburgh, for example, has been included. One would have expected more accounts from ships ; but one ex-sailor reports to me that he well remembers a Humming-Bird Hawk Moth appearing on shipboard off the Moray Firth. Ships have probably brought to our shores even the Monarch Butterfly, said by some to be capable of flying the Atlantic.