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injury. Many early varieties of apple had been picked and shipped 

 at the time of the second examination. Consequently this fact, 

 coupled with the lateness of the season which was towards the end 

 of the flight period of the adults, probably accounts for the paucity 

 of material. 



So far as the distribution of this species of fly on the Pacific 

 coast is concerned, I am indebted to Dr. J. M. Aldrich and to 

 Mr. Henry H. Severin for drawing my attention to some of the 

 following records: Five specimen^ were collected by Mr. O. T. 

 Baron, in the southern part of the State of California. These 

 were described by Snow as Rhagoletis zephyria, n. sp., (Kansas 

 Univ. Quart., II, No. 3, pp. 164-165) in 1894. R. W. Doane, in 

 1898 (Ent. News, IX, p. 69), and J. M. Aldrich in 1909, (Can. Ent., 

 XLI, p. 69) state that R. zephyria is a synonym of R. pomonella. 

 Since the record of 1894, apparently, no further remarks on its 

 existence have been made in California. Dr. Aldrich further 

 states, in correspondence, that his cards show that the insect has 

 been recorded from the eastern slope of Colorado (Colorado Springs, 

 Fort Collins). No information is available that the species exists 

 in the State of Oregon, but Dr. A. L. Melander (Bull. No. 103, 

 Wash. Agr. Exp. Sta., Dec. 1911) states that it "has been recorded 

 as destructive along the eastern border" of the State of Washing- 

 ton. He remarks, however, that there is no positive evidence 

 of its occurrence in Washington orchards. 



Consequently the record for British Columbia stands very 

 nearly as a unique one for the Pacific Coast. Fortunately it evi- 

 dently does not exist in numbers at present in British Columbia, 

 otherwise its presence would have been observed on earlier oc- 

 casions. Even yet no definite form of larval injury has been 

 observed, and the record, thus far, exists only in the form of the 

 capture of two adult flies. It is inferesting to note, however, 

 that Mr. E. H. Strickland, Field Ofiticer, Entomological Branch, 

 Dominion Department of Agriculture, captured a single specimen 

 of this fiy at Lethbridge, Alta., in 1914. There is little doubt that 

 the insect emerged from imported fruit, and as the Province of 

 Alberta is supplied more commonly with western fruit than eastern, 

 the record suggests an interesting probability. 



