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mens gave this data. "From G. N. Wolcott, I have received 

 Porto Rico accession 3011 — 1913. Egg parasite of Diatrcea sac- 

 charalis Fabr." The number 3011 is doubtless a misprint for the 

 number on the specimens, namely, 311. The locality is new. 



Another vial of alcohol bearing one male, twenty-three females 

 and the label, "Reared from eggs of Diatrcea saccharalis, Trinidad, 

 B. W. I., November, 1912. F. W. Urich. Ac. No. of D. L. Van 

 Dine 181 — 1913." In several of these specimens the posterior line 

 of discal cilia in the hind wings was quite complete and six cilia 

 in the oblique line from the stigmal vein rather common. The 

 abdomen was dusky, with a darker stripe across the base. 



A third vial bearing a large number of both sexes of minutum 

 and these labels "Ac. No. of D. L. Van Dine 182—1913. Parasites 

 bred from the egg-masses of Diatrcea saccharalis. G. E. Bodkin, 

 Georgetown, British Guiana, July 20, 1912." In these specimens 

 the abdomen was dusky or else concolorous. The locality new. 



And a fourth vial containing two males, twenty six females, 

 bearing the labels "Reared from eggs of Diatrcea saccharalis. Ac. 

 No. 172—1913. D. L. Van Dine. Porto Rico." The exact 

 locality was Guanica and the collector Mr. H. Bourne. The date 

 March 4, 1913; parasites issued four days later. 



It is interesting to be able to record this parasite from the 

 same host at the same time from such widely separated localities. 



FIELD NOTES AND QUESTIONS. 



Early Appearance of Pontia Rapce. 



On February 24th, of this year, a freshly emerged specimen of 

 the "imported white butterfly" flew into an open window of a 

 house in this city. It was promptly captured, and turned out to 

 be P. rapce var. marginalis, which is the early spring form of rapce 

 in this district. This is the earliest record that we have in Victoria 

 —the nearest to it being March 28, 1903, recorded by Mr. E. M. 

 Anderson. Perhaps a few dates of the Lepidoptera that have 

 appeared during March may be of interest to our Eastern collectors: 



Xylomiges Candida, March 7th. 

 Xylomiges hiemalis, March 17th. 



