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sacchari of Guilding, who rera it in 1828 from specimens 
ound in the Island of St. cent. There isa brief notice, with 
figures, given in the ey Slee. 1894 (pp. 152 and wee 
A fuller Mee with a bibliography, is that of Mr. T. 
Cockerell in the Jamaica Bulletin, April, 1892. Bothin the oo 
Ug eet cited above and in standard works dealing with the subject 
t has been suggested that n species also infests mapas canes in 
ane and other parts of the East Indies Some confusion in 
consequence has arisen in bords to its distributio 
ccording to a note in the Comptes fondue. (exxv., hn 
pp. Duck by M. Ediibnd Bordage, Director of the Muse 
striatalis, Sailan This, it is said, was originally piden 
rom Ceylon into Mauritius in Sar: with sugar canes. It is n 
widely spre uy in the East Indie 
The distinction between D. dico and D. striatalis, we 
are informed by Mr. W. F. Blandford, F.Z.S., was established by 
Sn Am in 059 ae OE van het Proefstation voor Suikerriet in 
Wes a (1890, pp. 94 et s/q., tt. i. and ii.) ; also in Tijdschrift 
voor "Pele. clip 1892, p. 349, t. xix., figs. 1-4). 
t would appear, therefore, that D. saccharalis is of New World 
origin, but apparently not now entirely confined to that hemi- 
sphere. It may have been “the worm eating the sugar canes’ 
recorded 1 by Hans Soans in Jamaica in 1725. It has since been 
found in nearly every put of tropical x Sees: while in the 
United States it attacks not only sugar cane, but also maize and 
sorghum. According to iie it is reported as *injuring sugar 
cane " in India 
D. "n iatalis, on the other hand, is apparently entirely an Old 
World species. Is has not hit erto been recorded fr Mes any part 
of the New "World, but in the interchange of sugar & plants 
from one side to the other there is little doubt it will peed cares 
be introduced there. Its present area of distribution includes 
Ceylon, Mauritius, Java, Dingue, Sumatra, and Borneo. 
M. Bordage draws attention to yet another su borer in 
Sesamia nonagrioides. This was first observed sitackhbg maize 
Algiers it attacked both sugar cane and sorghum. It may prove to 
be the sugar-cane borer of the Canary Islands (Kew Bulletin, 1894, 
p. 177). Snellen describes a variety, albiciliata, as attacking 
sugar cane in Celebes and Java. From the latter it is supposed 
to have been introduced to the Mascarene Islands and Madagascar. 
Spurious St. Ignatius Beans._Under the name ^s * Ignatia 
amara Beans," from Matto Grosso, Central Brazil, some broken 
seed pods were recently submitted to Kew for Aeta It 
was at once evident that they were not the produce of Strychnos 
Ignatii, Berg—a large climbing shrub of the Philippines, which 
furnishes all the St. Ignatius ‘beans of pharmacists. Md were 
evidently portions of winged pods of a leguminous plant belong- 
ing to the tribe Dalbergiew. Upon cutting through shoes ie they 
were found to be highly charged with a a pale yellowish fluid 
balsam, and upon further comparison there was but very little 
