The nematine genus Dineura has had assigned to it at various times several species of nearctic sawflies. A close study of these species indicates that Dineura itself is not represented in our fauna, but instead three genera which resemble it in wing venation. This complex was considered by MacGillivray as the sub-family Dineurinae, but as pointed out by Rohwer it is in reality part of the Nematinae. The three genera involved may be separated from the other Nematinae by having the front wings with the base of vein 2A and 3A absent and the second radial cross-vein (2r) present. The extreme differences between the genera suggest strongly that the segregate is purely an artificial one based only on accidental similarity in venation.

In a box of Coleoptera sent me by Mr. C. P. Alexander of the Massachusetts State College for determination I found the following interesting records:

Pachyta liturata Kby. One specimen bearing the label, “Northwest River, Lab. VIII-15-1929. Coll. F. C. Sears.”

Anoplodera hirtella Lec. One specimen with the label, “Northwest River, Lab. Summer of 1933. F. C. Sears Coll.” This may be a synonym of tibialis Lec.

Among the material sent for identification by Mr. J. L. Sperry was a small series of what appears to be a new species of Pherne; at any rate the specimens do not agree with any of the three species at present listed under this generic name and figured in the Barnes and McDunnough “Contributions” III, Pl. XV, figs 7, 8. 14. As is usual the antennae are bipectinate in both sexes, the pectinations in the female being distinct but much shorter than in the male; the palpi are distinctly shorter than in subpunctata Hlst.; the apical portion of the outer margin of primaries is less excavated and the angle at vein 5 less sharp than in the other members of the genus.

In 1924 (Proc. U. S. N, M. Vo1. 64, Art. 20, pp. 4-6) Cushman reviewed the North American species of Cidaphus pointing out diagnostic characters for the separation of C. paniscoides from two species which he described as new under the names C. occidentalis and C. australis. At that time the only Canadian record for a member of the genus was that of the female type specimen of occidetalis from Revelstroke, B. C. The distribution given for paniscoides, N. H., N. Y., Pa. and Md. indicated that this species also probably would be found to occur in Canada.