106 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The Council has appointed the members hereafter named to be a 

 Committee to ascertain what response might be forthcoming to an appeal 

 for contributions towards such a memorial. 



Will you kindly inform the Secretary the amount you are agree- 

 able to subscribe to this fund and send it at your earliest convenience to 

 the Secretary-Treasurer of the Committee. 



Committee: A. K. Attwood, M.A., President, O. F. N. C; T. E. 

 Clarke, B. A., Secretary, O. F. N. C ; Arthur Gibson, Treasurer, O. F.N. C; 

 Hon. Sydney A Fisher, B.A., Minister of Agriculture; W. Saunders, 

 C.M.G., LL.D., F.L.S., F.R.S.C., Director of Dominion Experimental 

 Farms ; E. R. Cameron, M. A., K.C, Registrar, Supreme Court ; R. B. 

 Whyte, Vice-President of Ontario Horticultural Association ; Frank T. 

 Shutt, M.A., F.I.C., F.C.S., F.R.S.C, Chemist, Dominion Experimental 

 Farms; A. McNeill, Chief of Fruit Division, Dept. of Agriculture ; H. M. 

 Ami, M.A.. D.Sc, F.G.S., F.R.S.C, Assistant Paleontologist of the 

 Geological Survey. 



Signed on behalf of the Committee, 



K. R. CAMERON, Chairman. 

 ARTHUR GIBSON, Secretary- Treasurer. 



(Central Experimental Farm. ) 



NOTES ON TENTHREDINOIDEA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF 



NEW SPECIES. 



l'.\ S. A. ROHWER, BOULDER, COLO.' 



Paper IV. 

 (New Species of Tenthredo. ) 



Tenthredo melltpes, n. sp. 



Female: Length, 9 mm. Clypeus deeply, squarely notched ; labrum 

 rounded at the apex, fringed with long hairs ; malar space distinct, but 

 not very wide ; frontal carinae large at the base (/'. e., at the antennae), 

 larger than in rufipes, Say ; frontal furrows distinct, reaching to the 

 occiput ; the furrow behind the ocelli indistinct. Third antennal joint 

 longer than the fourth by about a third. Scutellum dull, rather densely 

 punctured, the punctures coarser than those of the rest of the thorax. 

 Tarsal claws with a tooth about a third of the length of the claw from 

 the apex. The tran. rad. in about the middle of the third cubital cell. 

 Abdomen more shining than the thorax. Colour black j labrum, apical 



April, 1909 



