Until recently only one species of this genus was recognized in North America–Menopsimus caducus Dyar. In a paper of 1919, Synonymical Notes Relating to Menopsimus caducus Dyar (Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., Vol. 51, No. 2, p. 74), Mr. J. G. Franclemont estabiished that caducus and fractilinea Sm. represent two distinct species, congeneric with the European one known as Tholomyges turfosalis Wocke, and showed that both Tholomyges Lederer and Menopsimus Dyar fall to Hypenodes Doubleday. Since that time, three more unnamed species have been found, bringing the total for North America to five. All of these, as far as is known, are restricted to the north-eastern region.

The literature dealing with the coleopterous fauna of Nova Scotia is extremely scanty, the old lists of Jones (1869) and Evans (1899) still being the most comprehensive treatments of the subject. Leng (19201, it is true, interested principally in limital records, indicated in his catalogue the presence in Nova Scotia of all species known by him to occur there. But a list compiled from his catalogue is far from complete. Of recent papers, two by Brown (1910, 1950) on introduced European species are the most interesting.

The pine leaf miner (Exoteleia pinifoliella (Chamb.)), a native insect attacking several species of thick-needled pines (1), is generally distributed throughout the Atlantic States from Southern Ontario (4) to Georgia (3). In the vicinity of Syracuse, N.Y., there is but one generation a year. The insect overwinters in the larval form, begins pupation in early May, and flight and oviposition take place a month later.

There are many papers on the effects of meteorological factors on insects, but only a few state these effects in terms of large-scale weather processes. Even fewer report the logical condusion of such studies: prediction of the biological phenomena with the aid of modern methods of weather analysis and forecasting.

Ceratophyllus swansoni Liu, 1935, was described from one male and one female specimen collected from a long-eared owl, “Asio wilsonianus” [A. otus ssp.], at Fertile, Minnesota. The species is not well known in collections, and the writer knows of only one other published record, from Beaverhead Co., Montana, reared from nests of the same owl (Jellison et al., 1943). The host affinities of C. swansoni have remained uncertain, as predatory birds are not usually normal hosts of fleas.