402 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows : 



President— ]2imt?, Fletcher, LL.D., F. R. C. S., F. L. S., Entomologist 

 and Botanist of the Experimental Farms, Ottawa. 



Vice-President — Tennyson D. Jarvis, B. S. A., Lecturer in Entomology 

 and Zoology, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. 



Secretary — L. Caesar, B. A., O. A. College, Guelph. 



Treasurer—?). B. McCready, B. A., Professor of Botany and Nature 

 Study, O. A. College and Macdonald Institute, Guelph. 



Librarian— Rqv. C J. S. Bethune, M. A , D. C. L., F. R. S. C, 

 Professor of Entomology and Zoology, O. A. College, Guelph. 



Curator — J. Eaton Howitt, B. S. A., Lecturer in Botany, O. A. 

 College, Guelph. 



Directors : Division No. i — C. H. Young, Ottawa. 

 Division No. 2 — C. E. Grant, Orillia. 

 Division No. 3 — J. B. Williams, Toronto. 

 Division No. 4 — C W. Nash, Toronto. 

 Division No. 5— George E. Fisher, Burlington. 

 Division No. 6 — J. A. Balkwill, London. 



Auditors— B. Barlow, B. S., and J. Crow, B. S. A., Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College, Guelph. 



Editor of the " Canadian Entomologist "—Rev. Prof Bethune, 

 Guelph. 



Editing Committee— 'Dr. Fletcher, Ottawa; H. H. Lyman, Montreal; 

 I. D. Evans, Trenton : Prof. Lochhead, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, P. Q.; G. 

 E. Fisher, Burlington ; J. B. Williams and C W. Nash, Toronto. 



Delegate to the Royal Society- -.\ri\\nx Gibson, Ottawa. 



NOTES ON THE COLLECTING OF STHENOPIS (HEPIALUS) 



THULE.* 



BY E. DENNY, MONTREAL. 



Very little appears to have been written by entomologists on the above 

 subject, and no doubt the cause is due to the conditions that surround the 

 life habits of these mysterious moths. In the first place, there is a good 

 deal of uncertainty as to the time of their flight or appearance. Secondly, 

 the distance to be travelled to reach their haunts often means the loss of 

 much valuable time to the collector ; and thirdly, the exceedingly short 



*Read at the Annual Meeting of the Entomolog-ical Society of Ontario, 

 Guelph, .Nov. I, 1907. 

 December, 1907 



