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however, tliat the insect enemies of this scale will soon get the upper hand 

 and keep it in check. 



The Spruce Gall Louse (Chermes ahietis) is extending its range every 

 year, but in the older sections the parasities are apparently keeping it in 

 check. There are two broods annually; the eggs of the first brood appear 

 in May in fluffy masses on the affected spruce twigs, the second in August. 



Judicious pruning when practicable, and applications of kerosene-soap 

 solution in May when the larvae are hatching will do much to prevent the 

 spread of this insect. 



The Tussock Moth {Orgyia leuco stigma) was very injurious in our large 

 cities, but much information has been written in this and previous reports 

 regarding it, and it is only necessary here to note its occurrence. 



EEPOET OF THE BRITISH COLUMBIA BEANCH OF THE ENTOMO- 

 LOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTAEIO FOE THE TEAE 1905. 



The fourth annual meeting was held February 6th, 1905, at the Queen's 

 School, Vancouver. There were present Eev. G. W. Taylor (President) in 

 the chair, T. Wilson (Vice-President), E. V. Harvey (Secretary-Treasurer), 

 A. H. Bush, E. S. Sherman, E. Draper and J. Towler. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 



The Treasurer presented the balance sheet for the year 1904, which was 

 passed. 



The retiring officers were re-elected for the ensuing year. 

 _ It was unanimously resolved that the British Columbia Entomological 

 Society should become an affiliated branch of the Entomological Society of 

 Ontario, and the Secretary was empowered to conduct the necessary negotia- 

 tions. 



The Society now numbers nineteen active members ; eight of these reside 

 in the neighborhood of Vancouver, but the rest are so widely scattered through 

 the Province as to make representative gatherings difficult, and severely 

 handicap co-operation in entomological studies. 



Individual members, however, have done good work, and the forthcoming 

 list of B. C. Lepidoptera, compiled by Eev. G. W. Taylor, besides his papers 

 on our Geometridae, which will appear shortly, will show how much has been 

 accomplished in the last few years. 



In other orders various members are rapidly accumulating valuable 

 notes and extensive collections : in the Coleoptera, Messrs. Taylor, Hanham, 

 and others; in Hymenoptera, Mr. Venables; in Diptera, Messrs. Venables, 

 Sherman and Harvey. 



The season of 1905 was not notable for either abundance of insects or 

 particularly interesting captures. It is worth noting that a moth hitherto 

 regarded as extremely rare, Lepisesia flavo fas data, var, ulaluvie, Strk., was 

 taken in some numbers both by Mr. Taylor at Wellington and by several 

 Vancouver collectors round cherry and apple blossom in early spring. Mr. 

 Venables of Vernon records the capture of a specimen of a fine Sphingid, 

 Marvmha modesta. 



E. V. HAEVEY, 



Dec. 30th, 1905. Hon. Secretary-Treasurer. 



