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species. Mr.'Willing mentions some talk by farmers of wheat being slightly damaged by an 

 insect, but a report of a more serious nature comes from St. Louis (Sask.), where rye suffered 

 from a stem-midge maggot, which fed within the stem about 1 to 2 feet above ground, and dead- 

 ened the straw before the heads tilled. Several farms, it was stated, bore evidence of the pres- 

 ence of this pest in the rye fields, the heads and straw turning white and dead six weeks before 

 harvest, 



A few more words and I will close the list. I made some mention last year of the liability 

 of the arrival of new pests, to which we, in a new country, were always subject. It woula seem 

 there are this year two absolutely fresh pests to be reported, both of them beetles. One 

 (Trirhahda attennata) i have found in considerable numbers on raspberry canes (eatinj/ the 

 canes bare of leaves), and the other ( DicheloJiycha tedacea) on French beans and other garden 

 stuff. 



With regard to remedies, as I have taken up so much space alieady, I will, if the papers 

 will lend me a column, publish in detail, before the winter closes, those which are recommended 

 for each pest. 



After the close of the discussion consequent on the address Mr. Howson P. Foulger, of 

 Urquhart, near Lacombe, and Dr. A. E. Jamieson, of Lacombe, were elected members of the 

 Society, and the officers of the Society for 1902 were elected. The officers for 1901 were 

 re-elected, with the exception of Mr. W. Wenman (one of the Council), who has left the 

 country, Mr. Foulger accepting office in his place. 



Miss Lucy McL. Howell was then called up and received her prize from the chairman, and 

 the books for prizes Nos. 1 and 2 (Dr. Fletcher's) were selected. 



Acknowledgments of several gifts of insects to the Society's collections were then recorded, 

 and the Report of the Council and the Auditor's Report read and the interesting proceedings 

 terminated. 



Report of the Council. 



On behalf of the Council of the North-West (Canada) Entomological Society the President 

 begs respectfully to submit the following report :-- 



There has been a somewhat drastic remodelling of the Members' Roll. For some two years 

 the Roll has been encumbered with the names of gentlemen who, in the inception of the 

 Society, became admitted as members, but who notwithstanding their membership have done 

 nothing to help it forward. In our articles of constitution there is a clause providing for the 

 automatic removal of such apathetic gentlemen from the Roll in the event of no interest in the 

 Society being evinced by them for a period of eighteen months from enrolment. They cease to 

 be members. These gentlemen occasion needless expense to the Society, and the result of the 

 operation of the above mentioned provision has been that thirty names have been expunged 

 from the Roll. The members helping the Society by cash or kind number thirty-seven. 

 Space will not allow publication of their names, but the President, as the person perhaps most 

 deeply interested in the success of the Society, takes this opportunity to thank each of them, as 

 it were, in person. It would be invidious to single out any individual, as necessarily s 'Uie have 

 more facilities than others ; but all, as the President gratefully believes, support the Society 

 from the purest and most d'sinterested motives. An institution of this kind is not a commercial 

 concern paying dividends, though as an element of civilization such an institution does, it is 

 conceived, benefit the community as a whole. This, however, the President can safely say, that 

 had it not been for the guidance of his steps by Dr. James Fletcher, Dr. L. O. Howard, 

 Mr. C. W. Peterson, Prof. C. C. James, Mr. H. H. Lyman, and the Rev. Dr. Bethune, and 

 encouragement of other gentlemen, his pathway would have been strewn with boulders. 



Additional substantial gifts of Lepidoptera by Messrs. N. B. Sanson, E. F. Heath, and 

 William Wenman, and of Coleoptera by the Rev. Dr. Bethune and Messrs. A. W. Hanham and 



