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A curious completely suffused specimen of Argynnis bellona. 



Phragmatobia assimilans, var. franconia Sloss. 



Hyphoraia parllienos, the outer brown band on secondaries reduced to dots. 



Graptolitha hemina. (This specimen was compared with Grote's type in the 

 British Museum by Mr. Lyman and positively identified.) 



Leiicohrephos hreplioides. 



Cossus centerensis. 



Cossus undosus? 



Sthenopis argenteoiiiacitlatus. 



Hepialus hyperhoretis. 



Dr. Walker exhibited a case containing the nymphs or larvae of the following 

 species of Canadian Aeshninae (a group of large dragon-flies) : Boyeria vinosa, B. 

 grafiana, Basiaeschna Janata, Nasiaeschna pentacantlia, Anax Junius, Aeshna juncea, 

 eremita, interrupta (?), clepsydra, canadensis, palmata, umhrosa, constricta, cali- 

 fornica and multicolor. This includes all the known nymphs of North American 

 species of Aeshna. He also showed an aberrant specimen of the butterfly Char- 

 idryas nycteis and the galls of tliree species of Chermes from black and white 

 spruce in Ontario. 



At eleven o'clock the election of officers for the year 1910-1911 was proceeded 

 with and Dr. E. M. Walker was unanimously elected President and Dr. C. Gordon 

 Hewitt Vice-President. The complete list is given on page 9. 



The following resolution, moved by Mr. Henry H. Lyman and seconded by Mr. 

 Arthur Gibson, was adopted: — 



" That Past Presidents of the Society be invited to present to the Society framed 

 photographs of themselves taken on a plate 10 by 8 inches with mat or border not 

 over 3 inches wide, and that in the case of deceased Presidents the Council endeavour 

 to have similar portraits prepared where photographs can be obtained for enlarge- 

 ment." 



Professor J. M. Swaine, of Macdonald College, St. Anne de Belleville, P.Q., 

 addressed the Society as follows: — 



Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, — I have the honour this afternoon to represent 

 officially the Quebec Society for the Protection of Plants. Two years ago, at a 

 meeting at Macdonald College, we formed a society which we called The Quebec 

 Society for the Protection of Plants from Insect Pests and Fungus Diseases. The 

 name is rather long but it expresses very well our purpose. The Society receives 

 financial assistance from the Quebec Government, and is thereby enabled to publish 

 an annual report. Prof. Lochhead has been our President since the organization of 

 the Society. We hold two meetings annually — a winter meeting, so far held at 

 Macdonald College, at which papers are read, and business is transacted; and a 

 summer meeting at La Trappe. This summer meeting lasts for two days and is 

 devoted chiefly to collecting and discussions. La Trappe is an excellent collecting 

 ground, and we have always a delightful outing among the beautiful orchards 

 and vineyards and fine farms of those most hospitable gentlemen, the Trappist 

 Fathers and Brothers. 



Our members are few as yet, but we are ambitious, and hope to do something 

 in the way of investigation and distribution among the Quebec farmers of a knowl- 

 edge of the methods of controlling injurious fungi and insects which will justify 

 our existence as a society. 



I have then, sir, the privilege this afternoon of presenting to you and your 

 Society the greetings and the good wishes of the Quebec Society for the Protection 

 of Plants. 



