1915 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 59 



ELECTION OF OFFICEES. 



The meeting then proceeded witli the election of officers. (See page 6.) 



The President: The meeting is now open to receive nominations for mem- 

 bership in the society. 



Pkoe. Lociiiiead: Besides the names of those who have already been sent in, 

 I would beg to nominate our friend Father Leopold, of the Trappe, as a mem- 

 ber. He has taken a great deal of interest in horticultural work — thai is his 

 speciality — but he is also a missionary or instructor of entomology amongst the 

 French-Canadian students at Quebec. He is doing excellent work and Avill be one 

 of the most valued members of our society, and the fact that he has taken the 

 trouble to come up here on this occasion shows that he has an interest in the 

 work. I have much pleasure in presenting Father Leopold as a member. 



Mk. Gibson: I take much pleasure in seconding that motion. We have 

 known for many years of the splendid work which Father I^eopold has accom- 

 plished for the Province of Quebec, and I am sure that his identity with our 

 society now will be a great help to all of us. 



I would also like to take this opportunity of nominating Mr. J. C. Chapaie 

 as a member of the society. 



The President: I think the society will feel it a privilege to elect tliese two 

 members. As I pointed out in my Presidential Address, they have each done 

 most valuable work of a pioneer character in entomology in Quebec, and will 

 certainly be an additional source of strength to the society, an<l, therefore, in 

 putting their names to the meeting for election I should like you to show your 

 appreciation of their work hy a unanimous election. 



The Secretary then read letters from various distinguished entomologists in 

 the United States who had been invited to the Society's meeting, but had been 

 unable to be present. 



The President: Prof. Loclihead is down on the programme for a paper on 

 "The Injurious Insects of Quebec in 1914," but 1 unders'tand that he has also 

 prepared an account of the work of Fabre, the celebrated French entomologist, 

 whose work has come so much to the front during the last year or two. I, there- 

 fore, suggest that Prof. Lochhead give us a very brief note of the insects of Que- 

 bec, and then read to us his paper on Fabre. 



BRIEF NOTES ON SOME OF THE INJURIOUS INSECTS OF QUEBEC, 



1914.' 



W. Lochhead, Macdonald College, Que. 



Climatic and other conditions have apparently been somewhat unfavourable 

 to the development of injurious insects in Quebec. Dry weather prevailed during 

 April, May and June. Over Western Quebec there occurred a period of twenty- 

 six days — in May and June — when no rain fell. The summer of 1913 was also a 

 dry one, and under such conditions for two successive seasons some insect forms 

 tended to multiply. The Army-worm and the Red-Backed Cutworm (Euxoa 

 ochrogaster) appeared in large numbers in some localities, the former doimr damage 

 in Pontiac County, and the latter in many sections, more especially to corn and 

 roots. 



