1919 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 15 



The following were elected to the several offices for the year 1918: — 



Hon. President F. Kermode, Provincial Museum. 



President R. S. Sherman, Vancouver, B.C. 



Vice-President (Interior) J. W. Cockle, Kaslo, B.C. 



Vice-President (Coast) Wm. Downes, Victoria, B.C. 



Hon, Secretary-Treasurer William Hugh, Box 20, Cloverdale, B.C. 



Advisory Board Messrs. E. H. Blackmoue, R. C. Treheune, 



G. 0. Day, A. W. Hannam. L. A. Breun. 



The Society offered the Vancouver Exhibition Association two prizes for the 

 host collection of types of beneficial and injurious insects put up by school children. 



REPORT OF THE NOVA SCOTIA BRANCH. 



Since our last report was presented to our parent Society a new number of 

 our " Proceedings "' has been issued, comprising approximately 100 pages and 

 including considerable new data on Nova Scotian insects and the problems con- 

 nected with their control. Another Annual Meeting was held on July 26th of the 

 present year, when a number of papers were read by the members and a successful 

 session was held. The speaker of the occasion was Mr. J. D. Tothill, of the 

 Dominion Entomological Branch, who gave a paper on '" The Meaning of Natural 

 Control." The following officers for the year were elected : — 



Honorary President Dr. A. H. McKay, Halifax. 



President L. A. De Wolfe, Truro. 



Secretary-Treasurer W. H. Brittain, Truro. 



Asst. Secretary-Treasurer E. C. Allen, Truro. 



Committee A. Kelsall, Annapolis Royal, and Miss Atleen 



Henderson, Lawreneetown. 



Like all other organizations our Society has suffered many inroads in its 

 membership on account of the war. In spite of this we have been able to keep up 

 our members to the pre-war level and are particularly fortunate in the fact that 

 none of our members who have gone overseas have actually lost their lives in the 

 great struggle. With the return of peace time conditions and the removal of 

 all hindrances to our expansion, we are hopeful of healthy, vigorous growth from 

 now on. 



W. H. Brittain", Secretary. 



REPORTS ON INSECTS FOR THE YEAR. 

 Division No. 3, Toronto District — A. Cosens. 



The unusual abundance of the Monarch, Anosia plexippus, during the past 

 two years, led me to hope that this season I could obtain a series of notes that 

 would be of interest concerning this wide-ranging Canadian butterfly. 



In looking over these notes, however, I find only a few of sufficient importance 

 to include in this report. This was owing chiefly to the butterflies not being 

 sufficiently numerous to prevent an ebbtide in the enthusiasm of the early part 

 of the se'SS?^. 



