8 B. C. ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



During the past year we have had several new members, and I have 

 made it my business to write to each of them, extending a hearty wel- 

 come on behalf of the Society and ascertaining what particular field of 

 endeavour they were most interested in. By giving this information to 

 the members here assembled, those that are working along similar lines 

 could get in touch with these new members and possibly form associa- 

 tions which would eventually prove of mutual help and benefit, both to 

 themselves and the Society. Mr. \V. R. S. Metcalfe, who is now located 

 at Peachland, is an ardent student of certain families in the order 

 Hemiptera. Mr. W. Sykes, who is a school teacher at McAllister, is 

 taking up the Diptera, and should be able to add many species new to 

 British. Columbia, as he lives in a district from which very little material 

 has been taken. Mr. A. W. A. Phair, of Lillooet, is a very enthusiastic 

 collector of Lepidoptera, and will be a valuable addition to. our Society. 



Out of a large number of noctuid moths, brovight down by him for 

 identification last November, there are no less than eleven species new 

 to British Columbia. 



Mr. H. P. Eldridge, now residing in this city, is a keen student of 

 Coleoptera, specializing among the smaller forms, and I look forward to 

 his doing some good work in the near future. Last but not least is our 

 worthy friend, Mr. W. B. Anderson, who is pretty well known to the 

 most of you. He has been appointed to the position of Inspector of 

 Indian Orchards, rendered vacant by the death of our late lamented 

 member, Mr. Tom Wilson. Mr. Anderson is an accomplished botanist, 

 and is rapidly becoming a keen entomologist, and as his duties take him 

 into parts of the Province where very little collecting has been done 

 previously, I feel sure that we shall lienefit greatly by his membership. 



By some of you I may be accused of introducing what may be termed 

 as too much of the personal element, but I have felt for some time that 

 we, as individual members, are so far apart, and in some cases isolated 

 from each other, that we do not really know what each of us is doing, 

 and I have taken this means of bringing the work of each to the atten- 

 tion of all. 



During the past two years a very large number of species have been 

 added to our previously known records, not in one order alone hut in 

 practically every order. I have not had the time to compile the e.xact 

 number of species that have been thus added to our list, but I can say 

 this, that nearly every active member of our Society has contributed 

 more or less towards them. 



In searching through the Entomological publications for the past 

 two years, insofar as they were available to me, I have found that 33 

 insects new to science were described from British Columbia, represent- 

 ing 4 different orders. Of these, Lepidoptera claimed 26, Coleoptera 3, 



