10 



\ 



Kirbyi Brulle, Hym. 672, pi. 48, fig. 6,° ( = var. amcricana). 



La Portci St. Farg. ; Norton, Trans, Am. Ent. Soc, I, 41'' (= var. amerkand) 



Inctifera Klug; Norton, ibid, 41,°° (=var. americana). 



ulmi Peck; Norton, ibid, I, 41,°° (=var. americana). 



Viardi St. Farg, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., II, 454,*^ (=var. americana). 



(The symbol after the numbers 42, etc., in this note signifies female, except 

 in Kirbyi, La Portci when it signifies male, and in hictifcra and ulmi both male 

 and female. — Ed.) 



THO^IAS \V. FYLES. 



Ottawa, ]\Iarch 23, 1914. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 

 By W. Lochhead, ^^lacdonald College. 

 Gentlemen : — 



This is the sixth time I have had the honour of welcoming you to our An- 

 nual Meeting and of presiding over your deliberations. Organized in June, 1908, 

 by a small group of enthusiastic workers who saw the need for gathering and 

 disseminating information relating to those insect and fungous enemies of plants 

 of the Province of Quebec, that cause much loss every year, the Quebec Society 

 for the Protection of Plants is, I believe, doing a most valuable work. With the 

 help of the Provincial Department of Agriculture, the Society is enabled to meet 

 at least once a year and to publish an Annual Report containing the many ad- 

 mirable papers read at the Annual Meeting. I am pleased to state that this Re- 

 port has been well received, not only by fruit-growers and others in the province 

 interested in the protection of plants, but also by scientific workers in other prov- 

 inces and countries. The practical, popular treatment of the injurious enemies 

 of plants meets with the approval of all who read the Reports. 



It is a matter of regret, however, that there are so few active workers in the 

 province to help the Society in its commendable endeavour. But this condition 

 is not peculiar to onr Society ; it is the experience of nearly all Societies of a sim- 

 ilar nature that a few members do most of the work. Our membership will in 

 all probability remain small, but that is no reason why the influence of our So- 

 ciety will not continue to increase as the results of our labours become known 

 through the Annual Reports and the investigatious of its members. 



We appreciate the kindly yet active interest taken in our work by the Scien- 

 tific Stafif of the Divisions of Entomology and Botany of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, Ottawa, by their presence at these annual meetings. Our problems are 

 their problems, and by co-operative action greater success can be achieved than if 

 we worked independently. 



To the Fourth Annual Report, issued in 1912, was published as an append'ix: 

 "A Preliminary List of the Lepidoptera of Quebec", compiled mainly by Albert 

 F. Winn, of Westmount. This valuable Report was commended highly by Ento- 

 mologists everywhere. It was the intention of the Executive that other Lists re- 

 lating to the remaining Orders of Insects would soon follow, but the labour of 

 compilation, being arduous, has been slow. It is hoped, however, that a Prelimin- 

 ary List of the Diptera will be ready for publication in the forthcoming Report. 



The Executive has also in mind similar Lists of the Fungi of Quebec, but 

 as yet little progress has been made in this direction. Perhaps in another year we 

 may have something definite to report. 



