The medal, which may be awarded each year by The Professional Institute of the Civil Service of Canada for the most outstanding contribution by professional or technical workers or groups of workers belonging to the Dominion or Provincial Civil Services in Canada, in science, economics, administration, and associated fields of endeavour, was presented on November 28th to H. L. Seamans and those associated with him at the Dominion Entomological Laboratory at Lethbridge, Alberta, in recognition of the work upon the control of the pale western cutworm, Agrotis orthogonia Morr.

Most of the information in regard to termites has come as a result of efforts to combat their destructive activities. In these studies an amazing story of social organization and biological adaptation that has fascinated students in sociology, political science, and engineering, as well as entomologists, has been unfolded.

In view of the known lack of effectiveness and doubtful value of many of the materials cited in literature as being of value as repellents for biting flies, a series of experiments was carried out at the direction of the Dominion Entomologist, during the past three seasons, with the object of determining which of the many materials recommended as repellents might be the most effective and which the most lasting in effect.

American records of virens Shrank as based on specimens of kendalli Kby. which is a well characterized species and not a synonym or variety of virens as stated by some authors. The range of kendalli is transcontinental, and extends from the northern limits of the subartic forests south to Maine, the Lake Superior region, the prairies, and central British Columbia.

During the first week of August, 1938, my assistant in British Columbia, Mr. J. K. Jacob, was fortunate in being able to join a party which was penetrating into the little known and rather inaccessible mountain region west of Lytton and the Fraser river. A start was made at the junction of Kwieek Creek and the Fraser river, near the railway station of Boston Bar, about 10 miles south of Lytton; from here the route followed up the creek to Blue Lake situated at an altitude of 7000 feet, at the base of Antimony Mt., where the main camp was pitched.