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published their fine work on Indian insects. Dr. Bainbrigge 

 Fletcher is in charge, while Mr. Lefroy is in England on 

 leave, working for the Entomological Research Committee- 



The various provinces into which India is divided, have 

 their own Provincial Departments of Agriculture ; and, on 

 most of the staffs, there is a trained native entomologist, 

 generally called " Assistant to the Botanist," or " Experi- 

 mentalist." Several of these men, whom I met, knew a great 

 deal about the local insect-pests of their province. Other men 

 who are identified with economic entomology in India, are 

 Mr. E. P. Stebbing, Forest Entomologist to the Indian 

 Government, who is stationed at Derha Don, and has pub- 

 lished several reports upon forest-insects; and Mr. E. C. 

 Cotes, who, for some years, edited "Indian Museum Notes," 

 containing many contributions to economic entomology. 



Turning to Ceylon, Mr. E. E. Green, Government Ento- 

 mologist, is well known to all workers on Coccidse. He has 

 his laboratories at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Peradenyia 

 He has been engaged, in his leisure time, for some years, upon 

 his great work "The Coccidas of Ceylon," of which four parts 

 have already appeared. 



The countries producing quantities of fruit, vegetables, 

 and field-crops, have always been the foremost in protecting 

 their agricultural interests, and in taking measures to deal 

 with insect-pests. During the last thirty years, many Insect- 

 Pest Bills, Vegetation-Diseases Acts, and Horticultural Regu- 

 lations have been passed, and become law. 



In most cases, all the earlier Acts have been Quarantine 

 Laws, enacted to deal with some special pest ; but latterly, 

 they have been framed to regulate the working of orchards 

 within the States. In a general way, the United States have 

 not passed many laws dealing with the import of produce that 

 might contain pests ; but many of the individual States have 

 made State regulations to deal with special pests, such as the 

 San Jose Scale in Maryland ; or the inspection of orchards 



