REPORT OF THE SECOND IMPERIAL ENTO- 

 MOLOGIST FOR THE YEARS 1907-09. 



(F. M. HowLETT, B.A., F.E.S.) 



1. Chm'ge and Establishment. — Mr. Hewlett arrived 

 at Pusa in December 1907 and has been in charge of the 

 section since. The staff consists of Mr. D. Nowrojee, First 

 Assistant, with Messrs. P. G. Patel and H. N. Sharma, 

 special Fly Assistants. Of these, Mr. Nowrojee carries on 

 his previous work on Coleoptera, and Mr. Muhabat Singh 

 has been detailed in his stead for work on the flies affecting 

 crops and fruit. Mr. P. G. Patel has made a number of 

 original observations on ticks, sand flies and muscidse, and 

 has had charge of the general collection ; Mr. H. N. Sharma 

 has been occupied with the life-histories of mosquitos and 

 investigation of their natural enemies. All have done good 

 work in their particular branches. 



2. Training. — Since diptera constitute a special group 

 of insects requiring special methods and careful mani- 

 pulation, a considerable amount of attention has been 

 given to the instruction of the staff in these methods. Mr. 

 P. G. Patel was sent to Beigachia, at the request of the 

 Civil Veterinary Department, Bengal, to give a course of 

 instruction relating to biting flies injurious to cattle. 

 Messrs. P. N. Das and Syed Mohomed Raza Husain, of the 

 civil veterinary departments of Bengal and the United 

 Provinces, respectively, came to Pusa for a course of train- 

 ing in methods of observing and collecting pests and para- 

 sites of cattle and other stock. As a part of the course 

 given to agricultural students in entomology, lectures 

 were given on diptera and on blood-sucking insects, special 

 attention being paid to fruit flies and cattle parasites. 

 A short series of lectures on more purely economic lines 

 was given to the provincial entomological assistants 



