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on the occasion of their last visit to Pusa. Mr. Chima- 

 swami Pillai, sent by the Madras Government for instruc- 

 tion in methods of illustrating, finished his course and 

 returned to Madras. 



3. Work on Publications. — That portion of the book, 

 " Indian Insect Life," which relates to diptera and the 

 sections on mallophaga, anoplura and cimicidse, was 

 completed, and the necessary illustrations prepared by the 

 Second Imperial Entomologist or under his supervision, as 

 were also a large number of the illustrations for the body 

 of the work and other illustrations and maps required for 

 memoirs and for the A qricultural Journal of India. 



The business of seeing the A gricultural Journal of India 

 through the press, and all work connected with the repro- 

 duction, etc., of the illustrations in zinco, half-tone, 

 lithography and the three colour process, was also under- 

 taken. 



In February last the Second Imperial Entomologist 

 acted as Secretary to the Board of Agriculture at the 

 I*^agpur meeting and prepared for publication the pro- 

 ceedings of the meeting. 



The supervision and direction of the artists' staff of 

 the Institute have been undertaken, and besides the work 

 done for the various sections at Pusa, assistance has been 

 given to the civil veterinary departments and to the 

 Bombay Natural History Society in preparation of special 

 illustrations of blood-sucking flies and of living snakes. 



4. Entomological Work. — Work was done on the rice, 

 tur pod and pea-stem flies. The first named was found to 

 be doing serious damage to wheat (planted after rice) in 

 Sibi, Baluchistan, and Mr. Muhabat Singh was sent to 

 investigate and report on the outbreak. Work was done 

 in fruit flies, and an attempt to check the annual attack 

 of these pests on the peaches grown at Pusa, was this year 

 so far successful that the period of severity was postponed 

 until the Imperial Economic Botanist was enabled to 

 complete the experiments in progress. It is unlikely that 



