iNStlTUl^E AND COLLEGE, PUSA, FOR 1909-10. ^7 



School, Simla, the Indian Gardening Association, Calcutta, 

 the Central Agricultural Committee of Madras, the 

 Ceylon Agricultural Society, Colombo, Department of 

 Agriculture, Baroda State, Mycologist and Entomologist, 

 Mysore State and the Director, Educational Section, 

 United Provinces Exhibition, Allahabad. These plates are 

 being utilised in demonstration in all provinces and in 

 vernacular and other publications in Bengal, Eastern 

 Bengal and Assam, Bombay, the "U nited Provinces and the 

 Central Provinces. They are also used in preparing show 

 cases of crop pests for exhibitions, shows, farms, etc. 

 Sample show cases have been prepared and sent out; all 

 Entomological Assistants have been trained in preparing 

 them and it is now only necessary to complete the series of 

 plates to cover all crop-pests, beneficial insects and such 

 useful insects as silk, lac and bees. Trials are being made 

 of coloured lantern slides of these plates to enable lectures 

 to be given at agricultural shows, etc. Assistance was 

 given in preparing show-cases and exhibits for the agri- 

 cultural section of the Lahore Exhibition and a working 

 exhibit of Eri and mulberry silk was sent to the Muzaffer- 

 pur Exhibition. 



Insect Survey. — Less time has been given to the work 

 with the general collection, only new accessions being 

 placed and arranged. The students' working collection 

 has been very much added to. Collections have been sent 

 away for the us3 of authors of coming volumes of the 

 Fauna of India. These include the Collemhola, Ortho- 

 ftera, Malloyhaga, Braconidos and IchneumGnidoe, Neurof- 

 tera, Odonata, Dynastidce, Rutelidce and Cetoniidce, 

 Cantharidce, Curculionidoe, Microlepidoftera, Thysanof- 

 tera, RJiynchota, Heteroftera and Homoftera. Further 

 collections were identified and arranged for the Bombay 

 Natural History Society, and specimens were identified for 

 private collectors, for the Madras Museum and the Quetta 

 Museum. Similar collections were made up and identified 

 for Provincial Agricultural Colleges and a large mass of 

 identified material is available for distribution. 



