58 llErUKI {)h THfc: AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL ENTOMOLOGIST 

 FOR THE YEAR 1910-11. 



(T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, R.N., F.E.S., F.Z.S.) 



Charge and Establishment. — Mr. Maxwell Lefroy, tbe 

 Imperial Entomologist, held charge of the section until 

 30th January, when he proceeded on privilege leave and 

 furlough out of India, the work of the section being then 

 continued by me until the close of the period under review. 

 There have been no changes in the permanent establishment 

 during the year. Mr. C. S. Misra, the First Assistant, who 

 was on privilege leave from the commencement of the year 

 to 9th July 1910, had charge of the field-work on the Pusa 

 Farm and Botanical Area and of the lac work, and has 

 given two courses of instruction to students who attended 

 for the short course in lac culture. Besides this, and apart 

 from the personal instruction given By the Imperial Ento- 

 mologist, Mr. Misra has had charge of the Laboratory and 

 field training of the students in General Entomology; in 

 this, as in his other work, he has done admirably. Mr. 

 C. C. Ghosh, the Second Assistant, has been in charge of 

 the insectary and has carried out extremely useful work 

 in rearing and observation of insect pests. The Third 

 Assistant, Mr. G. R. Dutt, has been in charge of the econo- 

 mic collections and records and has carried out the issue 

 of coloured plates and lantern slides; in addition to his 

 own heavy routine work, he has found time to study the 

 Aculeate Ilymenoptera and has prepared a Memoir on the 

 life-history and habits of some of these insects. Mr. D. 

 Nowrojee has been in charge of the general collections of 

 insects and has done very good work in their upkeep and 

 arrangement; this is work which naturally expands auto- 

 matically every year, but Mr. Nowrojee has been able to do 

 original work as well, and has written a Memoir on aqua- 

 tic insects which is in the press at the date of this report. 



