Ofi REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



were prepared for the Forestry Court, where this exhibit 

 was awarded a gold medal, and, in the absence of the Se- 

 cond Imperial Entomologist, an exhibit of four show-cases 

 was prepared for the Medical Court by the Supernumerary 

 Entomologist to show the relations between insects and such 

 diseases as Malaria, Enteric Fever, Plague, Myiasis, 

 Cholera, Sandfly Fever, Yellow Fever, etc. I attended the 

 Agricultural Conference held in January at the Allahabad 

 Exhibition, and read a paper discussing practical remedies 

 against two of the most destructive insects of the United 

 Provinces. 



Steady progress has been made in the preparation and 

 issue of coloured plates illustrative of insect-pests of crops, 

 and these have been distributed to all Provincial Agricul- 

 tural Departments, to Museums, Agricultural Societies anH 

 numerous Educational Establishments. These plates are 

 available for demonstration and for use in illustration of 

 popular articles in vernacular and other Provincial jour- 

 nals. Show-cases were prepared and sent to the Dasehra 

 Exhibition in Mysore. Coloured lantern slides of sub- 

 iects selected from the coloured plates of crop-pests have 

 been prepared and a large series of these is now available, 

 besides series on Silk and Lac. 



Insect Survey. — Comparatively very little time has been 

 devoted to the general collections, but steady progress has 

 been made, a large number of accessions having been added 

 and arranged. Considerable additions have been made to 

 the Students' Working Collections. Collections have been 

 made up and sent out for identification by specialists and 

 to authors of volumes in preparation for the Fauna of India 

 Series: these include Collemholn, OrtlioptJ'ra, Teftinidw, 

 Termitidm, Neuroptera, Odonnta, Braronidce, and Irhnen- 

 wonidm IIympnoj)tera Anileata Dunastidm, Pufelido'. and 

 Cetoniadw, Curculwnida>, Cleridm. Microlepidojkfera, 

 Thysanoj)tera and Rhynchota. Collections have been 

 identified for Provincial Assistants, the Indian Museum, 

 the "Bombav Natural Historv Societv's Museum, the Quetta 

 Museum and for many private collectors, 



