78 REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL PATHOLOGICAL 



ENTOMOLOGIST 



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



I. — Administration. 



I was in charge of the section throughout the year, but 

 spent two months in September and October on privilege 

 leave. 



Of the work which is summarised in this report, I owe 

 not a little to the stimulus of frequent correspondence, 

 conversation and collaboration with many medical officers 

 more or less directly engaged in entomological work. The 

 probable severance of these relations in the near future is 

 to me a source of regret. 



II. — Veterinary Work. 



In January I circularized all Provincial Directors, 

 enquiring whether there was any veterinary research in 

 progress which I could assist from the entomological side, 

 or any special direction in which they would suggest that 

 entomological investigation should be prosecuted- The 

 majority replied that the services of an entomologist were 

 not at present required; Madras, Burma and the Centra] 

 Provinces referred to the collection of possible Surra- 

 carriers, and the Central Provinces also mentioned the 

 parasites of sheep. 



Major Holmes proposes an investigation of the insect 

 carriers of Surra at Kathgodam. An assistant has been 

 given special training in order that he may assist by carry- 

 ing on the rearing of Tabanidas and other blood-sucking 

 Diptera which will be required in this enquiry. 



A large collection of Ticks, mostly from Veterinary 

 Officers of the different provinces, has been consigned to 

 Professor Nuttall at Cambridge, there to be examined and 

 identified in connection with Professor Nuttall's mono- 

 graphs on the subject which are now appearing. 



