62 REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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



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 I. — Charge and Establishment. 



Mr. H. Maxwell-Lefroy resigned his appointment as 

 Imperial Entomologist from 1st December 1912 and I was 

 nominated to succeed him and my services were transferred 

 to the Government of India from that date but I was 

 retained temporarily in Madras until relieved there, so that 

 it was not until 1st. December 1913 that I actually took over 

 charge as Imperial Entomologist. Mr. A. J. Grove, Super- 

 numerary Entomologist, who was in temporary charge of 

 the section pending my return from Madras, was lent to 

 the Punjab from 27th January 1914 to carry out work on 

 grain pests and cotton bollworm, and remained in the 

 Punjab until the close of the year under report. Mr. C. S. 

 Misra, First Assistant, was on duty throughout the year 

 and has carried out his work in a uniformly satisfactory 

 manner; he has given his attention especially to the examin- 

 ation and record of the crop-pests of the cultivated areas of 

 the Pusa Estate, to the collection of information regarding 

 fruit-pests, and to the study of cotton boll worms and their 

 parasites, of Pyrilla and of Aleurodidce. Mr. C. C. Ghosh 

 has been employed in the usual routine work of the rearing 

 of insects in the Insectary. Mr. G. R. Dntt, as in previous 

 years, has looked after the economic records and the 

 Hymenoftera Collection. Mr. D. Nowroji has looked after 

 the General Collection of Insects, especially the Coleoptera. 

 The duties of these two assistants must naturally tend to 

 increase considerably every year as the collections arid 

 records are augmented. Mr. M. N. De is borne especially 

 for Sericultural duties and has been in charge of the silk 

 work during the year and has carried out his duties with 

 zeal and intelligence. 



