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In Bombay there are now only two Entomological Assist- 

 ants employed, one as Lecturer in the Agricultural College 

 at Poona, the other in the Northern Division of the Presi- 

 dency. The Third Assistant, who was stationed at Dhar- 

 war in the Southern Division, has been transferred to the 

 Agricultural Section and his post has not been filled. 

 Special attention has been paid to the occurrence and con- 

 trol of Schcenobius bvpunctifer, which is a serious pest of 

 rice. 



In the Central Provinces two Entomological Assist- 

 ants are employed, one for teaching at the Agricultural 

 College at Nagpur, the other for fieldwork and demon- 

 stration. The latter made numerous notes on insect pests 

 and exhibited show-cases and lectured and demonstrated 

 control-methods at numerous Agricultural shows to audi- 

 ences aggregating about nine thousand cultivators. Large 

 numbers of Canthecona furcellata, a Pentatomid Bug 

 predaceous on caterpillars, were bred and liberated in cotton 

 and gram fields to check attacks on these crops by 

 caterpillars. 



In the United Provinces, demonstration was made in the 

 Farrukhabad District of methods of storing seed potatoes 

 to avoid attack of the Potato Moth (Phthorimcea oper- 

 culella) which is now widely distributed in these provinces, 

 though as yet it has apparently not reached the Hill 

 Districts. 



In the Punjab the work done has mainly been on pests 

 of cotton and stored grain. Living specimens of Rhogas, 

 a Braconid parasite of the cotton bollworm (Earias), have 

 been supplied from time to time from Pusa. 



In the North- West Frontier Province one Entomological 

 Assistant works under the Agricultural Officer. The 

 sugarcane crop is reported as badly infested with borers this 

 year, over 50,000 egg-clusters having been picked from one 

 experimental plot of six acres. Gelechia gossypiella is 

 stated to have done considerable damage to last year's 



