53 REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL ENTOMOLOGIST. 



(T. JJainbrigge Fletcher, F.L.S., F.E.S., F.Z.S) 



I. Charge and Establishment. 



The Imperial Entomologist held charge of the Section 

 throughout the year ended 30th June 1916. The post of 

 Supernumerary Entomologist remained vacant throughout 

 the year owing to the impossibility of obtaining any suit- 

 able candidate during the war. Mr. Misra, First Assist- 

 ant, was on privilege leave from 24th May until the close of 

 the year under review. Mr. C. C. Ghosh was granted a 

 personal scale of pay of Rs. 200 — 5 — 250. Mr. D. Nowroji 

 was on privilege leave from 25th October to 20th November 

 1915. G. D. Ojha and D. P. Singh, Fieldmen, were 

 employed in the Central Provinces, from the commencement 

 of the year to 9th October and from August to November 

 respectively, in connection with the outbreak of " Maho " 

 (N ephotettioc bipunctatus). 



At the close of the year, volunteers were called for for 

 Fly Control work with the Expeditionary Forces in Meso- 

 potamia. T. V. Subramania, Typist, and P. Narayanan, 

 Artist, of this Section, together with D. P. Singh, Fieldman, 

 on the staff of the Imperial Pathological Entomologist but 

 actually employed in Entomological Section, volunteered 

 and were selected and sent. A quantity of apparatus and 

 four sprayers were also sent to Mesopotamia in compliance 

 with indents received from the Army Department. 



II. Tours. 



The Imperial Entomologist was on tour in Madras from 

 18th August to 4th September 1915, in Coorg from 10th 

 October to 23rd November, in the Central Provinces from 

 14th to 22nd March 1916, and in the North- West Frontier 

 Province from 16th April to 20th June, a total absence 

 from headquarters of 139 days. 



