INSTITUTE, PUSA, FOR 1916-17 71 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL ENTOMOLOGIST. 

 (T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, R.N., 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, 1917. The post of 

 Supernumerary Entomologist remained vacant throughout 

 the year owing to the impossibility of obtaining any suit- 

 able candidate under present conditions. Mr. Y. Rama- 

 chandra Rao, M.A., Entomological Assistant in Madras,, 

 was deputed from 16th November, 1916, to work under the 

 Imperial Entomologist for a period of two years in the 

 first instance, to investigate the insects which occur on 

 Lantana in India and Burma. Mr. C. S. Misra, First 

 Assistant, was on privilege leave from 1st to 16th July,. 

 1916, and again on privilege leave combined with medical 

 leave from 24th January, 1917, to the close of the year under 

 review. Mr. C. C. Ghosh was on privilege leave from 

 12th October to 15th November, 1916, and Mr. D. Nowroji 

 from 12th October to 16th November, 1916. 



D. P. Singh, Fieldman, P. Narayanan, Artist, and 

 T. V. V. Subramani, Typist, were lent to the Military 

 Department for Fly Control work with the Expeditionary 

 Forces in Mesopotamia. They left Pusa on 5th July, 1916, 

 and returned in November. 



H. H. Prasad, Sericultural Fieldman, was lent through- 

 out the year to the Imperial Agricultural Bacteriologist to 

 assist this officer in his investigations of Pebrine. 



II. Tours. 



The Imperial Entomologist was on tour in Madras from 

 4th to 20th December, in Bengal from 5th to 10th January, 

 and in the Central Provinces from 20th to 29th March. 

 Mr. G. R. Dutt was on tour in Bombay from 26th February 

 to 18th March and was accompanied by Sardar Harchand 

 Singh, a student under training, to study crop-pests. Mr. 



