68 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 



REPORT OF THE IMPERIAL ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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



I. Administration. 



The Imperial Entomologist held charge of the Section 

 throughout the year ended 30th June, 1920. The services 

 of Mr. M. Afzal Husain, M.Sc, Supernumerary Entomo- 

 logist, were transferred to the Punjab Department of Agri- 

 culture from 16th September, 1919, since which date the 

 post of Supernumerary Entomologist has remained vacant. 

 Mr. G. R. Dutt, B.A., was appointed Personal Assistant to 

 the Imperial Entomologist from 1st May, 1920. 



II. Trainin 



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Mr. G. D. Austin, a student deputed by the Ceylon De- 

 partment of Agriculture, was received for training on 1st 

 June, 1919, and completed the ordinary course on 31st 

 March, 1920, but has been given an extension up to Sep- 

 tember 1920. 



Three students completed a short course in sericulture 

 and two were under instruction ' at the end of the year. 

 Two students sent from the Agricultural College at Sabour 

 were also given instruction not amounting to a regular 

 course. 



III. Insect Pests. 



Cotton. The species of Acrocercops referred to and 

 figured in last year's Report has since been named by Mr. E. 

 Meyrick as A . zygonoma, n. sp. 



The question of determining the relative immunity of 

 varieties of cotton was continued. Germination of the 

 p)a,nts was very satisfactory but at the close of the year the 

 e3 1 lerimental cotton plants suffered from drought and heatV 



