4 PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



have in India and we therefore appreciate all the more the delegation of 

 a special representative of the Government of Egypt. Dr. Gough has 

 brought with him a most interesting paper on Pink Bollworm in Egypt, 

 into which country it was introduced from India, and I am sure that we 

 shall all look forward to hearing it next week. The Government of 

 Cevlon were asked to send their Government Entomologist but unfor- 

 tunately were unable to send a delegate to this Meeting although they 

 intimated that they hoped to be able to do so in future. Ceylon, however, 

 is not left unrepresented, as Mr. R. Senior- White has been sufficiently 

 interested to come all the way from Ceylon to Pusa in order to give us 

 all the information he can about tile insect pests of Ceylon, most of 

 which, I need scarcely add, are identical with ours in India, of which 

 Ceylon is, entomogeographically speaking, only a part. Mr. C. M. 

 Inglis, from Laheria Serai, is also taking part in this Meeting and has 

 sent his collection of wild Indian silkmoths for exhibition. 



On behalf of the Entomological Section of this Institute, I welcome 

 all these delegates to our Meeting and hope that their visit to Pusa may 

 be a pleasant one in every way so that they may carry away pleasant 

 recollections as well as any items of information they may pick up. At 

 the same time, I trust that they will leave us the richer for all the new 

 information concerning insects which they have doubtless brought with 

 them. 



We are to-day commencing the third of our Entomological Meetings, 

 ,of which the first was held here in 1915 and the second in 1917, but the 

 present Meeting differs from the former ones in three respects : — 



(1) It is intended to last for a fortnight instead of only a week and, 

 unless we become seriously pressed for time, we shall hold meetings in 

 the morning only, leaving the afternoons free for the visitors to consult 

 collections and records and to gather any information and to see the 

 place generally. In order that you may do this last I have arranged with 

 the other Heads of Sections at Pusa for convenient dates and times for 

 you to visit their Sections if you care to do so. At the end of this 

 Meeting we shall be able to see whether the one-week or two-week 

 arrangement is preferable and arrange accordingly for future Meetings. 



(2) This Meeting differs from the former two in being of a more official 

 character. The First Meeting in 1915 was arranged on my own initiative 

 in order primarily to get the provincial workers in closer touch with one 

 another and with our work at Pusa and also to link up the work done 

 in the Agricultural Department with that being done by other entomo- 

 logical workers in India, whether their results were applied to agriculture 

 or not. Much the same remarks apply to our Second Meeting. Since 

 then, however, the Tenth Meeting of the Board of Agriculture was held 



