PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 3 



kindly words lie lias used regarding onr past Meetings and this present 

 one. 



It is once again my privilege, on belialf of the Staff of the Entomologi- 

 cal Section of this Institute, to welcome to Pusa the many delegates who 

 have come here from all parts of India, and even on this occasion from 

 Ceylon and Egypt. AVe have at this Meeting a larger and more represen- 

 tative gathering than at either of our previous Meetings. Assam, Bengal, 

 Bihar and Orissa, the United Provinces, the North-West Frontier Pro- 

 vince, Bombay, the Central Provinces and Madras have all sent one 

 or more delegates of the Agricultural Service and only the Punjab and 

 Burma are unrepresented, although Mr. K. D. Shroff has contributed 

 a long list of papers on Burmese insect and other pests. Hyderabad, 

 which has not been represented before at our Meetings, has sent Mr. 

 "Wakefield, the Director-General of Industries, Agriculture and Commerce. 

 Baroda is also represented by Mr. Patel ; Central India by Mr. S. 

 Higmnbottom, Director of Aa;riculture, Gwalior, and Mr. M. Zahar- 

 uddin, Forest Officer ; Patiala by Mr. Harchand Singh, Superin- 

 tendent of Dairy Farms, and Mysore and Travancore have each sent 

 an entomological delegate. From the Forest Department w^e have Mr. 

 C. Beeson, the Forest Zoologist, who has promised us several papers, 

 amongst which we shall all look forward to hearing that on some 

 problems in forest insect control. Mr, Osmaston, Director of the Forest 

 Research Institute at Dehra Dun, had also intended to have been present 

 here to-day, but was unfortunately prevented at the last moment. 

 The Indian Tea Association has very kindly permitted the attend- 

 ance of their Entomologist, Mr. E. A. Andrews, who has promised us 

 two papers on Tea Pests and another on the control of iiisect pests. 

 The Bengal Government have also permitted the attendance of Dr. 

 C. A. Bentley, their Sanitary Commissioner, and of Dr. Baini Prasad, 

 who will not be able to attend this meeting but has promised to 

 send us a paper about aquatic insects as destroyers of fish in 

 India. Portuguese India has sent a delegate in the person of Captain 

 Froilano de Mello who has contributed a paper descriptive of those 

 curious protozoal parasites, the Trichonymphids, found in extraordinary 

 numbers in some species of Termites. Portugal, I may remind you, 

 is a very old ally of ours and we therefore welcome Captain Froilano 

 •de Mello to our Meeting because he is present not only in his scientific 

 capacity, since his presence is a mark of the amity existing between the 

 British and Portuguese nations. Dr. Lewis H. Gough, Director of the 

 Entomological Section, has been sent all the way from Egypt especially 

 to represent his Government at this Meeting. The problems of entomo- 

 logical research in Egypt are in many ways similar to those which we 



