6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
was represented by Mr. Gravely, who, as most of you know, is the Assis- 
tant Superintendent in charge of the Entomological Section of the 
Museum ; I had looked forward to seeing Mr. Gravely amongst us. 
again this year, but unfortunately he is unable to attend, as he is away 
on an extended tour in the Southern Shan States. On the other hand, 
Mr. Andrews, the Entomologist to the Indian Tea Association, who: 
attended two years ago, is here again today and will doubtless have 
some interesting things to tell us about Helopeltis and other Tea Pests ; 
Mr. Anstead, the Deputy Director of Agriculture in the Planting Districts 
of Southern India, has also come to give us the benefit of his experience: 
with pests of tea, coffee, and rubber in Southern India ; Dr. Coleman, 
the Director of Agriculture in Mysore, is also here and will doubtless be: 
able to attend some of our Meetings dealing with the crops in which he. 
is most interested ; and finally, Mr. Robertson Brown, the Agricultural 
Officer at Peshawar, though not present to-day, will be here later on in 
the week and will doubtless tell us something about Fruit Pests and 
other noxious insects of the North-West Frontier Province. 
At our last Meeting I made a few remarks which perhaps I may 
repeat, as some of you now present were not at the last Meeting two 
years ago. I said then :— 
“The relations of Pusa with the Provinces are peculiar and in 
many ways unsatisfactory, but, so far as Entomology is 
concerned, there is a distinct raison d’étre for a Central Insti- 
tute which will occupy itself with such items as identification 
of insects, working out of lifehistories (with which 1s included 
the preparation, printing and distribution of figures and 
coloured plates and lantern slides), the centralization of 
records both in the way of specimens and literature, and 
the publication of collected results based on work not only at 
Pusa but in the Provinces and also outside of India. This 
leaves the Provinces free to give their time to teaching, and 
to trial and demonstration of control methods. This is 
an ideal scarcely realized in practice. But as a matter of 
practice I would particularly appeal to all the Entomological 
Assistants to keep in touch with Pusa and to send in speci- 
mens of all their pests so that there may be as complete 
a record as possible at the Central Institute. Specimens 
will be identified as far as possible and duplicates returned 
after naming, but we would particularly ask for a fair 
series of specimens in good condition. Sometimes specimens 
are sent in in very bad condition, and I lately received for 
naming a single specimen of a moth (ar, rather, the remains of 
