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MONDAY, August 5th, 2 p.m. 



SECTION I.— ECONOMIC AND Px\THOLOGICAL. 



President: L. O. Howard. 

 Vice-President : R. Newstead. 

 Secretary : H. Scott. 



On taking the chair, L. O. Howard said that when he entered 

 the room he was surprised to find that nearly every seat was taken, 

 whereas in a strictly Entomological Congress he would have 

 supposed that other sections would have been more attractive. 

 This indicated to him very strongly the rapidly growing interest 

 in Economic Entomology, and the further fact that the excellent 

 work done by the economic workers in the past few years had 

 appealed even to those engaged in pure science. He recalled the 

 fact that only a few years ago morphologists and systematists 

 hardly considered the economic workers as scientific men at all, 

 and he congratulated the economists in the change of sentiments 

 which their sound work had brought about. 



The President then called upon Sir Daniel Morris to read 

 the first paper. 



On behalf of Mr. W. A. Ballou, Sir Daniel Morris read a 

 paper entitled : 



Some Entomological Problems in the W. Indies. 



Consideration of the entomological problems presented in 

 W. Indies since 1899. The sugar cane pest, Phytalus smithi. 

 Root-boring larvse. Termites in sugar cane in St. Kitts. Various 

 cotton pests considered. Certain pests controlled by their 

 natural enemies. Polistes annularis as a control of the cotton 

 worm {Alabama argillacea Hiibn.) (cf. Vol. 11., p. 306). 



