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Sleeping Sickness Commission, on which Sir David Bruce 

 has been the principal worker. The entomological aspect of 

 the question was not specially studied until comparatively 

 recently, but now it is receiving more of the attention it deserves, 

 and I have referred to the fact that the Imperial Bureau of 

 Entomology has two investigators at work in Uganda, namely, 

 Mr. W. F. Fiske, formerly of the United States Bureau of 

 Entomolo'gy, and Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter, who have already 

 added substantially to our knowledge of the bionomics of the 

 Tse-tse flies. In the adjacent British territory of Nyasaland, 

 Dr. W. A. Lamborn of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology is 

 studying the Tse-tse fly problem. 



British East Africa. The Department of Agriculture has 

 as its Chief Entomologist Mr. T. J. Anderson, who is stationed 

 at Nairobi, the headquarters of the government of the Pro- 

 tectorate. He has an assistant, a Plant Import Inspector and a 

 staff of native collectors. The careful examination of all 

 plants, seeds, etc., entering the Protectorate is undertaken by 

 the Plant Import Inspector under the Regulations of the Disease 

 of Plants Prevention Ordinance, 1910. There are special 

 regulations relating to coffee and cotton. Facilities are pro- 

 vided at the Government Experimental Farm where the 

 entomological laboratory is situated for the carrying on of 

 entomological investigations. The most troublesome insect 

 pest perhaps is the coconut beetle {Oryctes monoceros). The 

 antestia bug (Antestia variegata) is very injurious to the 

 coffee plants. Experiments are now being carried out on the 

 control of the latter pest by an Ichneumon parasite. 



Egypt. Previous to the creation of a Department of Agri- 

 culture in 1910, the Ministry of Interior and the Khedivial 

 Society of Agriculture undertook the study of insect pests, 

 Mr. F. C. Willcocks being the Entomologist of the Society and 

 the Yearbooks of the Society contain the results of his numerous 

 investigations, particularly on the Egyptian cotton worm 

 (Prodenia litiira) and the Egyptian cotton boll- worm (Earias 

 insulana). Insects affecting cotton have received the greatest 

 attention on account of the increasing importance of that crop. 

 Under the Ministry of Agriculture which was organized in 1913, 

 the cotton worm, boll worm and locust campaigns are 

 carried out by the Administrative Division independently of 



