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Under the direction of Dr. Frank Tidswell, Director of the 

 Government Bureau of Microbiology, attention has been 

 paid to insects concerned in the transmission of disease, par- 

 ticularly by Dr. J. B. Cleland, the results of whose investigations 

 have been published in the Annual Reports of the Bureau. 



Victoria. Agriculture in the State is of a general character, 

 the area under cultivation, particularly in cereals, is increasing. 

 Mr. C. French, Jr., is responsible for the entomological work, 

 but little work of an investigatory character appears to be 

 carried on. A large part of Mr. French's time is devoted to 

 the administration of the Fruit and Nursery Inspection 

 ordinances. 



South Australia. About two thirds of the area of the State 

 are farmed or grazed. The climate permits the growing of citrus 

 fruits, almonds and olives and there is a considerable acreage 

 under vineyards. The entomological work of the State is carried 

 on by the Horticultural Division of the State Department of 

 Agriculture at Adelaide. Strict measures are employed to 

 prevent the introduction of the grape phylloxera and of other 

 exotic insect pests by the usual methods of fumigation, etc. 

 Nursery inspectors are also employed to carry on a campaign 

 against the codling moth and scale insects affecting fruit. 



Queensland. The State Department of Agriculture has 

 maintained an Entomologist since 1897 and the name of the 

 Government Entomologist, Mr. Henry Tryon, who has his 

 headquarters at Brisbane, is known to most entomologists. 

 The varied climatic conditions of the State permit the existence 

 of an extensive range of insect pests, affecting in addition 

 to the usual agricultural crops and fruits, such tropical and sub- 

 tropical crops as cotton, sugar, pineapples, bananas, coconuts 

 and coffee. Mr. Tryon has recently returned from a world's 

 tour taken for the purpose of investigating the methods by 

 which the prickly pear may be destroyed. Much of the 

 Entomologist's time is occupied in travelling about the State. 

 Insects affecting sugar cane receive, perhaps, the most attention, 

 a special field station for their investigation being maintained 

 at Gordonvale, near Cairns. In the sugar-cane growing 

 district Grub Pest Destruction Committees exist for the purpose 

 of encouraging the destruction of sugar-cane insects, par- 

 ticularly the beetle Lepidoderfua albohurtum. 



