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or other of the Dominion Field Laboratories that I have men- 

 tioned. As the need for more work, particularly of a local 

 character, develops, additional attention will no doubt be paid 

 by the Provincial Departments of Agriculture to applied ento- 

 mology. In the meantime they rely on the assistance provided 

 by the Dominion Government. Where Dominion and pro- 

 vincial officers are carrying on investigations in the same 

 province, the heartiest co-operation is enjoyed and arrange- 

 ments are made with a view to preventing duplication of the 

 work and consequent loss of energy. In certain cases investiga- 

 tions are conducted conjointly and this spirit of co-operation 

 is most valuable, particularly in its relation to the attitude of 

 the public towards the work. 



Ceylon. 



For a number of years Mr. E. E. Green, who is widely known 

 by his work on the Scale Insects, was Government Entomol- 

 ogist to the Department of Agriculture of Ce^don and subse- 

 quent to his relinquishing the position in 1911, entomological 

 work on this island was carried on by Mr. A. Rutherford whose 

 recent untimely death was a great loss to colonial entomology. 

 Mr. E. R. Speyer is now in Ceylon investigating the most 

 serious insect pest of the island, namely, the shot-hole borer 

 of tea Xyleborus Jornicatus. Tea is also injured by the tea 

 Tortrix, Capua coffearia, the yellow tea mite, Tarsonemus 

 translucens, and the Termite, Calotermes militaris, which hollows 

 out the stems of living tea bushes. Rubber in Ceylon is 

 attacked by a number of insects, particularly root and other 

 borers. Cocoa, rice and mulberry plants are subject to the 

 attacks of a number of pests. Various species of Termites are 

 injurious to woodwork as in most tropical countries where 

 they occur. 



Fiji. 



When Mr. F. P. Jepson commenced his work as Entomol- 

 ogist to the Department of Agriculture of Fiji in 1909, he found 

 serious problems awaiting his attention, particularly in the 

 matter of insects affecting bananas and cocoanuts. On the 

 island of Viti Levu cocoanut cultivation was practically aban- 

 doned many years ago, owing to the injury done to the leaves 

 by a small moth Leviia?ia iridescens B. B. Since 1912 a change 



