REPORT OF THE SOCIETY 21 



Kursk Entomological Bureau: — 



Established in 1913, this entomlogical bureau studied mostly the orchard garden pests, chiefly 

 the Ap]ids, Phytoptns pyri and Codling Moth. 



Voronezh Entomological Station: — 



Established in 1912. Observations made in 1912 proved that many insect pests were present, 

 the most important ones in relation to agriculture being Anisojdia, Hessian and Frit fly, wireworms, 

 cutworms and Phlyctaenodes sticticalis. 



Among the insects that injure stored corn, Calnndra grannrio attracted the Station's special 

 attention from the first year of its e>istence. 



Orel Entomological Bureau: — 



This bureau has existed since 1912, and its personal staff consists of an entomological instruc- 

 tor and a preparator. As most complaints were aroused by the harm caused by Elateridse, the bxireau 

 made one of its chief problems the study of these pests, particularly Agriotes lineatus L. Besides 

 this, the bureau made special studies of Euxoa segetum, on the genus \pion,Sheimatohiahrumata, 

 and others. 



Poltava Entomological Bureau: — 



An entomological research experimental institution has existed in the province of Poltava since 

 1910, namely the entomological section of the experimental station in Poltava (1). The work of this 

 section could not, however, satisfy the growing needs of the peasants for help on the practical ques- 

 tions of applied entomology. The nature of the work would not permit the staff to leave the sta- 

 tion to satisfy the demands of institutions or of individuals. This necessity was realised, and there 

 arose the question of inviting an entomologist who would be able to help the population to con- 

 trol the insect pests, and who could make a survey of the pests of the province. Accordingly in 

 1914 an entomological bureau was established there. 



According to the agreement of the Zemstvo of Poltava with the Poltava Agricultural Society , 

 the experimental station offered its premises and its entomological laboratory to the bureau, which 

 from the very beginning made the fullest possible survey of the pests and diseases of vegetation is 

 the province! The Bureau organized for this purpose, first of all, an extensive system of corres- 

 pondents, and by the end of 1914 the number of correspondents reached 600. The popular papers 

 pubUshed were of service in the work of consultation and for the popularizing of entomology. 

 These papers were of three kinds; (a) the type that informed the peasants regarding certain pests 

 and rational means for destroying them. It also indicated the apparatus and materials used for 

 destroying these pests and ment'oned firm and warehouses where they could be obtained; (b) 

 In the second type, the bureau showed the method of protecting particular cultivated plants from 

 their pests, giving the same kind of information as the first type, but also summing up all the 

 given facts about several pests of one plant; (c) The third type is the periodical pamphlets 

 which describe seasonal measures for destroying the pests. 



Kjazan Entomologcal Bureau: — 



Established in 1915. Among the pests the bureau studied Aporia crataegi L., Psylla mali 

 Fcrst, Anthonomus pomorum L., Phyllotretae, Euxoa segetum Schiff. In 1915, the entomological 

 bureau made observations on the pests of clover, namely Apion. 



4. South Western Region: — 



In this region there are two permanent entomological institutions: the entomological station 

 for protecting plants in Kie . ; the entomological bureau of the Zemsvo of Volyn. 

 Kiev entomological Station was instituted in 190 1. (2). 



(1) Organized and condtu^tod by the late N. Kurdjiemov, most brilliant of Russian entomologists. 



(2) Under Profe.ssor V.P.Pospelov, at present Director of the Central Bureau of Entomology, Petrograd. 



