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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  FOURTH 
  ENTOMOLOGICAL 
  MEETING 
  

  

  earlier 
  years 
  of 
  his 
  service 
  in 
  India 
  he 
  was 
  keenly 
  interested 
  in 
  the 
  col- 
  

   lection 
  and 
  classification 
  and 
  life-histories 
  of 
  Indian 
  Diptera 
  and 
  in 
  1908 
  

   he 
  wrote 
  the 
  sections 
  on 
  Diptera 
  and 
  lice 
  for 
  Lefroy's 
  hidian 
  Insect 
  

   Life 
  (1909). 
  But 
  the 
  visit 
  to 
  India 
  of 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  W. 
  Froggatt, 
  who 
  showed 
  

   that 
  fruit-flies 
  were 
  attracted 
  to 
  the 
  smell 
  of 
  certain 
  oils, 
  led 
  Howlett's 
  

   attention 
  in 
  the 
  direction 
  of 
  tropic 
  responses 
  in 
  insects, 
  and 
  he 
  subse- 
  

   quently 
  published 
  papers 
  on 
  the 
  influence 
  of 
  temperature 
  on 
  the 
  

   biting 
  of 
  mosquitos 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  chemical 
  reactions 
  of 
  fruit-flies. 
  He 
  

   also 
  published 
  several 
  short 
  papers 
  on 
  Sandflies. 
  He 
  was 
  a 
  good 
  artist 
  

   and 
  several 
  of 
  his 
  papers 
  were 
  illustrated 
  by 
  his 
  own 
  drawings. 
  At 
  the 
  

   time 
  of 
  his 
  death 
  he 
  had 
  just 
  completed 
  a 
  book 
  on 
  the 
  control 
  of 
  insect 
  

   pests. 
  His 
  name 
  is 
  commemorated 
  in 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  tick, 
  Haemaphysalis 
  

   howletti, 
  described 
  by 
  Warburton 
  in 
  1913 
  from 
  a 
  hill 
  pony 
  at 
  Eawal- 
  

   pindi, 
  and 
  in 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  Emjpid 
  genus 
  Howlettia 
  described 
  by 
  Brunetti 
  

   in 
  his 
  Fauna 
  volume. 
  

  

  During 
  his 
  earlier 
  years 
  in 
  India, 
  Hewlett 
  suffered 
  from 
  ill-health 
  

   and 
  was 
  absent 
  on 
  sick 
  leave 
  from 
  1909 
  to 
  1911 
  and 
  again 
  absent 
  on 
  leave 
  

   for 
  two 
  years 
  from 
  1915 
  to 
  1917; 
  but 
  latterly 
  he 
  seemed 
  to 
  have 
  recovered 
  

   his 
  health, 
  and 
  his 
  sudden 
  death, 
  at 
  the 
  comparatively 
  early 
  age 
  of 
  43, 
  

   was 
  unexpected 
  and 
  to 
  be 
  regretted. 
  

  

  Charles 
  A. 
  Paiva 
  was 
  born 
  of 
  a 
  respectable 
  Anglo-Indian 
  family 
  

   at 
  Purneah, 
  on 
  30th 
  May 
  1878. 
  He 
  was 
  educated 
  at 
  St. 
  Michsel's 
  High 
  

   School, 
  Kurgi, 
  and 
  at 
  St. 
  Xavier's 
  College, 
  Calcutta, 
  and 
  joined 
  the 
  

   Indian 
  Museum 
  as 
  a 
  Gallery 
  Assistant 
  in 
  July 
  1899. 
  In 
  January 
  1905 
  

   he 
  was 
  appointed 
  Special 
  Entomological 
  Assistant, 
  a 
  post 
  which 
  he 
  

   held, 
  with 
  several 
  interruptions 
  due 
  to 
  ill-health, 
  up 
  to 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  

   his 
  death. 
  For 
  some 
  years 
  he 
  had 
  been 
  threatened 
  with 
  phthisis 
  but, 
  

   notwithstanding 
  a 
  severe 
  illness 
  on 
  more 
  than 
  one 
  occasion, 
  he 
  devoted 
  

   himself 
  with 
  enthusiasm 
  to 
  his 
  work 
  on 
  insects 
  and 
  especially 
  to 
  the 
  

   study 
  of 
  Indian 
  Rhynchota, 
  ou 
  which 
  group 
  he 
  was 
  already 
  beginning 
  

   to 
  make 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  himself 
  when 
  he 
  died 
  suddenly 
  on 
  11th 
  August 
  

   1919. 
  The 
  various 
  papers 
  from 
  his 
  pen 
  will 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  Records 
  of 
  

   the 
  Indian 
  Museum 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  Journal 
  of 
  the 
  Asiatic 
  Society 
  of 
  Bengal. 
  

  

  The 
  late 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  L. 
  Mitter 
  after 
  completing 
  his 
  course 
  in 
  the 
  Veterinary 
  

   College, 
  Belgachia, 
  Calcutta, 
  joined 
  the 
  Veterinary 
  Department, 
  and 
  

   prior 
  to 
  his 
  coming 
  to 
  Pusa 
  was 
  holding 
  the 
  post 
  of 
  a 
  Veterinary 
  

   Assistant 
  at 
  Patna. 
  He 
  was 
  subsequently 
  appointed 
  to 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  

   Entomological 
  posts 
  sanctioned 
  to 
  the 
  late 
  Mr. 
  Howlett 
  by 
  the 
  Indian 
  

   Research 
  Fund 
  Association. 
  After 
  working 
  in 
  this 
  Institute 
  for 
  about 
  

   three 
  years 
  he 
  went 
  to 
  Assam 
  to 
  assist 
  Major 
  Mackie, 
  and 
  subsequently 
  

   his 
  services 
  were 
  transferred 
  to 
  Kasauli 
  where 
  he 
  came 
  in 
  touch 
  with 
  

   Major 
  Christophers 
  with 
  whose 
  help 
  and 
  guidance 
  (to 
  which 
  he 
  frequently 
  

  

  