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MR. E. E. GREEN, who died at Camberley on July 2, was well known as an authority on the Coccidæ and as Government entomologist in Ceylon. No ‘expert’ employed by Ceylon Government was so well known to the planting community as ‘Pouchee Green’ as he was called ‘pouchee’ is the Tamil word for an insect. Green, who was born in Ceylon in 1861, was not trained as an entomologist. His father, Mr. John Philip Green, ofColombo, sent him to Charterhouse for his education. Returning to Ceylon in 1880, he became a tea planter. In 1886 the coffee industry in Ceylon was threatened by the green scale bug, a pest which seemed likely to put an end to the Green, who had an inborn love for natural history, turned his attention to this pest and published a paper on the species, which was printed by the Government of Ceylon.
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Mr. E. E. Green. Nature 164, 398 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164398b0
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