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period during 

 which the dam- 

 age is being done 

 to the trees is 

 from August to 

 March. 



Damage done 

 to the Tree. 



During the 

 first week in 

 March 1907 Mr. 

 H. T. Reilly, the 

 Head Assistant 

 Collector, drew 

 the attention of 

 M r. S. Co X, 

 District Forest 

 Officer, to the 

 damage being 

 done to mango- 

 trees at Chica- 

 cole in Ganjam. 

 The trees in 

 question were 

 graft mangoes, 

 and particularly 

 valuable ones, 

 and well known 

 in the district. 

 Chicacole is 

 famous for its 

 mango topes, the 

 number of trees 

 in the Taluq be- 

 i n g roughly 

 11,100, the area 

 of the topes be- 

 ing estimated at 

 about 3,780 acres. 

 The value of the 

 fruit of these 

 trees, which is 

 exported to Cal- 

 cutta, is consider- 

 able. 



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Fig. 247.— Portion ot the stem of a mango-tree showing larval 

 galleries in sap wood and entrance-holes to pupal chambers of Batoccra 

 titana, Thorns. Ganjam, Madras. 



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