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therefore paired with wild males which are attracted to them, the 

 females being usually tied to a twig. Owing to the facts that there 

 is thus no real control over pairing, so that it is impossible to be 

 eertain of retaining any particular quality of silk, and that the 

 caterpillars feed in the open exposed to the attacks of innumer- 

 able enemies, tasar silk is not an industry which is capable of 

 much development in face of the competition of well-organized 

 sericultural industries in other countries. The cocoon is reelable 

 and the moth must therefore be killed and not allowed to emerge 

 as the thread is spoilt and unreelable alter the moth has eclosed. 



{pis dorsata builds its comb. The Kadiar Rocks in the 



own here and 

 the hi Author's 



are found throughout Southern India in a wild state and 

 produce a considerable quantity of honey and wax. the right of 

 collecting these in the jungle being usually leased out by the 

 Dep irtment to jungle tribes, many of whom make a regular 

 -s of raiding b al particular times of the year. 



There are three kinds of true honey-bees, all of which occur 

 commonly both in the plains and in the hills. They art 

 (i) the large Rock Bee (Apis dorsata, - 1 1/"). 



(21 the Indian Bee (Apis indica, see figure llS), and 

 (3) the Little Bee (Apis florea, see figure MQ). 

 Of these Apis dorsata usually occurs in colonies composed of 

 several or many nests each of which builds a large single comb 

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