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PEdCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 



Punjab is of course by no means the only, or even the largest, cotton- 

 growing Province within the Indian Empire, the total area under cotton 

 in the various provinces of India in 1917-18* being : — 



Rajputana 435,000 



Sind 245,000 



54,000 

 67,000 

 54,000 

 22,000 

 17,000 

 10,000 

 19,000 

 14,000 

 12,000 



4,035,000 



In all these areas Bollworms (usually all the three species) occur and 

 levy an annual toll on the cotton-crop which in normal years may be 

 estimated at anything betweeji twenty and fifty millions of rupees. 

 The damage done b)^ the Bollworms is very insidious and the ordinary 

 cultivator, although he is aware that damage is being done, is unable 

 to calculate the loss, and this accounts for the way he puts up with the 

 loss patiently from year to year. In the case of a leaf-eating insect he 

 sees the leaves and shoots of the plants being devoured and he at once 



* Estimates of Area ani Yield of Pri. 

 of Statistics, N >. 766; 1918). 



ipal Crops in, India, 1917-lS (Department 



